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.
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 having strange dreams about playing basketball in exotic locations against strange creatures.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.Advanced overview of Basketball Nightmare at 1UP! Games
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 and Console XS gave it an 88%.
See also Mutant League Football
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