Basketball Nightmare
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| 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 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]
The first level is against werewolves in the forest. Then, the gameplay involves into a game against the vampires inside a cave of skeletons before progressing into games against geisha and even against a troop of samurai warriors. 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
- ^ a b c d 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
- Basketball Nightmare at MobyGames
- Basketball Nightmare can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive