Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Great Baseball (Sega Master System review)

Developer: Whiteboard
Publisher: Sega of America
Released: 1987

Great Baseball is a sports game that differs from the similarly named Sega Master System title Great Baseball (1985).

+ Individual stats encourage tactical play, there's a whopping 26 teams, and the game supports 1-2 players.

+ Allows you to customise your starting pitcher, as well as choosing when to bring in a relief player or pinch hitter.

+ Clear voice samples and the cool scoreboard animations resemble FIFA International Soccer (1993, Sega Genesis).

- Angled view when pitching makes it difficult to judge spatial distance and the exact location of the strike zone.

- Ball absolutely flies off the bat, which makes defense tough as your players can't move anywhere near as fast.

- Automatic base runners aren't the smartest, as they'll often head from 3rd to home base on an infield fly ball!

- CPU A.I. is inconsistent, as one minute they'll swing during your pitch wind-up, before becoming world beaters.


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