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Hoops
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Item Description
Nobody calls fouls on the blacktop, and Hoops plays by the same rule. Jaleco's 1988 basketball game skips the arena, the referees and the five-man lineups and drops you onto an outdoor half court, where everything comes down to quick hands, smart passes and the nerve to drive the lane. Developed by Aicom, it began life in Japan as Moero!! Junior Basket: Two on Two before bringing its streetball attitude to the NES.
Eight playground regulars make up the roster, among them Mr. Doc, Jammer, Legs, Bomber and Wiz, and you can match them one-on-one or two-on-two on an Eastern or Western court. You set the house rules too, including whether the team that scores keeps the ball, the classic winners-out call of every pickup game. With no fouls to slow things down, steals, blocks and quick passes decide every possession, and when someone takes off for a dunk the action cuts to a slow-motion sequence that a sharp defender can still swat away. Play against the computer, take on a friend, or team up with a friend against the CPU, and when you just want to work on your shot, an Around the World mode is waiting.
A newspaper reviewer of the day ranked Hoops among the best basketball games on the NES, and its appeal has not changed much since. It is fast, easy to learn and made for two people sharing a couch, and its named streetballers give it more personality than most sports cartridges of the late 1980s. The half-court format keeps every trip down the floor tense, which is exactly what you want from a game you can finish in a few minutes and immediately demand a rematch.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Jaleco
- Genre
- Sports
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Gym rats, beware! HOOPS takes you out to the asphault, where basketball is a half-court game of fast hands, faster moves and slam-jam-thank-you-Sam dunks! The legends of the Playground are all here: Mr. Doc, Jammer, Legs, Bomber, Wiz, eight players in all. You can pit them one-on-one or two-on-two. You pick the court - Eastern or Western - and you pick the rules, too. You can play against the computer or one other player. Or you can even team up with another player against the computer. You can block shots, make steals, pass off or go strong to the hoop - in fact, you control just about everything in this ultra-realistic rendition of the playground game. Except, of course, the final score. But win or lose, you know you've been in a game after you've played a game of HOOPS!
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