VR Baseball '99

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VR Baseball '99
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Developer(s) VR Sports
Publisher(s) Interplay Entertainment
Platform(s) PlayStation
Release
  • NA: May 22, 1998 [1]
  • EU: January 1999
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Singleplayer, multiplayer

VR Baseball 99 is a video game developed by VR Sports and published by Interplay for PlayStation in 1998.

Contents

An enhanced version of the game for Microsoft Windows, VR Baseball 2000 , was released in October 1998.

Reception

The game received above-average reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [2] Next Generation said, "It may not be as complex as MLB '99 , but VR Baseball will provide several hours of simple, clean, baseball pleasure." [9]

Notes

  1. ↑ In GameFan 's early viewpoint of the game, one critic gave it 89, and the other 88.
  2. ↑ GamePro gave the game two 4/5 scores for graphics and overall fun factor, 3/5 for sound, and 4.5/5 for control.

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References

  1. ↑ "VR BASEBALL '99 HITS STORE SHELVES WITH AN IMPROVED LOOK AND AGGRESSIVE ATTITUDE". VR Sports. May 22, 1998. Archived from the original on August 19, 2000. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "VR Baseball 99 for PlayStation". GameRankings . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 2, 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Sutyak, Jonathan. "VR Baseball 99 - Review". AllGame . All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ EGM staff (August 1998). "VR Baseball 99". Electronic Gaming Monthly . No. 109. Ziff Davis.
  5. ↑ "VR Baseball '99". Game Informer . No. 63. FuncoLand. July 1998. Archived from the original on September 14, 1999. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ Higgins, Geoff "El Nino"; Mowatt, Todd "Video Cowboy" (June 1998). "VR Baseball '99". GameFan . Vol. 6, no. 6. Metropolis Media. p. 54. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  7. ↑ Air Hendrix (July 1998). "VR Baseball '99". GamePro . No. 118. IDG Entertainment. p. 76. Archived from the original on January 16, 2005. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  8. ↑ MacDonald, Ryan (June 24, 1998). "VR Baseball 99 Review [date mislabeled as "May 2, 2000"]". GameSpot . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 12, 2005. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  9. 1 2 "VR Baseball '99". Next Generation . No. 46. Imagine Media. October 1998. p. 126. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  10. ↑ "VR Baseball 99". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine . Vol. 1, no. 11. Ziff Davis. August 1998.


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