Basketball Nightmare
Basketball Nightmare is a 1989 sports video game 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.
Basketball Nightmare
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• Title — Basketball Nightmare • Developer — Aicom • Publisher — Sega • Composer — Tokiwa Dota Ice Nagakura • Designer — Tommy Ha Okorarenai Ore Tensai Yamguchi Watashi Tomocyan Ga Iina Yasuo Te Wakatuki • Released — December 1989 • Genre — Sports (basketball) • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Master System
Gameplay
Gameplay
• Illustration — 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. These creatures include werewolves, kappas, hitotsume-kozō, vampires, Yama-uba, and tengu. Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformed anime style. 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.
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Basketball Nightmare is associated with Japan.
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Both Zero magazine and Console XS gave it an 88%.
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- 1.Basketball Nightmare at GameFAQs
- 2.Composer/designer information at Sega Retro
- 3.Preview. Computer and Video Games. 97. 158-159. December 1989.
- 4.Overview of Basketball Nightmare at MobyGames
- 5.Advanced overview of Basketball Nightmare at 1UP! Games
- 6.Dennis Publishing. Basketball Nightmare. Zero. 5. 54. March 1990.
- 7.Paragon Publishing. Software A-Z: Master System. Console XS. 1 (June/July 1992). 137–47. 23 April 1992.
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