Baseball (1983 video game)

This article is about the Nintendo-developed game. For other video games of the same name, see Baseball (disambiguation).

Baseball
North American NES box art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto[4]
Composer(s)Yukio Kaneoka
Hirokazu Tanaka
SeriesMario[a]
Platform(s)Famicom/NES
Arcade
Famicom Disk System
Game Boy
Release
  • Famicom/NES
    • JP: December 7, 1983
    • NA: October 18, 1985
    • EU: September 1, 1986
    VS. Baseball (arcade)
  • List of re-releases
    • Famicom Disk System:
      • JP: February 21, 1986
    • Game Boy:
      • JP: April 21, 1989
      • NA: July 31, 1989[3]
      • EU: September 28, 1990
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, two-player
Arcade systemPlayChoice-10, Nintendo VS. System

Baseball[b] is a baseball video game developed and published by Nintendo. It was originally released December 7, 1983, after the July 15 launch of the Famicom in Japan.[5] In 1984, it was ported to the VS. System arcade as VS. Baseball with additional graphics and speech, becoming a number one hit in Japan and North America that year. It was localized as a Nintendo Entertainment System launch game in North America in 1985,[6] and in Europe in 1986.[7] IGN said the universal appeal of the American sport made Baseball a key to the NES's successful test market introduction, and an important piece of Nintendo history.[8] The game was also competing with Sega's arcade hit Champion Baseball, released earlier in 1983.

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  3. ^ White, Dave (July 1989). "Electronic Gaming Monthly". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 3. p. 68.
  4. ^ Kohler, Chris. "Miyamoto Spills Donkey Kong's Darkest Secrets, 35 Years Later". Wired. Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
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  6. ^ Matt (March 28, 2020). "All 30 Black Box Nes Games Guide (Including Pricing)". MCMROSE. Archived from the original on April 12, 2021. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  7. ^ "NES Game List (Europe) | NinDB". nindb.net. Archived from the original on May 16, 2021. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference NES Baseball at IGN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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