Basketball Nightmare
European cover art
Developer(s)Sega[1]
Publisher(s)Sega[1]
Designer(s)Tommy Ha Okorarenai
Ore Tensai Yamguchi
Watashi Tomocyan Ga Iina
Yasuo Te Wakatuki
Composer(s)Tokiwa Dota[2]
Ice Nagakura
Platform(s)Master System[1]
Release
Genre(s)Sports (basketball)
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Basketball Nightmare is a sports video game released in 1989 for the Master System in Europe, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.

Gameplay

The Yama-uba (witches) team's home basketball court is secluded in a bamboo forest.

The player is the captain of the hometown basketball team. Before he could prepare his team to win the all-American tournament, he started to have strange dreams about playing basketball in exotic locations against exotic creatures.[3]

First level is against werewolves in a forest.

Second level is against Kappas (water imps / little turtles) in a pond.

Third level is against Hitotsume-kozō (child cyclops) next to a rainfalls.

Fourth level is against vampires inside a cave of skeletons.

Fifth level is against a team of Yama-uba (witches) on a bamboo forest.

Sixth level is against a troop of Tengu on a shrine.

Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformed anime style.[4] Players can replay the matches that they lost until they finally beat the opposing team. Players must choose between a 15-minute game, a 30-minute game, or a 45-minute game. Several basketball fouls can be called; including traveling, charging (the player with the ball intentionally collides with a defender), and pushing (the defending player intentionally colliding with the ball handler).[3]

There is an alternate mode that allows players to play "international basketball" against countries like the US, Japan, Cuba, China, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, Canada, and France.[3]

Reception

Both Zero magazine[5] and Console XS gave it an 88%.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Basketball Nightmare at GameFAQs
  2. ↑ Composer/designer information at Sega Retro
  3. 1 2 3 Overview of Basketball Nightmare at MobyGames
  4. ↑ Advanced overview of Basketball Nightmare at 1UP! Games (in French)
  5. ↑ "Basketball Nightmare". Zero. No. 5. Dennis Publishing. March 1990. p. 54.
  6. ↑ "Software A-Z: Master System". Console XS. No. 1 (June/July 1992). United Kingdom: Paragon Publishing. 23 April 1992. pp. 137–47.
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