Bad News Baseball

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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

What if a baseball game took the sport seriously but refused to take itself seriously at all? That is the formula behind Bad News Baseball, Tecmo's cartoon take on the national pastime, released in Japan as Gekitō!! Stadium and brought to North America in 1990. The umpires are rabbits. Home runs and close plays trigger animated cutscenes. Batters can be knocked out cold by a wild pitch, and runners can get flattened on a force out. And underneath all of that, it plays surprisingly real baseball.

Twelve teams split into the Ultra League and the Super League, each loosely modeled on a Major League city with matching colors but no real nicknames, and there is no designated hitter. Every roster carries fourteen batters and six pitchers, and pitchers have stamina ratings that take several games to recover, so rotating your staff matters. Four pitch types, stolen bases, pinch hitters and pinch runners give each game real strategy, and games that stay tied after twelve innings end in a draw, just as in Japanese professional baseball.

Your goal is to beat every other team in the league, with a password after each game saving which clubs you have conquered and how rested your pitchers are. Spectator mode lets the CPU play itself, All-Star games add another option, and every game can be played by one player against the computer or two players head to head.

This is the same Tecmo that made Tecmo Bowl, and it shares that game's quick, readable feel. Bad News Baseball is a two-player favorite that still gets laughs, and proof that 8-bit baseball can be both a real strategy game and a cartoon full of rabbit umpires and pratfalls.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB

Released: 1989
Publisher: Tecmo
Genre: Puzzle, Sports
Players: Single player, Multiplayer

About the game

Bad News Baseball was developed and published by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989, and released in North America in 1990. It followed the rules of baseball for the most part, with the addition of some cartoonish features that made the game more attractive to kids.

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Watch gameplayBad News Baseball on NES

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