Bases Loaded | |
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Developer(s) | Jaleco Tose (NES version) |
Publisher(s) | Jaleco |
Designer(s) | Nobukazu Ota (NES version) |
Programmer(s) | Tetsuji Tanaka (NES version) |
Composer(s) | Kouji Murata, Akihito Hayashi (NES version) |
Platform(s) | NES, Game Boy |
Release | NES
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Genre(s) | Sports: Baseball |
Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
Bases Loaded[a] is a baseball video game by Jaleco that was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was first released in 1987 in Japan and in 1988 in North America, and a Game Boy port was released in July of 1990. A mobile phone version exists as well. For the Virtual Console, Bases Loaded was released on September 11, 2007, in Japan and on April 7, 2008, in North America for the Wii, and on May 15, 2013, in Japan and on July 10, 2014, in North America for Nintendo 3DS.[2][3][4][5] The Wii U version in North America (which later released in Japan on October 22, 2014) was also released at the same time as the Nintendo 3DS version.[6][7] A port by Mebius and Clarice Games for the PlayStation 4 was released in Japan in 2015.[8]
The game is the first installment of the Bases Loaded series, followed by seven sequels across three generations of consoles. There are three more video games in the Bases Loaded NES series, Bases Loaded II: Second Season, Bases Loaded 3 and Bases Loaded 4. There was also a Game Boy version of Bases Loaded. The series continued onto the SNES platform with Super Bases Loaded, Super Bases Loaded 2, and Super Bases Loaded 3. The final entry to the series was Bases Loaded '96: Double Header, released for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation.
Bases Loaded is also the first in a series of sports games by Jaleco known in Japan as Moero!!. Baseball games were localized in the Western markets as the Bases Loaded series while the basketball game was localized as Hoops, the tennis game as Racket Attack and the soccer game as Goal!. Two titles went unlocalized: a baseball game Shin Moero!! Pro Yakyū and a judo game Moero!! Juudou Warriors.
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