Basketball Nightmare
{{Short description|1989 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
|title=Basketball Nightmare
|image=BasketballNightmareTitleScreenSMS.PNG
|caption=European cover art
|developer=Sega[http://www.gamefaqs.com/sms/570198-basketball-nightmare/data Basketball Nightmare] at GameFAQs
|composer=Tokiwa Dota[http://www.segaretro.org/Basketball_Nightmare Composer/designer information] at Sega Retro
Ice Nagakura
|designer=Tommy Ha Okorarenai
Ore Tensai Yamguchi
Watashi Tomocyan Ga Iina
Yasuo Te Wakatuki
|released={{Video game release|EU|December 1989{{cite magazine |date=16 November 1989 |title=Preview |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/6/61/CVG_UK_097.pdf |magazine=Computer and Video Games |publisher=Future plc |issue=97 |pages=158-159}}}}
|genre=Sports (basketball)
|modes=Single-player, multiplayer
|platforms=Master System
}}
Basketball Nightmare is a 1989 sports video game developed and published by Sega for the Master System. The game sees the player playing games of basketball against various different teams made up of different monsters, primarily hailing from Japanese mythology.
Gameplay
File:BasketballNightmareCemeteryCourt.png 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.[http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-master-system/basketball-nightmare Overview of Basketball Nightmare] at MobyGames These creatures include werewolves, kappas, hitotsume-kozō, vampires, Yama-uba, and tengu. Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformed anime style.[http://www.1up-games.com/sms/basketballnightmare.html Advanced overview of Basketball Nightmare] at 1UP! Games {{in lang|fr}}
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).
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.
Reception
Both Zero magazine{{cite magazine |title=Basketball Nightmare |magazine=Zero |date=March 1990 |issue=5 |publisher=Dennis Publishing |page=54 |url=https://archive.org/stream/zero-magazine-05/Zero_05_Mar_1990#page/n53}} and Console XS gave it an 88%.{{cite magazine |title=Software A-Z: Master System |magazine=Console XS |date=23 April 1992 |issue=1 (June/July 1992) |publisher=Paragon Publishing |location=United Kingdom |pages=137–47 |url=https://archive.org/details/console-xs-01/page/137}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{moby game|id=/basketball-nightmare}}
- {{IAg|segasms_Basket_Ball_Nightmare_1989_Sega}}
Category:Basketball video games
Category:Master System-only games