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<h2>Overview</h2><p>Rap Jam: Volume One is basketball video game for the <a href="/super-nintendo-entertainment-system/3045-9/" data-ref-id="3045-9">Super Nintendo Entertainment System</a> released in 1995. It features various popular rap artists at that time as the basketball players, and the courts are all on the streets of five major cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Atlanta. The game features a hip-hop soundtrack to go with its all-star cast of musicians.</p><h2>Gameplay</h2><p>Rap Jam plays very much like a standard 16-bit basketball game with a horizontally oriented view of the court. When taking shots, a meter quickly appears, and if the player releases the ball when the meter is full, they have a better chance of making the shot.</p><p>Games can be played against the computer in one on one, two on two, and three on three style variants. Local multiplayer is also supported.</p><h2>Reception</h2><p>Since release, this game has been general accepted as a poor game. Critics of this title have cited the lack of music; awkward controls; uncontrollable, random player changing; and quick repetitiveness of gameplay on a whole as reasons for disliking it.</p><h2>Characters</h2><p>The rappers and rap groups that appear in the game are:</p><ul><li>Coolio</li><li>House of Pain</li><li>LL Cool J</li><li>Naughty By Nature</li><li>Onyx</li><li>Public Enemy</li><li>Queen Latifah</li><li>Warren G</li><li>Yo-Yo</li></ul>