Basketball Nightmare

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

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

The game revolves around playing basketball against the undead in a cemetery-based court. The player, a team captain, faces various exotic creatures such as werewolves, vampires, geisha, and samurai warriors in different locations. Players can choose between 15, 30, or 45-minute games, and fouls such as traveling, charging, and pushing can be called. The game also has an alternate mode for "international basketball."

Basketball Nightmare received an 88% score from both Zero magazine and Console XS.

Gameplay
Players have to play against the undead in a basketball court that is secluded in a cemetery.

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

Zero magazine gave it an 88% score.[5] Console XS also gave it an 88% score.[6]

References
  1. Basketball Nightmare at GameFAQs
  2. Composer/designer information at Sega Retro
  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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