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Mario Hoops 3 on 3
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Item Description
Dribbling with a stylus sounds like a gimmick until the first time you tap out a dribble, flick a pass to Luigi and finish with a dunk worth a fistful of coins. Mario Hoops 3-on-3, known as Mario Slam Basketball in Europe, was developed by Square Enix for Nintendo, and it builds its whole take on basketball around the DS touch screen. The D-pad moves your player while almost everything else happens with the stylus: tap to dribble, slide toward a teammate to pass, flick upward to shoot, and use quick gestures for blocks, spins and dunks.
Scoring is gloriously un-NBA. A regular two-pointer is worth 20 points and a three is worth 30, but the coins your team scoops up along the way are added on top, so a possession that rolls over coin boxes and ? panels can produce a single basket worth as much as an entire real game. Those panels also hand out items such as Red Shells and Bob-ombs, turning defense into chaos. Each character has a special shot triggered by tapping out a pattern on the screen, often the character's own initial, like an M for Mario.
The Square Enix connection shows up in the roster. Alongside Mario, Luigi, Peach and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom regulars, completing the Tournament brackets unlocks extra cups, courts and characters, including a handful of Final Fantasy guests: White Mage, Black Mage, Ninja, Moogle and Cactuar. Tournament mode pits your trio against rival teams through a bracket, two players can face off head-to-head, and a set of minigames supports up to four.
Critics praised its bright presentation and intuitive touch controls while wishing the single-player side ran deeper, and that is a fair read: this is arcade basketball meant for quick, flashy games. It is also a fascinating piece of Mario sports history, Square Enix's return to the Mushroom Kingdom a decade after Square's Super Mario RPG, and a partnership the company would revisit with Mario Sports Mix on the Wii.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2006
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Square Enix
- Genre
- Sports
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
Get that magic touch. There are plenty of basketball games out there, but none with the hands-on control of Mario Hoops 3-on-3. Players use the touch screen to get their game on as they execute tricky dribbles, special passes and sweet shots - all with strokes and taps of the stylus. Players choose their teams of three characters from the Mario universe and hit the parquet. Power-ups like Red Shells and Bob-ombs can turn the tide as they chase down coins - they will affect the score, so players collect as many as they can as they drive to the hoop. Whether playing against friends on a local wireless connection, jamming through a tournament or just playing mini-games, there's a mode for everyone.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayMario Hoops 3 on 3 on Nintendo DS
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Mario Hoops 3 on 3
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