Basketball Nightmare is a sports video game released in 1989 for the Master System in Europe, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.
| Basketball Nightmare | |
|---|---|
 European cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Sega[2] |
| Publisher(s) | Sega[2] |
| Designer(s) | Tommy Ha Okorarenai Ore Tensai Yamguchi Watashi Tomocyan Ga Iina Yasuo Te Wakatuki |
| Composer(s) | Tokiwa Dota[3] Ice Nagakura |
| Platform(s) | Master System[2] |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Sports (basketball) |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Gameplay
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The player is the captain of the hometown basketball team. Before he could prepare his team to win the all-American tournament, he started having strange dreams about playing basketball in exotic locations against strange creatures.[4]
First level is against werewolves in a forest.
Second level is against Kappas (water imps) 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) in a bamboo forest.
Sixth level is against a troop of Tengu in a shrine.
Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformed anime style.[5] 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).[4]
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.[4]
Reception
editBoth Zero magazine[6] and Console XS gave it an 88%.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Preview" (PDF). Computer and Video Games (Computer & Video Games (UK), "December 1989"): 158–159. 16 November 1989.
- ^ a b c Basketball Nightmare at GameFAQs
- ^ Composer/designer information at Sega Retro
- ^ a b c Overview of Basketball Nightmare at MobyGames
- ^ Advanced overview of Basketball Nightmare at 1UP! Games (in French)
- ^ "Basketball Nightmare". Zero. No. 5. Dennis Publishing. March 1990. p. 54.
- ^ "Software A-Z: Master System". Console XS. No. 1 (June/July 1992). United Kingdom: Paragon Publishing. 23 April 1992. pp. 137–47.
External links
edit- Basketball Nightmare at MobyGames
- Basketball Nightmare can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive