Ninja Baseball Bat Man
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| Ninja Baseball Bat Man | |
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 European arcade flyer of Ninja Baseball Bat Man. |
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| Developer(s) | Irem |
| Publisher(s) | Irem |
| Designer(s) | Drew Maniscalco[citation needed] |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release date(s) | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Scrolling fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Up to 4 players simultaneously[1] |
| Input methods | 8-way joystick; 2 buttons |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Display | Raster, standard resolution |
Ninja Baseball Bat Man (known in Japan as Yakyū Kakutō League Man (野球格闘リーグマン Yakyū Kakutō Rīgu Man, "Baseball Hand-to-Hand Fighting League Man")) is an arcade game produced by Irem based on characters developed by Drew Maniscalco[citation needed] in 1993. It is a side-scrolling beat-em-up that features quirky, baseball-themed ninjas and enemies.
[edit] Gameplay
The game allows up to four players to play simultaneously. Each player chooses from among four characters: Captain Jose (6'1", 174 lbs), Twinbats Ryno (5'7", 145 lbs), Beanball Roger (5'9", 240 lbs), and Stick Straw (7'2", 194 lbs). Each character attacks with (one or more) baseball bats, has his own set of special abilities, and has one extremely powerful maneuver that sacrifices health in order to annihilate every enemy on the screen. Jose is well-balanced, Straw has tremendous range, Ryno is speedy and wields two bats, and Roger is especially powerful. Their purpose is to recover various artifacts stolen from the Baseball Hall of Fame, a task prescribed to them by the Commissioner of Baseball.
Ninja Baseball Bat Man is extremely similar to many games released near the same time, including The Simpsons and X-Men. The game is not particularly innovative as far as gameplay, but its quirkiness and strangeness definitely set it apart from other similar beat-em-up games. The special abilities of each character are much like the mutant powers of X-Men, but the Ninja Baseball Bat Men are more versatile in their skill sets.
An advertisement poster for Mahou Keibitai Gun Hoki (known as Mystic Riders outside of Japan), another arcade game by Irem, appears in the first stage of Ninja Baseball Bat Man.
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[edit] External links
- Ninja Baseball Bat Man at Hardcore Gaming 101
- Ninja Baseball Bat Man at MAWS
- Ninja Baseball Bat Man at arcade-history
- Ninja Baseball Bat Man at the Killer List of Videogames
- Ninja Baseball Bat Man at GameFAQs
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