HardBall IV

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HardBall IV
MS-DOS HardBall 4 cover art.jpg
DOS cover art
Developer(s) MindSpan
Publisher(s) Accolade [lower-alpha 1]
Warner Interactive Entertainment Europe (MS-DOS, EU)
Producer(s) Pam Levins
Programmer(s) Jeff Sember
Mike Benna
Artist(s) Dale Mauk
John Boechler
Karen Hinds
Composer(s) Brian Shaw
Series HardBall!
Platform(s) DOS, Sega Genesis
ReleaseDOSGenesis
  • NA: 1994
  • EU: July 1994
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

HardBall IV is a video game developed by MindSpan and published by Accolade for the Sega Genesis as HardBall '94 and later for DOS.

Contents

Gameplay

HardBall IV is a baseball game featuring Super VGA computer graphics. [1]

Release

A port of HardBall IV for the Atari Jaguar was in development by High Voltage Software, but it was never released. [2]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "you've got a top-notch simulation of America's favorite sport." [1]

Notes

  1. Released under the Sport Accolade banner on MS-DOS in the US, and the Ballistic label on the Genesis.

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References

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