Super Batter Up
| Super Batter Up | |
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Packaging for the Super NES version.
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| Publisher(s) | Namco |
| Designer(s) | Masahiro Shimamoto |
| Composer(s) | Yoshinori Kawamoto Shinya Yamada |
| Series | Family Stadium |
| Platform(s) | Super NES |
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| Genre(s) | Traditional sports(arcade baseball) |
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Single-player Multiplayer |
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Super Batter Up (スーパーファミスタ Super Famista?) is a baseball video game with both a one- and two-player mode plus a league mode.
The North American release has an official license from the Major League Baseball Players Association and features the names of actual professional baseball players. However, it does not have a license from Major League Baseball, so no actual team names are used, only their respective cities. While the all-star mode in the Japanese version of the game closely mimics the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, the North American version of the game emulates the MLB All-Star Game. An intrasquad mode (found only in the Japanese version) allows players on the same time to face off against each other. The only limitations are that there are only five pitchers on each team, players cannot be changed, and uniforms are limited to red and white colors.
The game features teams representing the 26 Major League Baseball teams and their players from the 1991 Major League Baseball season. Ballplayers who competed during that baseball season like Cal Ripken, Dave Winfield, and Kirby Puckett are included. However, the Japanese version was released featuring teams and actual player names from the Nippon Professional Baseball league. Players get to play in either a dome resembling the Tokyo Dome in Japan or Rogers Centre in Toronto, a contemporary baseball stadium (with homages to Japan's Koshien Stadium or Chicago's Wrigley Field), or in traditional-style stadium style (reminiscent of Chiba Marine Stadium in Japan or Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis). Each player in the Japanese version of the game has a popularity meter that gauges how liked they are by the audience; better players are more likely to be cheered on for an excellent play.
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