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About a year ago, we told you about the fan-made RPG Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, which is a spiritual cousin to the 16-bit classic Barkley: Shut Up and Jam!. I LOL'd; you LOL'd. We moved on. Now Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa is available for download.
 
The story follows an aged Charles Barkley. It was his insanely powerful Chaos Dunk that led to the outlawing of basketball and the massacre of the world's greatest ballers. Twelve years later in 2053, Neo New York is hit by a Chaos Dunk, and Barkley is blamed for the destruction. This forces him to go underground to escape Michael Jordan and his B-Ball Removal Department. He sets out on a journey to find who was behind this Chaos Dunk as well as discover the secrets behind the terrorist organization B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S.
 
The game looked pretty nifty last year, but it has since seen a bit of a visual upgrade thanks to the power of DX10. I'm only about one hour into the game, but I've laughed about 20 times in that hour. No one should expect a next-gen RPG -- this is RPGMaker, folks. What you can expect is a silly, fun game with a battle system that is so stupid that its actually brilliant. 
 
If battling through a post-cyberpocalyptic world with basketball powers is your thing, you can download Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden at Tales of Game's temporary page.

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Andrex's Avatar
Andrex at 01/24/2008 11:29
IVe seen Sadie G cover this already.. but now interested actually trying it soon.. after a finish columbine RPG
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moonkid at 01/24/2008 11:30
The game looks amazingly fun and yeah it was C-blogged yesterday.
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martinine at 01/24/2008 11:32
This game is amazingly fun
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timtheterrible at 01/24/2008 11:48
Fun this game looks
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CaffeinePowered at 01/24/2008 11:48
Sweet
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Holyetheline at 01/24/2008 12:07
I'm stoked to play this crap.
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F Whipple at 01/24/2008 12:51
the prenise is so bad that it's genius
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Cheeburga at 01/24/2008 12:51
Kick ass.
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Snaileb at 01/24/2008 12:52
If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

Plus Ecto Cooler is an item! How cool!
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Rucksack at 01/24/2008 13:02
Jaming!
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UreshiiShonen at 01/24/2008 13:20
I loved the original demo. It's also cool how the basic attacks require skill and timing to deal good damage with.
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ArrestedDeveloper at 01/24/2008 14:06
I actually downloaded this earlier this week, it's pretty funny. The only part I don't like about it is every time you save you get a speech on how Japanese developers are better than western developers and that madden is stupid, it gets a little old.
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UMF Skibum at 01/24/2008 14:17
Man, this is my lucky day. I thought they stopped making games aimed at me after Shaq Fu and Michael Jordan in Chaos in the Windy City.
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Im OK at 01/24/2008 15:38
I played the demo of this, and it was pretty cool. I'll be checking this one out soon.
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Batthink at 01/24/2008 16:42
That looks good. Charles Barkley should promo this. :O)
DryvBy's Avatar
DryvBy at 01/24/2008 17:08
This is awesome. Better than Chuck Norris.
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Pacman at 01/24/2008 17:35
Heard about this the other day and downloaded it. I'll probably get to it around mid-March though.

But hey, it looks cool.
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Hamsizzla at 01/24/2008 18:43
That is fucking brilliant. I bet if you had slapped the word portal on it everyone else on the site would think so too!
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enfaw at 01/24/2008 18:45
anyone ever seen space jam?
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Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain at 01/24/2008 20:02
In before Lemon and Riser.

Holy shit.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 01/24/2008 20:11
Best game ever?
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MechaMonkey at 01/24/2008 20:47
This if proof there is a God.
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 01/25/2008 01:30
Oh lawd. I finally got this running right and it's awesome.
Fading Star's Avatar
Fading Star at 01/25/2008 07:17
.....
:D
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