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Arcade Hoops Basketball™ – Casual Game Review
Arcade Hoops Basketball™ is a Casual/Sports/Entertainment game from Skyworks Interactive Corp., first launched in 5th November 2008.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 70+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Arcade Hoops Basketball™ Stand Out
Your favorite basketball game just got better! We've just added two new fun skins for even more variety in game play – Robot and Carnival. And don't forget our Christmas skin in the holiday season!
Beat the buzzer in this classic arcade game! In Skyworks® Arcade Hoops Basketball™, it’s a race against the clock to sink as many baskets as you can.
With 3 game modes, multiple game skins, Game Center and an option to shoot to the beat of your own music, you’ll never get bored. Connect to Facebook to challenge your friends for serious bragging rights!
WHAT THE PLAYERS SAY:
“A great game to play and will have players addicted for a long time.” – Gamezone
“Arcade Hoops Basketball is really well done… Good value and good quality.” – 148 Apps
“..one of the most realistic and fun games I have used on the iPhone.” – Mike’s iPhone Blog
FEATURES:
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Three Fun and Challenging Game Modes
— Classic: sink the most 2-point shots in 45 seconds
— Progressive: score the most 2 and 3 point shots in 99 seconds against a moving backboard
— 3 Point: score as many 3 pointers as you can in 45 seconds -
Eight unique skins: Choose your favorite themed environment
— Arcade: Play using the classic look of arcade hoops
— New! Carnival: what really is behind “the curtain”, complete with juggler and carnival ball
— New! Robot: get out the oil! Robot hands, robot cage and even a robot ball!
— Zombies: Play as a member of the undead
— Space: a celestial shooting experience featuring constellations and a special “Moon” basketball
— Doodle: doodle drawings and a doodle cage!
— Christmas: Feeling festive? Shoot your baskets alongside a Christmas Tree with a giant ornament basketball!
— St Patrick’s Day: a green & white ball plus all the Irish music you can handle -
Game Center
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Choose your own music: Select in-game music or use your own music library
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Local high score boards
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Facebook Integration
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Challenge a friend: play against your friends!
When you’re taking a break from Arcade Hoops Basketball, try out Skyworks’ other hit titles such as WORLD CUP TABLE TENNIS™ and ARCADE BOWLING™. Or, just search for “Skyworks” in the App Store search bar, find your favorite games, and have a BLAST!
If you like our games, show us some love on Twitter (@SkyworksGames) and Facebook (http://on.fb.me/skyworks)! Thanks, and get to playing!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Arcade Hoops Basketball™ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th March 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
-Bug Fixes
Download & Availability
Arcade Hoops Basketball™ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Arcade Hoops Basketball™ on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Used to play when we were three now we found it again and still the best game to ever exist.
We love this game best basketball game ever.
Thanks for the update to the first game we bought on the AppStore.
Love Skyworks. So happy that this game was updated.
This would be a 5, but the ranking needs to be adjusted. When the points are the same then it should go to the highest Fg% not the ordered played.
We luv this game! It's a very great game to play.
This app is Awesome!! Very easy and fun, keeps personal bests & allows you to play to your own music. Totally cool game! Love the three pointers contest with our on music! Fast games do a total go to app when you are waiting for anything.
Great game, but thee are loads if glitches in the 3-point mode. If you take the ball to the full left side and flick up, you make it in almost 90% of the time. And the most useful one is when you pause the game at end time, you get a few more seconds to play. But overall, we love the game.
We paid for the app and sponsor adds still pop up during game play. Not cool and will not be buying anymore of your games. Rip off.
We think this game is 2 cuz it was a little weird when we did the progressive mode.
Fun game. Really enjoy playing it.
Really great game reminds us a lil of hot shot hope there will be more themes.
Dis game iz so fun can't stop playing it.. Holla.
We love this game high score 110 on 3pointers.
Amazing game to play when there is nothing to do and ur bored.
Idk how they did it but its just like playing the real thing.
The only game we ever have on our iPhone… Any chance we can get an update for iPhone 5?? That'll make this game more complete n worth 5 stars.
Very addictive!!! No need to go to the Arcade to play this unless your younger than 12.
Great game to help past the time. Needs more option to choose from as a game. Love this game.
Very fun addicting short games just like in the real arcade awesome.
Very cool! Ability to change themes in game is awesome! Very addictive and lots of daily mpoints.
The upgraded game of arcade hoops is great you can play basketball in space at the carnival and so many more.
We love this game. We're glad we purchased it back in 2009.
We were wondering why you took our achievements away. We shot everything to get our points yesterday & they didn't give us our mpoints so we thought they would be there today, but they aren't. There's quite a few flaws in this game. If your lucky enough & get your mpoints , we suggest you use them right away, three times now they have just taken our points. And as far as the bonus box, what a joke, they'll either give you a bonus option that doesn't work or the box is empty all the time. We have contacted their sponsors & let them know that none of their 'movies' are seen by the game players because they do not load. And as far as getting options for bonus points when you turn in your mpoints, they're aren't any or they will give you something that doesn't work, etc.. Bonus movies, bonus games, hey if your lucky enough to get them don't get excited because they're a waste of your time, they don't work. Now a new problem has arised, good luck getting the mpoints you shot for because it's beginning to become a war to get them & don't expect these people to give them to you. We had to hit explore 15 times before it would even give us the 10 pts for the 9 in a row. We understand the economy isn't great but certainly no reason to give you bonus options when they don't work. Six months ago we were recommending the game to friends but not anymore. This game has taken a dive to the bottom. We're still playing hoping they can be honest about what they offer you, but so far we're seeing no improvement. We've talked to the Arcade Hoops reps, they assured us everything would be fixed but unfortunately nothing's fixed & more is going wrong. Maybe for the New Year they can get it together but if we were you we wouldn't hold our breath.
Great game, having lots of fun. We can play for hours and hours.
Nice time killer along with it being a great game itself. We would definitely recommend this game to many people.
One of the best game Apps we have on our iPhone and we always love playing it… Xx.
It is like playing at the arcade.
We love this game and the new up grades are a great improvement.
We really like the Christmas level.
We go on this app daily and play nonstop! It's a great app and we even bought other apps by them just to show it.
Kudos to this apps developer..! This is fun, addictive, easy to play game..! Very neat design and fun to play..! WARNING ~> Very addicting.
The best game ever BA basketball game.
Fun, fun, fun almost like the real thing. The more you play, the better you get, the more fun you have.
Super fun but just update app to fit the new iPhone 5 resolution.
It's to cool a app that pays off we will be playing daily.
This may sound stupid but our accuracy in basket ball has increased 20%.
Sweet game love it, love the rewards.
GREAT APP, GREAT GAME, we LOVE TO SPEND SOME TIME BY MY SELF, IT HELP ME TO FORGET THE DAY AT WORK, IT RELAST ME.
We've played this game for years, but now in modern times there are a few improvements to be made. Multitasking Support iPhone 5 Screen Support Ability to play again after viewing scores.
We love it. Very good for passing time.
This game is easy and lots of fun for our boys.
We love this game, truly enjoyable.
This is the most fun basketball game we have ever played.
This game is so fun! It is so a good doller sent.
Great upgrade Now we ask… What are the possibilities of a retina gameplay being in process? And possible support for the iPod Touch/iPhone 5G maybe.
We are very happy with this game. We like the different scenes and the challenges. Although its just shooting hoops, it gets a lot of use.
Great, but we don't see they keep making harder to get mPoints, we hardly even get bonuses now.
But because of the ignorance, we will be deleting both apps.
The paid version of this game has always been a ripoff. Points have always been better on the free version. Great business strategy. But now that mPoints are nonexistent on both versions, ill be deleting this app. See ya.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.2.0
- Size: 18.24 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Skyworks Interactive Corp.
Last updated: 5th March 2017 | Genre: Casual, Sports | Developer: Skyworks Interactive Corp.