If you took away all the basketball references, you’d still have a perfectly serviceable (if obviously cliched) RPG storyline. Since the Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, he hasn’t picked up a basketball under threat of death at the hands of the fascist B-Ball Removal Department (headed by Michael Jordan). He’s jaded and cynical, and cares only about himself. No, the only real way to make the joke work - and Tales of Game had the intelligence to realize this, thank God - is to treat it as seriously as possible.Ĭharles Barkley has lost his wife, his friends, and his hope in the human race. With a premise as ridiculous as this, to start making self-aware gags or goofy jokes would be an act of comedic suicide.
Tales of Game’s Studios Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa.If you’re going to set an RPG in the year 2053 in a postcyberapocalyptic universe where a Chaos Dunk destroys Manhattan Island and it’s up to Charles Barkley and the octaroon great-grandson of LeBron james to save the world, you can’t treat it as a joke. Joined by allies along the way, including his son Hoopz, Barkley must face the dangers of a life he thought he gave up a long time ago and discover the secrets behind the terrorist organization B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S.Ī tale of zaubers, b-balls, and atonement brave dangers unheard of, face spectacular challenges that even the greatest ballers could not overcome, and maybe… just maybe… redeem basketball once and for all in: When the finger is put on the aging Charles Barkley, he must evade the capture of the B-Ball Removal Department, led by former friend and baller Michael Jordan, and disappear into the dangerous underground of the post-cyberpocalypse to clear his name and find out the mysterious truth behind the Chaos Dunk. A Chaos Dunk rocks the island of Manhattan, killing 15 million.
Among the few ballers and fans that survived the basketball genocide was Charles Barkley, the man capable of performing the “Verboten Jam”…įlash forward 12 years to the post-cyberpocalyptic ruins of Neo New York, 2053. The reason: the Chaos Dunk, a jam so powerful its mere existence threatens the balance of chaos and order. Thousands upon thousands of the world’s greatest ballers were massacred in a swath of violence and sports bigotry as the game was outlawed worldwide. The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the “B-Ballnacht”.
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