Baseball Advance

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Baseball Advance
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North American packaging artwork
Developer(s) Smilebit
Publisher(s)
Director(s) Takaya Segawa
Designer(s) Tomoko Hasegawa
Noboru Yoshizawa
Composer(s) Teruhiko Nakagawa
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance
Release
  • NA: March 19, 2002 [1]
  • JP: August 8, 2002
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player

Baseball Advance (released in Japan as Greatest Nine) is a sports game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, developed by Smilebit and released by THQ in March 2002. It was generally praised by critics upon its release. [2] The game is the final entry in the Greatest Nine series.

Contents

Game mechanics

Game modes

There are four modes of games available.

Playing Fields

All thirty teams from the Major League are available for selection. Only four stadiums (Safeco Field, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and Pacific Bell Park) are available within the game, and all teams have one of these as their home ground regardless of where they come from. A planned Sega-themed stadium was created but ultimately not included because it did not fit with the game's more serious tone. [3]

Player statistics

All player statistics in Exhibition Mode, Playoffs and the All-Star Game are those of the 2001 season. However, in Season mode, their stats are completely dependent on the results of each game played, meaning that the player has control of them. The game keeps all player statistics, such as batting average, ERA, RBI, season strikeouts and more. The game also has a history of records for seasonal stats and single game stats which the player can break as well.

Japanese Differences

The teams in the Japanese version are the Swallows, Giants, Baystars, Carp, Dragons, Tigers, Bufaloes, Hawks, Lions, Bluewave, Marines, and Fighters. [4] It features four stadiums: Tokyo Dome, Hanshin Koshien Stadium, Seibu Dome, and Green Stadium Kobe. Additionally, the menu art, layout, and some of the music and sound effects have been changed.

Reception

Baseball Advance was a runner-up for GameSpot's annual "Best Sports Game on Game Boy Advance" award, which went to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 . [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "PR - 3/19/02 - THQ AND SEGA SHIP BASEBALL ADVANCE FOR GAME BOY ADVANCE". 2004-04-16. Archived from the original on 2004-04-16. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  2. ↑ "Baseball Advance reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 11 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
  3. ↑ Team Xbox. "Famitsu XBox Interviews Toshihiro Nagoshi". Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "File:GreatestNine GBA JP Box Front.JPG". Sega Retro. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  5. ↑ GameSpot Staff (December 30, 2002). "GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2002". GameSpot . Archived from the original on February 7, 2003.
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