Basketball Nightmare is a 1989 European exclusive release for the Sega Master System.
Plot[]
Hometown High. Its basketball team has had good years...and bad years. You're the captain and it's your senior year. Luckily, (you like to think it's because you are a good player who's going to play college ball), the Home Bous (that's your team!) have never done better. You've blitzed the last three tournaments and your picture has been in the papers. Now, you've got a shot at the All-American High school Championship! Teams from all over the world are going to play! It's almost too awesome for words.
So you went to sleep the night before the start of the championship. You were really nervous about the upcoming game; tossing and turning...wishing you could practice just a little more. Finally you fell asleep...you thought.
There was a knock at your window. There, floating outside, 25 feet above the ground, was a strange-looking guy. "Hey, Cappy!" he said. "Want to come play some 'hoops' with me and the guys?" You looked down and saw you were wearing your uniform. You thought "It seems like the thing to do," and told him, "Sure." Suddenly you were floating outside next to him. He smiled, and you noticed he had very sharp teeth. But it was too late for second thoughts.
When you got to the mountain the Home Boys were waiting for you. Each had been taken from a sound sleep. You told them that they had to play like their lives depended on winning...which indeed they might! The weird critter told you that if you could beat all the monster teams, you would have no problem winning the All-American Championship.
You began the first game. These little creatures were good! They could make aerial slam dunks! But your team played harder than they ever had before. As you won games, you were led to more basketball courts in even more scary locations deep in the mountain forest.
Suddenly it was too much! You screamed and...woke up? Was it a dream? Did you really get the extra practice you thought you needed? Get ready to play the basketball game of your life. Today is the day of the Championship...
-Master System manual
Gameplay[]
Players take on the role of the human basketball team, and can choose from matches lasting either a 15, 30 or 45 minute game, although these timings are exaggerated as a "15 minute" game roughly translates to 7 actual minutes.
After selecting the game time, the player must try to overcome six rounds of basketball against a variety of monsters:
- Round 1: Werewolves
- Round 2: Kappas
- Round 3: Hitotsume-kozō/Cyclops
- Round 4: Vampires
- Round 5: Yama-uba
- Round 6: Tengu
Players may retry against the opposing team if they lose a round until they defeat them.
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Trivia[]
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