7 Times Basketball Wasn’t Weird Enough for Videogames

Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, for instance, tells the 100 percent true story of what happened during Michael Jordan’s brief retirement from the sport between 1993 and 1995.

In it, the nefarious Dr Maximus Cranium kidnaps the teammates of Michael Jordan before a big charity game. It’s up to Jordan to answer questions such as where are they imprisoned? Can they be rescued in time for the game? And who went to the trouble of installing basketball hoops throughout this underground prison?

Shaq Fu, on the other hand, tells the story of then Orlando Magic star Shaquille O’ Neal discovering a dojo for the Chinese martial art of Kung Fu in Tokyo. Which is in Japan.

He's then whisked off to a strange dimension known as The Second World, where he has to rescue a young boy called Nezu from an evil Mummy named Sett Ra, via the time-honoured technique of kicking everyone’s teeth in.

And hey, Shaq was also on the way to a charity game when he got abducted. Is the moral of these bizarre basketball games ‘"never do anything for charity"?

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[bobwilson]

3:26 I thought that when he said that long winded title: "The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa" I thought he was joking and laughed. However, when I found out that it was real I started rolling on the floor laughing until my gut started hurting.

[TreetopCanopy]

I had to look it up, but it turns out that "The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa" game was real, and that's its real title.

[kermboy]

that fresh prince of bel air joke at the end deserved a like, i almost died

[mrcmuenstermann]

They absolutely should outlaw basketball if a slam dunk can kill one person let alone Millions. that was actually a pretty reasonable call.

[TheRupertLitterbin]

I thought a chaos dunk was when you dunk a digestive (or a similar biscuit) in a cup of tea and it falls in the tea...

[domlocke]

Haha wow, the "Pontificate" dude from the Scottie Pippen game, is an excellent actor by the name of Cyrus Farmer. I'm bringing this up because I've seen him in NYPD Blue, Oz, and the Wire just to name a few. Guess you got to start somewhere.

[Thesynapze]

Andy needs to tell us where he acquired his Hot Dawg Man from Life is Strange t-shirt from immediately.

[Sunprism]

It can't be overstated how much of a superhero Michael Jordan was in the 90s. Like I've never even cared about sports, and I can chart his career through television, cartoons, movies and video games

[MatthewCampbell]

I'd actually assume that if aliens saw basketball, they'd come to the correct conclusion that it's indeed some kind of sport.

[WhammyTime]

I once had a group of basketball players round for dinner and they are such messy eaters.
Always dribbling.

[a]

Andy, every video now. every video there is a fresh Prince of bel air reference.

[bainbonic]

This is the second time Andy's done the Fresh Prince opening. Who else now wants to see him try to rap the entire opening credits?

[mikeegee]

Wow Mike. A Footwork Grand Prix team shirt! That classic team hasn't been in F1 for odd years? I'm sure they did a few seasons then became Arrows or something.

[villanelo]

Man... I remember, when Jordan decided to retire for the first time, the world went CRAZY.
Like... end of the world crazy.
Or at least, that is how I remember it, being a silly kid at the time.

[EfremZecarias]

Don't stop! For the love of God Andy, please create a channel just of you singing 90's era theme songs of my childhood. XD

[dialaskisel]

Hmm... Now someone needs to make a mod for Alien: Isolation where you play basketball...

[g.i.e]

Okay, major pet peeve, Gung Fu isn't a Chinese martial art, it's ALL Chinese martial arts. Saying someone practices Gung Fu is like saying they practice "fighting", you practice Fujan White Crane Gung Fu, or Drunken Fist Gung Fu, or Northern Shaolin, or Tai Chi Chuan, or any of the other dozen fully formed and very distinct Chinese martial arts.

[nyleaustin]

Surprised that Ganbare Dunk Heroes (Kunio-Kun/River city Ransom series) wasn't on this. Seriously, 3 baskets on each side with street fighter type techniques (and teleporting from that one team always made me want to punch them) was always fun to play.

[iamimiPod]

Barkley gaiden sounds like the best game ever.

[ShaunJon]

Shaq Fu is one of those memories I've tried my best to forget.