Sega2 Mini Video Games #4 - Shadow Basketball

This is the latest mini video game from McDonald's - Shadow Basketball. I reckon Shadow thinks of himself as something of a bad ass, posing in that confrontational attitude. ;) Unfortunately, the game places you on his side, so you can't do a full on body block to show him who's in charge of the court here.

The plastic wrap shows Shadow in either a "come get some" or "I'm doing some serious air" pose, I can't decide which. ;) The color theme of this mini video game is black, with a see through black casing.

The manual now comes in the double printed English/Chinese instructions we saw in the previous game in the series.

Here's what the Shadow Basketball handheld game looks like. It's on a vertical play field.

Shadow Basketball is the most complex game to date - it has two yellow arrow keys to move Shadow left, right or center and a red button for Shadow to take a shot.

Here's a look at the pre-painted color background...it shows the three pointer circle of the opponent's end.

Shadow Basketball starts out with one robot looking defender trying to block your shots at the hoop. Shadow can score if the robot is not in front of the shot angle. He can also score if the robot is in front of the shot angle, but the robot's hands needs to be down, or "off guard". The robot blocks the shot when its hands are up during an attempt at the hoop. The game increases the number of robot defenders up to three and also steps up the speed of their repetitive blocking attempts.

I took a video of the game play, including the final stage, and the winning animation. This is taken as macro as the first video is barely viewable. Rest assured, this one is perfectly clear:

Download: Shadow Basketball [sixthseal.com]

I don't know why I kept referring to Shadow Basketball as Knuckles Basketball in the video. Something must have confused me. ;) It's Shadow Basketball.

Despite the apparent complexity, it's not that hard to make blind shots and win. I won during the first attempt and the winning animation shows Shadow taking shots from all three angles.