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 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]

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

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Preview" (PDF). Computer and Video Games (Computer & Video Games (UK), "December 1989"): 158–159. 16 November 1989.
  2. ^ a b c Basketball Nightmare at GameFAQs
  3. ^ Composer/designer information at Sega Retro
  4. ^ a b c 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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