World Series Baseball (1995 video game)

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World Series Baseball
Sega Saturn World Series Baseball cover art.jpg
North American box art, featuring Mike Piazza
Developer(s) Sega
Publisher(s) Sega [a]
Director(s) Tetsuo Shinyu
Producer(s) Chris Cutliff
Hirotsugu Kobayashi
Makoto Oshitani
Designer(s) Tomoko Hasegawa
Yoshiaki Kitagawa
Programmer(s) Ichirō Kasai
Kenichi Yamaguchi
Manabu Ishihara
Artist(s) Hideaki Moriya
Kō Tanaka
Kōki Mogi
Writer(s) Marc Sherrod
Composer(s) Katsuyoshi Nitta
Miki Obata
Series World Series Baseball
Platform(s) Sega Saturn
Release
Genre(s) Sports (baseball)
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

World Series Baseball [b] is a 1995 baseball video game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn.

Contents

Gameplay

World Series Baseball is a version of World Series Baseball . [5]

Development and release

The game was released in Japan for the Game Gear as Hideo Nomo's World Series Baseball on December 1, 1995. [4]

It was released in 1995 for the Game Gear and Sega Genesis.

Reception

World Series Baseball for Saturn won the 1995 Game Players award for Best Sports Game. [6]

In 1996, Next Generation listed World Series Baseball as number 48 on their "Top 100 Games of All Time", commenting that, "This is the best-looking and best-playing baseball videogame of all time." [5]

Notes

  1. Released under the Sega Sports banner.
  2. Also known as Hideo Nomo's World Series Baseball (Japanese: 野茂英雄ワールドシリーズベースボール, Hepburn: Nomo Hideo Wārudo Shirīzu Bēsubōru) in Japan.

References

  1. "セガサターン対応ソフトウェア(ライセンシー発売)- 1994・1995年発売". SEGA HARD Encyclopedia (in Japanese). Sega. 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  2. "Next Wave - Saturn - World Series Baseball". Electronic Gaming Monthly . No. 77. Sendai Publishing. December 1995. p. 228.
  3. Leadbetter, Richard (November 1995). "Saturn Review - World Series Baseball". Sega Saturn Magazine . No. 1. EMAP. pp. 76–77.
  4. 1 2 3 Tsūshin, Hamamura; Hada, Takayuki; Watanabe, Miki; Uchisawa, Goro (December 8, 1995). "New Games Cross Review". Weekly Famicom Tsūshin (in Japanese). No. 364. ASCII Corporation. p. 33.
  5. 1 2 "Top 100 Games of All Time". Next Generation . No. 21. Imagine Media. September 1996. p. 52.
  6. "Game Players - Awards - Best Game Gear Game". Game Players . No. 79. Signal Research. Christmas 1995. pp. 15–41.