Basketball Nightmare

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Basketball Nightmare
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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 1989 sports video game developed and published by Sega for the Master System exclusively in Europe, Australia, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. The game sees the player playing games of basketball against various different teams made up of different monsters, primarily hailing from Japanese mythology.

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Gameplay

The Yama-uba (witches) team's home basketball court is secluded in a bamboo forest. BasketballNightmareCemeteryCourt.png
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 having strange dreams about playing basketball in exotic locations against strange creatures. [4] These creatures include werewolves, kappas, hitotsume-kozō, vampires, Yama-uba, and tengu. Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformed anime style. [5]

The player can replay the matches that they lost until they finally beat the opposing team. The player can 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

Both Zero magazine [6] and Console XS gave it an 88%. [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Basketball Nightmare at GameFAQs
  2. ↑ Composer/designer information at Sega Retro
  3. ↑ "Preview" (PDF). Computer and Video Games (Computer & Video Games (UK), "December 1989"): 158–159. 16 November 1989.
  4. 1 2 3 Overview of Basketball Nightmare at MobyGames
  5. ↑ Advanced overview of Basketball Nightmare at 1UP! Games (in French)
  6. ↑ "Basketball Nightmare". Zero . No. 5. Dennis Publishing. March 1990. p. 54.
  7. ↑ "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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