GenesisOverview
Barkley: Shut Up and Jam 2 is a belt-scrolling 2-on-2 street basketball game developed and published by Accolade (under their "Sport Accolade" brand) for the Sega Genesis in North America in 1995.
A sequel to the 1994 game Barkley: Shut Up and Jam!, Shut Up and Jam 2 features an updated roster (with Sir Charles no longer playable), revamped gameplay mechanics (including a new performance-based "Juice Bar" and several new techniques), an extensive amount of player animations, and aa battery backup system for saving stats and tournament progress. Its Tournament Mode is also revamped, in which players have to challenge Sir Charles and his posse in eight U.S. cities.
Both the game and its predecessor also received an Evercade release by Piko Interactive in 2021 (as part of the Piko Interactive Collection 2 bundle), where it was renamed to Hoops: Shut Up and Jam 2 and had removed all likenesses and voices of Charles Barkley (replacing him with the more generic "Joe Hoops").
Gameplay
Much of the gameplay is the same as in the original Shut Up and Jam. One key difference is that the "Power" bursts are replaced with a gauge known as the "Juice Bar". The C button is now used for special techniques.
Instead of each player having limited "Power" bursts to manually activate, they have their own "Juice Bar" that changes based on the player's performance (with successful steals/blocks/intercepts, 3-pointers, and super dunks growing the gauge and having their ball stolen/blocked/intercepted shrinking it). When the Juice Bar is half-way full, the player gains increased abilities.
Characters
The game revamps the roster of its predecessor, featuring a new cast of playable characters (of which the titular Charles Barkley is not playable). While the back of the game's box says that each have their "own unique style", it is unknown whether or not they have unique stats.
Playable
- Angsta
- Bones
- Coolidge
- Kimo
- Kreep
- Newts
- Rhino
- Sphinx
- Tino
- Tyrone
Opponents
In the game's Tournament mode, players face-off against "Sir Charles" (a generic "Joe Hoops" in some versions) in eight different U.S. cities, each with a different teammate:
