Cover art of R.B.I. Baseball
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Developer(s) | Namco Atari Games |
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Publisher(s) |
Namco Tengen Domark Software (home computer ports) |
Designer(s) | Peter Lipson |
Composer(s) | Junko Ozawa, Brad Fuller, Don Diekneite, John Paul, Kent Carmical |
Series | R.B.I. Baseball |
Platform(s) |
Nintendo_VS._System Nintendo Entertainment System |
Release date(s) | 1991 (home computer ports) |
Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) |
Single-player Multiplayer |
Nintendo_VS._System Nintendo Entertainment System
Sega Genesis/Megadrive
TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
Sega 32X
Commodore Amiga
Super NES
Sega Game Gear
ZX Spectrum
R.B.I. Baseball (known as Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium in Japan) is a baseball video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The original version, developed by Namco, was released in Japan in 1986. R.B.I. spawned two sequels on the NES as well as numerous ports to home computers and consoles. R.B.I. is an initialism for "run batted in".
Namco developed and released Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium (also known as Family Stadium) for the Family Computer (the Japanese version of the NES) in December 1986. Family Stadium was a success and spawned numerous sequels across a variety of platforms in Japan. Atari Games released a Nintendo Vs. Series arcade machine of Family Stadium named Atari R.B.I. Baseball in 1987 which was also successful, so its programmer, Peter Lipson, developed a console version for the NES which was published by Atari Games' subsidiary Tengen.