1992 · Port · Baseball · Sports

Super Batter Up

Nintendo exclusivePort

Super Batter Up is a baseball game with both a 1 and 2 player mode plus a league mode. The game carries the MLBPA license, but not an MLB license, so it only features all the players from the 1991 season playing for a team in a city that they really play for. Players get to play in either a dome, modern, or traditional stadium each with their own unique characteristics.

Released: 27 March 1992
Platforms: SNES
Genres: Baseball Sports
Developers: —
Publishers: Namco
Series: Family Stadium
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Country: Japan
Languages: English

About

Super Batter Up, known in Japan as Super Famista, is a 1992 baseball video game developed and published by Namco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game can played with both a one- and two-player mode plus a league mode.

The North American release has an official license from the Major League Baseball Players Association and features the names of actual professional baseball players, but it does not have a license from Major League Baseball and no actual team names are used; the teams are only identified by their respective locales. While the all-star mode in the Japanese version of the game closely mimics the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, the North American version of the game emulates the MLB All-Star Game. An intrasquad mode (found only in the Japanese version) allows players on the same team to face off against each other. The only limitations are that there are only five pitchers on each team, players cannot be changed, and uniforms are limited to red and white colors.

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Gameplay

The game features teams representing the 26 Major League Baseball teams and their players from the 1991 Major League Baseball season. Ballplayers who competed during that baseball season like Cal Ripken, Dave Winfield, and Kirby Puckett are included. The Japanese version, however, features teams and actual player names from the Nippon Professional Baseball league. Players get to play in either a dome resembling the Tokyo Dome in Japan or Rogers Centre (then called SkyDome) in Toronto, a contemporary baseball stadium (with homages to Japan's Koshien Stadium or Chicago's Wrigley Field), or in traditional-style stadium style (reminiscent of Chiba Marine Stadium in Japan or Busch Memorial Stadium (now Busch Stadium) in St.

Louis). Each player in the Japanese version of the game has a popularity meter that gauges how liked they are by the audience; better players are more likely to be cheered on for an excellent play.