Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95

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Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95
Developer(s)Diamond Head
Publisher(s)Konami
Platform(s)Original version
PlayStation
Kaimaku-ban
PlayStation
Sega Saturn
ReleaseOriginal version
  • JP: December 22, 1994
Kaimaku-ban
  • JP: July 14, 1995 (PS)
  • JP: July 28, 1995 (SS)
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95[a] is a video game developed by Diamond Head and published by Konami for the PlayStation. It is part of the Power Pros series. In 1995 an updated version titled Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 Kaimaku-ban[b] was released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

Gameplay[edit]

Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 is a Japanese baseball game featuring players with oversized heads.[1]

Reception[edit]

Japanese video game magazine Famitsu awarded all three version of the game a 31/40 score.[2][3] Sega Saturn Magazine rated the Saturn version 21/30.[4] Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game as "Power Baseball", rating it one star out of five, and stated that "This game could not only have been done on a 16-bit machine, but it could have been done better. [...] The gameplay is no better than average and somehow manages to match the graphics in nonrealism. Play ball, but play it with another game."[1]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Japanese: 実況パワフルプロ野球'95, Hepburn: Jikkyō Pawafuru Puro Yakyū '95
  2. ^ Japanese: 実況パワフルプロ野球'95開幕版, Hepburn: Jikkyō Pawafuru Puro Yakyū '95 Kaimaku-ban

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Finals". Next Generation. No. 8. Imagine Media. August 1995. pp. 68–69.
  2. ^ "実況パワフルプロ野球'95 開幕版 (PS)の関連情報 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com" [Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 Opening Edition]. Famitsu. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018.
  3. ^ "実況パワフルプロ野球'95開幕版". Famitsu. 1995-08-04. p. 33.
  4. ^ "実況パワフルプロ野球'95開幕版". Sega Saturn Magazine. August 1995. p. 144.