Baseball Stars - Be a champ!
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Baseball Stars: Be a champ! (Baseball Star - Mezase Sankanou) is a 2-player baseball
arcade game
released by SNK
in 1989
, and licensed to Nintendo
. It was one of the first sports games to have data memory, therefore players could pick a team and make a season, while being able to save season statistics. It was also the first sports game to have a 'Create a player' feature. Although the game did not use any names of real life baseball players, one of the computerized teams, the 'American Dreams', included players with nicknames such as Pete (Pete Rose
), Hank (Hank Aaron) and Ruth (Babe Ruth
).
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
arcade game
Arcade game
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...
released by SNK
SNK Playmore
SNK Playmore Corporation is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. SNK is an acronym of , which was SNK's original name. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986....
in 1989
1989 in video gaming
-Notable releases:* October 3, Brøderbund releases the Prince of Persia game, the first in a series of games, noted for its advancements in animation....
, and licensed to Nintendo
Nintendo
is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....
. It was one of the first sports games to have data memory, therefore players could pick a team and make a season, while being able to save season statistics. It was also the first sports game to have a 'Create a player' feature. Although the game did not use any names of real life baseball players, one of the computerized teams, the 'American Dreams', included players with nicknames such as Pete (Pete Rose
Pete Rose
Peter Edward Rose , nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989....
), Hank (Hank Aaron) and Ruth (Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth, Jr. , best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935...
).
Series
- 1. Baseball Stars: Be a Champ! (1989)
- 2. Baseball Stars ProfessionalBaseball Stars ProfessionalBaseball Stars Professional is a 2-player baseball arcade game released by SNK in 1990.-Series:*1. Baseball Stars *2. Baseball Stars Professional *3. Baseball Stars 2 -External links:* at...
(1990) - 3. Baseball Stars 2Baseball Stars 2Baseball Stars 2 is a 2-player baseball arcade game released by SNK in 1992 for the Neo-Geo console. A less cartoony console version was released for the NES by Romstar the same year....
(1992) - 4. Baseball StarsBaseball StarsBaseball Stars, released in Japan as , is a baseball video game developed by SNK. It was released for the NES in . It became a major hit in many countries worldwide, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico...
(1989-98)