1990 · Krome Studios Melbourne · Baseball · Sports

Bo Jackson Baseball

Nintendo console exclusive

Bo Jackson Baseball, known as TV Sports: Baseball in Europe, was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and ported to the Amiga and IBM PC in 1990. The game is named after and features Bo Jackson, a professional baseball player in the 1980s.

Released: 1 October 1990
Platforms: Amiga MS-DOS NES
Genres: Baseball Sports
Developers: Krome Studios Melbourne
Publishers: Data East
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person Bird view / Isometric
Country: United States Australia
Languages: English

About

Bo Jackson Baseball is a baseball video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, TurboGrafx-16, and MS-DOS. It features athlete Bo Jackson, then a star in professional baseball and a former professional football player. In Europe, it was released by Mindscape as TV Sports: Baseball, part of the TV Sports series including TV Sports: Basketball and other games based on hockey and American football.

›Story

Bo Jackson Baseball/TV Sports Baseball features a number of different modes, including exhibition, playoff, and CPU quick mode. The game uses city names, but the team names are fictional due to licencing issues. The players are also fictional, although some of the names are parodies of real-life players.

Keywords

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Media

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Gameplay

The player can select from five to nine innings. Players can choose to throw five different kinds of pitches either slowly, normal, or fast.

One or two players can select exhibition mode or playoff mode. CPU vs CPU or CPU vs CPU quick mode can speed a tournament, to see the stats of that particular match and quickly end tournaments. The game uses city names but not the team names because of lack of proper licensing with Major League Baseball. The players are purely fictional and cannot be edited. Some of the player names are parodies, such as Baltimore's "Kenrip" resembling "Cal Ripken".

Reception

Computer Gaming World called the MS-DOS version best as an arcade game, and, because of its lack of real players' statistics, less successful than competitors as a simulation. Nintendo Power gave the NES version a 2.8 out of 5 in September 1991. Electronic Gaming Monthly issued a 4.25 out of 10 review in October 1991.