Street Hoop
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Street Hoop, known in Japan
as and known in North America
as Street Slam, is a basketball
game developed by Data East
for Neo-Geo
, released in 1994
and later on the Wii
Virtual Console
in Japan on July 20, 2010, the PAL region on October 22, 2010 and in North America on November 1, 2010.
In the European (Street Hoop) and Japanese (Dunk Dream) versions of the game, players can select to compete from 1 of 10 countries. However, in the US version of the game (Street Slam), players instead get to choose from US cities. The selection screens, player skin colours and costumes also change between the versions and it is not simply the case that the team names have been changed.
Every team in both versions has a total of 18 points in several characteristics (Dunk, 3pts, Speed, and Defence), and 8pts max for each.
Every team has its own characteristic. For example, America (New York in the US Version) is good in dunks and bad in 3pts. Unlike Taiwan (Philadelphia in US version) which is good in 3pts and bad in dunks. There are 3 players for each team.
A sequel to the game, known as Dunk Dream 95 in Japan and Hoops 96 in Europe, was released in 1995.
Street Hoop was the inspiration for King of Fighters character, Lucky Glauber.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
as and known in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
as Street Slam, is a basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
game developed by Data East
Data East
also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, when it declared bankruptcy...
for Neo-Geo
Neo Geo (console)
The is a cartridge-based arcade and home video game system released on July 1, 1991 by Japanese game company SNK. Being in the Fourth generation of Gaming, it was the first console in the former Neo Geo family, which only lived through the 1990s...
, released in 1994
1994 in video gaming
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and later on the Wii
Wii
The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
Virtual Console
Virtual console
A virtual console – also known as a virtual terminal – is a conceptual combination of the keyboard and display for a computer user interface. It is a feature of some operating systems such as UnixWare, Linux, and BSD, in which the system console of the computer can be used to switch between...
in Japan on July 20, 2010, the PAL region on October 22, 2010 and in North America on November 1, 2010.
In the European (Street Hoop) and Japanese (Dunk Dream) versions of the game, players can select to compete from 1 of 10 countries. However, in the US version of the game (Street Slam), players instead get to choose from US cities. The selection screens, player skin colours and costumes also change between the versions and it is not simply the case that the team names have been changed.
Every team in both versions has a total of 18 points in several characteristics (Dunk, 3pts, Speed, and Defence), and 8pts max for each.
Every team has its own characteristic. For example, America (New York in the US Version) is good in dunks and bad in 3pts. Unlike Taiwan (Philadelphia in US version) which is good in 3pts and bad in dunks. There are 3 players for each team.
A sequel to the game, known as Dunk Dream 95 in Japan and Hoops 96 in Europe, was released in 1995.
Street Hoop was the inspiration for King of Fighters character, Lucky Glauber.