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It's [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] [[In a World]] where basketball is [[Serious Business]]. The sport has been outlawed and the world's ballers have been hunted down and killed after a forbidden technique known as a Chaos Dunk killed millions.
 
Really, the whole game is one big moment of hilarity from start to finish, from the underground colony of furries to the ruins of [[New Neo City|Proto-Neo-New York]] and beyond. It has to be seen to be believed. {{spoiler|Oh, and did we mention that the events of ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'' are canonical to the game's timeline?}} The full title is ''Tales of Game's Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley [[SaGa]]''.
 
And remember: If you can't slam with the best, [http://talesofgames.com/barkley/ then jam with the rest.]
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: This game is an incredible parody of 16-bit JRPGs. There's also a ''much'' less affectionate parody of the RPG Maker community and certain Internet subcultures in general. A few of the rants that you read before saving are taken verbatim from real Internet discussion forums.
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]
* [[Action Commands]]: The attacks in the game are made stronger by well-timed button presses of various sorts, similar to [[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|Paper Mario]].
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Subverted. You can hear about a key in Cuchulainn's Tomb, and you see the door the key is supposed to open afterward, but there's no key in the tomb at all.
** Actually you can apply that to virtually anything presented as a "secret" in this game. Anything that you really have [[Lost Forever]] you weren't told about if you missed it, and everything that you are told you "missed" didn't exist.
* [[All in Aa Row]]
* [[Alternate History]]: The Revolutionary War wasn't fought for America, but [[Inherently Funny Words|Jickleberg]]. The aftermath of the war is the Cyberpocalypse.
* [[Always Check Behind the Chair]]: Lampshaded with [[Grail in Thethe Garbage|the trash cans in the Spalding building.]]
* [[Antidote Effect]]: Averted; healing items work by percents instead of fixed numbers. You'll still want to buy the all-purpose [[Standard Status Effect]] cure instead of the individual status medicine, though.
* [[Anticlimax Boss]]: Most of the opponents in the B-Ball Dimension Arena Tournament, except for the final battle with Kevin Garnett. Special mention goes to the Flame Delmon, who blows ''himself'' up early into the fight. Barkley [[Irony|comments afterwards that it was tough]].
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* [[Anti-Grinding]]: [[Actually Four Mooks|Wandering enemies]] don't respawn, [[Good Bad Bugs|except in one area]] that gets visited twice.
* [[Big Bad]]: Like many JRPGs, [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|you don't see him or hear about it at all]] until you've beaten everything else.
* [[Bigger Onon the Inside]]: Dikembe Mutombo's entire tomb is inside Cyberdwarf's house in Cesspool X.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: There are a lot of fake "bad translation" elements; "Gun" is always pluralized as "gun's", and people who use "gun's" are "gun'sbrasters", because they can "brast" things out of their "gun's".
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Ghastly Darklord.
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* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] \ [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: The Chaos Dunk.
* {{spoiler|[[Dating Sim]]}} (Good lord) Applebottoms.
* [[Depending Onon the Artist]]: Within ''the same game'', many characters are depicted as looking radically different in their different sprites. Between Balthios's portrait, overworld, and battle sprites, his hair goes from [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|long and white]] to short and black to short and white, respectively. Also, Hoopz's overworld sprites look nothing like how he does in-battle and in his portrait. Put simply, Cyberdwarf is the ''only'' character who has any degree of correlation between sprites and picture. Invoked from the start, where Hoopz turns into the "generic basketball player" sprite and back when showing Barkley his skills.
* [[Developer's Room]]: {{spoiler|It's located in scenic Hell.}}
* [[Development Hell]]: Years have passed since this game came out, and Episode 2 ''still'' doesn't exist. Given all the other jokes at video gaming's expense, this is probably deliberate.
* [[The Dragon]]: Michael Jordan.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Eventually Charles learns to dual-wield basketballs by double-dribbling, allowing him to perform normal attacks twice in a row and doubling his power.
* [[Duel to Thethe Death]]/[[Duel Boss]]: Barkley v. Jordan.
* Easter Egg: Jordan's theme is {{spoiler|Sweet Georgia Brown}}, just in a minor key and played slowly on a synthesizer.
* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]]: Sludge Elves<ref>Weren't they in ''[[Linleys Dungeon Crawl]]''?</ref> and Dwarves don't get along.
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* [[Enemy Without]]: {{spoiler|Shadow Barkley}}.
* [[Everything Fades]]/[[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Dying enemies randomly choose between the two.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: {{spoiler|Shadow Barkley's true form is... Charles's head on Diablo from ''[[Primal Rage]]''.}}
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Vinceborg}}.
* [[Fallen Hero]]: Michael Jordan plays this role, especially given that ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'' is considered canon.
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]: Features dwarves, the undead, elemental [[Magic Knight|Magic Knights]], aliens, genies, and superpowered basketball players, among other things. In near-future America without explanation, no less.
* [[Fan Sequel]]: To ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]'', and (naturally) to the obscure Genesis game ''Barkley, Shut Up and Jam!''.
* [[Fight Woosh]]: About 20+ different wooshes, chosen at random.
* [[Flat What]]: Barkley delivers one upon seeing the "reward" for {{spoiler|turning in the F.I.N.A.L.G.U.N. to Mark.}}
* [[Fun Withwith Acronyms]] B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S., the Statue of L.I.B.E.R.T.Y., ~F.A.T.E~, and the legendary F.I.N.A.L.G.U.N. Mind, if any of these actually stand for anything, it's never elaborated upon.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: They live in the sewers of Neo New York. Surprisingly, they're actually treated pretty fairly - they're decent people (some hostility towards the "norms" aside, and that's required for the standard post-apocalypse sewer-dweller template), rather intelligent and insightful. Barkley's a dick to them, but he's a dick to ''everyone'' in this game. All in all, they come off far better here than in, say, ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''.
* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]: In the post-cyberpocalypse, mankind will live off of Protein Paste and [[Nostalgia Filter|Hi-C Ecto Coolers]].
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* [[Lost Forever]]: Subverted - most of the secret items that the game says you didn't find... {{spoiler|don't actually exist}}.
* [[Magic Plastic Surgery]]: Dr. Allard is able to transform human furries into the species of their desire.
* [[Magitech]]: [[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Manufacted]] Slamicite. It has a less harmful counterpart, jamicite, but for your purposes you need the strong stuff.
* [[Mega Corp]]: [[Square Enix|Square-Enix]]-Goya.
* [[Mons]]: The B-Ball Ranch. ({{spoiler|Subverted - they don't actually do anything.)}}
* [[Monster Compendium]]: The Animayor's bestiary, although most of the entries are never actually encountered elsewhere.
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* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]
* [[No Fair Cheating]]: If you quit and restart the game after losing money gambling, the gambler will come up to you, take all your money, and auto-save the game.
* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: The soundtrack's metadata is full of vaguely obscene, badly typed nonsense, most of which has nothing to do with the music at all (with a few exceptions like '[[Blatant Lies|Hilarious]] [[Dark Reprise|Georgia Brown]]', [[Blue Dragon|'jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this']], and the simply titled [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|'sad']]).
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Hell. Also, the normal game over screen does not make any sense at all.
** {{spoiler|Kurt Cobain}}
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* [[Product Placement]]: Parodied; the game's most potent healing item is a Burger King Chicken Fry. Not an entire carton, ''just one''. It cures death, maxes out health and magic, and cures all status effects, for the whole party. The second-strongest healing item is the greasy "dew" left behind by a Chicken Fry.
* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: Courtesy of Dikembe Mutombo. [[NBA Jam|BOOM! SHAKA! LAKA!]]
* [[Putting Onon the Reich]]: The B-Ballnacht
* [[Real Person Fic]]: Well, duh.
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: The Spalding factory is mostly untouched years after being abandoned due to the Chaos Dunk.
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* [[Silliness Switch]]: In addition to the [[Final Fantasy X|"Al Bhed"]] language option and the game's general silliness, upon beating the game you unlock {{spoiler|Victorian Steampunk}} mode (seemingly inspired by Barkley's old nickname of "Sir Charles"), which replaces all character names and portraits with ones appropriate to the wrong setting.
* [[SMURFING]]: This game takes the amount of words or phrases that can have "b-ball" appended to them [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[So Long and Thanks For All Thethe Gear]]: Averted - any departing character's equipment is given back to you.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The battle theme to the [[Duel Boss]] is Sweet Georgia Brown.
* [[Space Station]]: Necron 5.
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* [[Take That]]: Among other things, it mocks [[Fan Dumb]], [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]], [[Furry Fandom]], and the [[Otaku]] subculture.
* [[Take Your Time]]: There's no urgency to find the diabetes cure for Hoopz.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: The first phase of the final boss fight is a [[Title Theme Drop]], which is a remix of the theme from ''[[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]''. A riff can also be heard during Charles's flashback to the first Chaos Dunk.
* [[Too Awesome to Use]]: The {{spoiler|Golden Potato, acquired from the optional Ghastly Darklord boss, which does enormous damage to enemies but can only be used once.}}
* [[Trademark Favourite Food]]: Duergars rely entirely on Dunkaroos and chemical potions for sustenance.
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* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Cyberdwarf performs suplexes for his physical attacks.
* [[World Map]]: Parodied - It appears just before the last dungeon, and there's only two locations on it.
* [[X Meets Y]]: The developers stated in an interview that is's like "[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]] meets [[Space Jam (Film)|Space Jam]]" or something to that effect. Alternatively, ''[[NBA Jam]]'' meets ''[[Fallout]]'' meets ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]''.
* [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word]]
* [[Young Gun]]: Hoopz Barkley.
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