HardBall IV

Sega console exclusive

Play is controlled with a joystick or arrow keys and an action button. One of the four cardinal directions is used to choose the pitch, and again to aim it towards low, high, inside (towards batter), or outside (away from batter). The same directions are used to aim the swing when batting. When fielding after a hit, the defensive player closest to the ball will flash to show it is the one currently under control. The four directions are then used to throw to one of the four bases.

Released: 1994
Platforms: Amiga Amstrad CPC Apple II Apple IIGS Atari 8-bit Atari ST/STE Commodore C64/128/MAX MS-DOS MSX Mega Drive Mini Sega Genesis ZX Spectrum macOS
Genres: Baseball Sports
Developers: —
Publishers: Accolade
Perspective: Third person
Country: United States

About

HardBall IV is a video game developed by MindSpan and published by Accolade for the Sega Genesis as HardBall '94 and later for DOS.

Keywords

baseball

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "you've got a top-notch simulation of America's favorite sport."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Commodore C64/128/MAX	31 December 1985	North America
Apple II	31 December 1985	North America
Atari 8-bit	31 December 1985	North America
Atari ST/STE	31 December 1985	North America
macOS	31 December 1986	North America
ZX Spectrum	31 December 1986	Europe
Amstrad CPC	31 December 1986	Europe
Amiga	31 December 1987	North America
MSX	31 December 1987	Japan
Apple IIGS	31 December 1987	North America
MS-DOS	31 December 1987	North America
Sega Genesis	31 December 1991	North America