Super Bases Loaded

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Super Bases Loaded
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North America cover art
Developer(s) Tose
Publisher(s) Jaleco [1]
Composer(s) Tatsuya Nishimura
Platform(s) Super NES [1]
Release
Genre(s) Sports [1]
Mode(s) Single-player
Multiplayer (up to 2 players)

Super Bases Loaded is a baseball video game produced by Jaleco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. It is the fifth overall installment of the Bases Loaded series, and first installment of the secondary series for the Super NES. This game was originally released in Japan under the title Super Professional Baseball (スーパープロフェッショナルベースボール) in Japan. [2]

Contents

The North American version includes a sponsorship from Ryne Sandberg, like Bases Loaded 3 for the NES.

Professional teams

The player can also edit their own team in this game.

Reception

David Upchurch of ACE praised the gameplay but was critical of the graphics and sound. [3] Ashley Summers of Raze considered the baseball players to be realistically drawn and animated, but wrote that the crowd "looks like mush". Summers praised the music, but criticized the "muffled and repetitive" dialogue. [4] Chris Rice of N-Force praised the gameplay and sound effects, but concluded that it was a "good game let down by poor graphics and an unfinished look!" [5]

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References

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  2. "Japanese title". Superfamicom.org. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
  3. 1 2 Upchurch, David (August 1991). "Super Professional Baseball". ACE. p. 76.
  4. 1 2 Summers, Ashley (September 1991). "Super Professional Baseball". Raze. p. 34.
  5. 1 2 Rice, Chris; Rowley, Carl (September 1992). "Super Bases Loaded". N-Force. pp. 5, 70–71.