Bad News Baseball

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Bad News Baseball
Image:Bad News Baseball Coverart.png
Developer(s) Tecmo
Publisher(s) Tecmo
License Commercial
Engine Proprietary
Platform(s) NES
Release date(s) JP December 15, 1989
NA 1990
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) CPU vs. CPU, Single-player, and Two-player
Media Cartridge
Input methods Nintendo Entertainment System game controller(s)

Bad News Baseball, originally released as Gekitō!! Stadium (激闘スタジアム?, "Fierce Fighting!! Stadium") in Japan, is a baseball game for the Nintendo Entertainment System using real teams and a light-hearted attitude. The gameplay is relatively very hard and features use of cutscenes during close-call scenarios including slides and outs that end up being total lies. The bunny umpires call Balls as Strikes. The gameplay is somewhat counterintuitive, and novice players often find it difficult to make the players throw the ball to the correct base. Nonetheless, to those who take the time to master it, this remains one of the best loved classic sports games of all time.

The game lacked a season mode comparable to those of most modern baseball games. Instead, in the one-player mode the player's goal was to defeat every other team featured in the game in the order of their choosing. Wins and losses were not recorded, and the player could continue playing indefinitely until all other teams were defeated. While this meant that there was no set schedule of games, pitchers did have a stamina rating that once depleted would take several games worth of rest to recover from. In this way, the game somewhat simulated the idea of a pitching rotation.

Screenshot of Bad News Baseball. Here, Oakland is up to bat against L.A.

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