Smurf Basketball

Smurf Basketball is an American-Belgian sports comedy video game based on The Smurfs. The game is produced by Warner Bros. Interactive. It is also one of the Smurfs-related games to not be produced by Infogrames.

Sypnosis
Gargamel sends a team of monster basketball players from the future to abduct the Smurfs through a UFO and force the blue creatures to play a basketball game against them. If the Smurfs win, they are set free. If they lose, they will be turned into gold by Gargamel.

Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to the 1995 Looney Tunes basketball game Looney Tunes B-Ball.

Trivia

 * This game is considered non-canon to the whole Smurfs franchise.
 * Early concepts had numbers on the Smurf basketball player's jerseys. This was changed to a Smurf symbol to save time.
 * This game featured fully-voiced traditionally animated cutscenes. Those scenes were directed by David Silverman, layouts by Scott Shaw, and animated by Kevin Petrilak and Mike Kazelah.