The erroneous apostrophe is entirely intentional. It's just this ridiculous game and we were going to try and make the game more ridiculous.”Įric Shumaker co-developed Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden with his friend Brian Raum and a handful of artists and programmers, founding Tales of Game's Studios. And that was really the only reason behind it. “I saw Barkley Shut Up and Jam! and thought it would be really funny if we called it Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. “I just saw that name,” Eric Shumaker says. Why Barkley? Why an ageing basketball star for a ludicrous JRPG? Through pixellated sprite eyes and world-weary dialogue he somehow conveys all of the real Barkley's competitive aggression and arrogance, topping it off with both pathos – his relationship with Hoopz is strained – and joyful, inane, absolute insanity.
Gaiden had Barkley recruit a party of b-ballers in an age when b-ball was outlawed: a cyborg version of ex-player Vince Carter, known as Vinceborg 'Ultimate Hellbane', later revealed to be the great grandson of current NBA baller LeBron James Cyberdwarf, a dwarf with skin made entirely of basketballs and Hoopz, whose youthful exuberance keeps Barkley sane.Īnd there's Barkley himself. BSUJ let Barkley play with real life NBA stars. Where the original took place on small, squeaky courts, Gaiden took players into sugar mines, forgotten tombs, abandoned ball factories, Proto Neo New York, and dimensions devoted entirely to basketball. 2008's Gaiden was a top-down RPG that took its cues from obscure cult Japanese games. 1994's Barkley was an arcade sports sim, apeing the popular NBA Jam in mechanics. Barkley Shut Up and Jam! was a game about basketball and so was Gaiden, but in a very different way. A sequel was released the following year.īarkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden was released in 2008. It was a basketball game, and starred that year's most valuable NBA player: the titular Charles Barkley. He accidentally destroyed the world as we know it with a Chaos Dunk: a slam dunk so dunktacular that it killed everyone who witnessed it – everyone but Barkley's young son Hoopz.īarkley Shut Up and Jam! was developed by Accolade and released in 1994 on the SNES and Mega Drive. Charles Barkley lives in Neo New York: a shattered city, ruined by 2041's Cyberpocalypse.
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