Basketball Nightmare

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.

First level is against werewolves in a forest.

Second level is against Kappas (water imps / little turtles) in a pond.

Third level is against Hitotsume-kozō (child cyclops) next to a rainfalls.

Fourth level is against vampires inside a cave of skeletons.

Fifth level is against a team of Yama-uba (witches) on a bamboo forest.

Sixth level is against a troop of Tengu on a shrine.

Each opposing player is represented in a super-deformed anime style. 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).

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%.