World Class Baseball

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World Class Baseball
TurboGrafx-16 World Class Baseball cover art.jpg
Developer(s)Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)
SeriesPower League
Platform(s)TurboGrafx-16, Virtual Console, X68000
ReleaseTurboGrafx-16
  • JP: June 24, 1988
  • NA: 1989
X68000
  • JP: December 1988
Virtual Console
  • NA: September 17, 2007
  • EU: September 21, 2007
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

World Class Baseball is a baseball video game originally released for the NEC PC Engine in 1988. It was re-released for the Wii Virtual Console service in North America on September 17, 2007, and in PAL regions on September 21, 2007.

Gameplay[]

World Class Baseball features 12 teams that must be defeated in the single player Pennant Mode, a knockout competition. Upon defeating all teams, the player faces off against the Turbo Tigers, a non-player selectable team of all-stars. The game also gives the option for players to compete in a one or two player versus exhibition game, or to watch two computer controlled teams play each other.

Teams[]

  • Turbo Tigers (Hudson Bees in Japanese version)
North Division
* Tokyo Ninjas
* New York Apples
* L.A. Stars
* Toronto Towers
* Chicago Winds
* London Lords		 South Division
* Paris Fries
* Rome Togas
* Moscow Bears
* Peking Ducks
* Bangkok Buddhas
* Sydney Sharks

Reception[]

In November 1993, Famitsu magazine's Reader Cross Review gave the game a 5 out of 10.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Siegk, Matthias (July 1989). "BASEBALL: SEGA contra PC-ENGINE - Offener Schlagabtausch zweier Konsolen... — Power League Baseball". Aktueller Software Markt (in German). No. 33. Tronic Verlag. pp. 66–67.
  2. ^ Whitehead, Dan (September 24, 2007). "Virtual Console Roundup - Ninja ninja baseball". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. ^ a b "読者クロスレビュー: スーパーパワーリーグ". Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 257. ASCII Corporation. November 12–19, 1993. p. 40.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  4. ^ "World Class Baseball Review (TG-16) - Batter up!". Nintendo Life. Nlife Media. September 17, 2007. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  5. ^ "Best And Worst Of 1989 - Best Sports-Themed Video Game". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 5. Sendai Publishing. December 1989. p. 18.
  6. ^ "TurboPlay Rates the Games - Volume 2: World Class Baseball". TurboPlay. No. 11. Larry Flynt Publications. February–March 1992. p. 30.

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