Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City
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Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City
- Release Date: 1994
- Genre: Shooter
- Style: Platform Shooter
Game Description
Arguably the greatest basketball player in NBA history gets his own side-scrolling action game with Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City. Run, jump, flip, ride (elevators), glide (on pulleys) and slam-dunk your way through more than 20 levels as you guide His Airness through four Chicago locations: The Cells, The Factory, The Laboratory and Riverview. Your job in the game is to rescue Michael's teammates, who have been kidnapped by Dr. Max Cranium.Each time Michael makes contact with a creature or an enemy he will lose some energy. Pick up MJ Hearts, Wheaties Boxes or Gatorade Bottles to increase energy and Golden Hearts to add another globe to the health meter. You should also pick up basketball coins. When you collect 100 coins, you will gain an extra life.
Other items to pick up include high-tops, which provide brief invincibility, Golden 23s, which give you extra lives, and color-coded keys, which open doors. Behind doors you will find helpful items, such as power-ups and captives, and things you would be better off without, such as enemies. From time to time you will enter a warp door, which takes you to a bonus level where you can score points, power-ups and items by shooting baskets and defeating enemies.
Throughout the game, Michael is supplied with an unlimited number of basketballs for use in throwing at enemies, flipping switches, activating platforms and, of course, performing slam-dunks. When you dunk the ball in one of the many hoops you'll see during your travels, you will score items, access a save point, or freeze or damage enemies.
In addition to standard basketballs, there are seven different types of power balls, including a White Knuckleball, which goes through solid walls, a Flame Ball, which is twice as powerful as the normal balls, and a Smoking Earthquake ball, which shakes the entire screen, damaging all enemies in view. Once you find a power ball, it becomes a permanent part of your inventory.
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City offers three levels of difficulty: rookie, pro and all-star. A password feature lets you save your progress after you turn off your game system.
~ Brett Alan Weiss, All Game Guide
Production Credits
Programming: Dave O'Connor, Chuck Sommerville, Simon Freeman, Lisa Ching; Art & Animation: Lynne Gura, Leon Cannon, Muffy Vasale, Maurine, Starkey, Paul Vernon, Will Noble, Arthur Koch, Amy Hennig; Sound & Music: David Whittaker, Murray Allen, Marc Farly, Don Veca; Game Design: Amy Henning; Additional Design: Dave Ralston, Todd Gilliland; Technical Director: John Brooks; Testers: William Schmitt, Todd Gilliland, Rick Cobb, Heather Meigs, Tony Diedrich; Executive Producer: Don Traeger; Producer: Jim Rushing; Associate Producer: Greg Suarez; Assistant Producer: Todd Gilliland; Product Manager: Lisa Higgins; Documentation & Game Text: Michael Humes; Documentation Layout: Brian Conery; Package Direction: Nancy Fong; Packaging Design: EJ Serrille; QA: Dan Gossett; Special Thanks: Michael Jordan, Sarah Smith
~ Brett Alan Weiss, All Game Guide
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Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City
| Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City | |
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 Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City official North American box art |
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| Developer(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Amy Hennig |
| Composer(s) | David Whittaker, Murray Allen, Marc Farley, Don Veca |
| Platform(s) | Super NES |
| Release date(s) | |
| Genre(s) | Two-dimensional platform Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player only |
| Media/distribution | 12-megabit cartridge |
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City is a side-scrolling action video game that was released by Electronic Arts in 1994 for the Super NES.
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Gameplay
The game played much like other two-dimensional platform games of its time, collecting keys and defeating enemies with a variety of different techniques. The player controls Michael Jordan on a quest to save the rest of the players for an All-Star charity game, who have all been kidnapped. The player attacks enemies using different basketballs, each with its own ability; for example, the freeze ball can freeze the ground and create a slippery surface, the bomb ball makes a large explosion, and so on. The player must find keys throughout the game to unlock different doors and rescue teammates. Michael can also slam dunk for a secondary attack. This is also used to activate powerup baskets and various checkpoints along the way.
Reception
Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City did not sell well and was named in the top ten worst video games in Nintendo Power magazine (issue 100); however, it was noted within the issue that the game was not entirely awful, but the concept itself was deemed ridiculous by many and thus was a part of the criticisms of the game itself.
See Also
External links
- Michael Jordan in Chaos in the Windy City at MobyGames
- Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City at GameFAQs
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