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1994 · Data East · Arcade · Basketball

Street Slam

Timed SNK exclusive

Street Hoop, known in Japan as Dunk Dream and known in North America as Street Slam, is a basketball video game developed by Data East for Neo-Geo, released in 1994. The game features three-on-three basketball match-ups with a variety of different teams.

Released: 8 January 1994
Platforms: Arcade Neo Geo Neo Geo CD Nintendo Switch Wii Windows Xbox One Zeebo
Genres: Arcade Basketball Indie Sports
Developers: Data East
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB E CLASS_IND L
Languages: English
Time to beat: 1hmain story3hcompletionist

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Street Slam, released in Japan as Dunk Dream and in Europe as Street Hoop, is a 1994 basketball video game developed and published by Data East for the Neo Geo arcade and home platforms. The game features three-on-three basketball match-ups with a variety of different teams. Street Slam is the only basketball game released on the Neo Geo.

A sequel to the game, known as Dunk Dream '95 in Japan, Hoops '96 in Europe, and simply Hoops in North America, was released in 1995. In 2010, the original game was released for the Wii on the Virtual Console, as well as part of the compilation Data East Arcade Classics. Hamster Corporation re-released the game as part of their ACA Neo Geo series for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Windows.

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Gameplay

In the US version of the game, the player can choose a three-player team from a selection of ten city-based teams in the United States. In the European and Japanese versions of the game, the cities are replaced with countries around the world. The selection screens, player skin colours and costumes also change between the versions.

The teams have 18 points in several characteristics (dunk, 3pts, speed, and defense), and 8pts max for each. Every team has its own strengths and weaknesses. For example, New York (USA in the JP/EU version) is good in dunks and bad in 3-pointers. On the other hand, Philadelphia (Taiwan in JP/EU version) is good in 3-pointers and bad in dunks.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Street Slam as the eighteenth most popular arcade game of February 1995. In North America, RePlay reported the game to be the third most popular arcade game at the time. According to Famitsu, the Neo Geo CD version sold over 4,873 copies in its first week of release.

Upon release, Famitsu scored the Neo Geo version of the game a 25 out of 40. Next Generation reviewed the Neo Geo version of the game, rating it two stars out of five.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Neo Geo	8 January 1994	Europe · Japan 8 January 1994 · North America 9 January 1994 · Japan 9 January 1994
Arcade	9 January 1995	Worldwide
Neo Geo CD	20 January 1995	Japan · North America 20 January 1995
Zeebo	31 March 2010	Worldwide · Brazil 16 April 2010
Wii	20 July 2010	Japan · Europe 22 October 2010 · North America 1 November 2010
Windows	28 June 2011	Japan