Old Games: Encyclopedia Bombastica: Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City

I remember as a kid entering in MCHLJRDN-23 through just blind guessing of of the cheat codes and having it work. I don't even think I knew what his number was, I just ran out of letters and filled the rest with junk.

This must be the worst music ever..

wait, I thought the Bombastica involves "good" games...

What is with that whole "MJ wanted to take Kennedy's virginity away?"

Loved this game as a kid. I really need to play it again

Super entertaining, Patrick! I'm excited to see more!

Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden suddenly makes a lot more sense.

When the SNES was on it's way out, a local grocery store would rent 5 SNES games for 5 dollars. I remember renting this game from there.

Well, at least he warned us he'd completely suck at the game.

Hey, Patrick, notice how when the game puts those basketball hoops up, and until you get the timing right, you spike the ball on the ground when you do a jump shot?

Notice how there are plenty of enemies on the lower levels of platforms that you are just jumping down next to and taking hits from?

Put 2 and 2 together! You can fire downwards from a jump shot! It's a very important game mechanic!

The design of this game seems very inspired by Michael Jackson's Moonwalker

@unclebenny: One mans trash is another mans treasure?

I mean someone in the comments said

"Loved this game as a kid. I really need to play it again"

so it was good for someone.

might I suggest Mary Shelly's Frankenstein for SNES as the next Bombastica entry? Everything about that is mind meltingly weird and awful.

It's #3 on this top 10 list. Good move Danny Ainge.

http://www.nba.com/video/channels/top_plays/2012/09/07/1993_nba_finals_top10.nba/index.html

edit: Patrick describes the play as Pippen passes it to a teammate but as far as I can remember (and google) this is Pippen's most famous inbound play.

Leave the Heat alone, they're working on more titles. We can only win one a year.

Slam with the best or jam with the rest.

I PLAYED THE SHIT OUT OF THIS GAME WHEN I WAS NINE! And never thought about it again until right now. Awesome.

Lebron will come back with his own game called Lebron James: Floppin' in the Silicon City.

Cha-ass in the Windy Shitty!

Timeout

Are you saying he's doing it wrong?

I...kinda want to play this. Looks really cool with the different balls and the random but welcome baskets to dunk on.

I always thought this game was interesting when I grew up. The entire premise was just so weird, but the gameplay was so finicky, so I couldn't really get into it.

Constructive criticism time: Watching someone struggle with a game like this's basic controls is super annoying. If you decide to produce more of these videos, howzabout spending some time making sure you know how to make it all work?

This game looks kinda neat.

Whistles are the enemy.

Loving your Chicago content Patrick!

zombie dudes with basketball heads...riiiiiight

I still have an old 'Game Players' magazine with the guide for this game. It looked aaaaamaaaaazing and played like shiiiiiit.

Why did they ever stop making games like these for major consoles? I would buy the shit out of a LeBron game.

GB Chicago is stepping it up!

I like how at one point Patrick almost said "man there were a lot of doors in the 90's"

I don't get whats 'bad' about this game. Great music and decent visuals, cleaver quirky mechanics and story.

Great to see Patrick and another Encyclopædia Bombastica though.

Is it just me or does this game seem decent?

@planetary: I agree

He is starting to really force jokes now also...

It looks better than it should.

It's not clear what Patrick's problem with the game is. He seems to be having trouble controlling Michael at times, but it's hard to tell if that's the game's fault or not.

Yuup. He needs to take care of that thing.

Great to see Patrick again an hope we get to see more of these snes games such a big part of my childhood, zombies ate my neighbors FTW

@kirios: Seems decent enough to me. I remember playing it for the first time back then and thinking "Gee, this looks pretty good, also it's kinda hard" aka like most games from that genre from that era :D

Yes, Shut Up and Jam is better than this — the Genesis one at least.

Also, this game has kick ass music.

I thought he was just joking the first time, but as I continue to watch this, I'm actually quite confident that Patrick doesn't think they're called "dunks", but rather, "slammajams".

This game doesn't seem terrible. I would watch a speed run of this.

YO THOSE BASKETBALLS ARE ON FIRE

DAMMIT PATRICK, THE "COMICAL" GESTURE THAT MJ MAKES WHEN HE FALLS DOWN A PIT IS CLEARLY THE "EVEN I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M PULLING THIS SHIT OFF" SHRUG HE DID AFTER BOMBING ALL THOSE THREES THAT ONE TIME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDNxhFCXPs

COME ON!

Diggin' these EBs, even if I never played the original.

Patrick is on fire here.

Also, goldmine: creepy MJ is creeping around

I don't know how I feel about enemies dropping Mickey's 40s

I simply cannot believe I have never heard of this game before.

He's heating up!

PATRICK'S ON FIRE!

Dear lord, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to mid-90's terrible 2D platformers with slippery controls. Some sponsored, some not, all terrible.