Great Sluggers
| Great Sluggers | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
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| Genre(s) | Baseball |
| Mode(s) | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Arcade system | Namco NB-1 |
| CPU | 1x Motorola 68EC020 @ 24.192 MHz |
| Sound | 1x C352 @ 16.384 MHz |
| Display | Horizontal orientation, Raster, 304 x 224 resolution |
Great Sluggers (グレートスラッガーズ Gurēto Suraggāzu), the full Japanese name: Great Sluggers: New World Stadium (グレートスラッガーズ: ニューワールドスタジアム Gurēto Suraggāzu: Nyū Wārudo Sutajiamu), is a baseball arcade game that was released by Namco in 1993, only in Japan; it was the first game to run upon the company's then-new NB-1 hardware, and the gameplay is largely similar to the System 2 era (1991-1993) of their own World Stadium series as both players must take control of two of twelve real-life Japanese baseball teams in the Central and Pacific Leagues, then select one of four stadiums for the match to take place in (two of which, the Dome and Kōshien, had been carried over from that World Stadium series, but the latter has been renamed to "Urban", and the other two, the Hillside and Kaihei Dome, were created specifically for this game). All four also feature advertisements for the older titles of Starblade, Pac-Man, Mappy, Pac-Land, Dig Dug, Net-tō! Geki-tō! Quiz-tō!!, Final Lap, Emeraldia, Numan Athletics and Namco's then-existent "Wonder Eggs" theme park in Tokyo (which closed down in 2000) - and like Super World Stadium '92 Gekitōban and Super World Stadium '93 Gekitōhen, there was also a "FAVOR" setting in the options menu which allowed arcade operators to show their support for their local baseball team during the title's attract sequence.[1] A sequel named Great Sluggers '94 was released the following year, but in the United States; it plays like an "Americanized" version of both the World Stadium series and its predecessor and has twenty-eight teams for both players to choose from, but it only has two stadiums for the match to take place in ("Traditional" and "Modern", and the latter is the Kaihei Dome stadium from this title). It also replaces the advertisement for Net-tō! Geki-tō! Quiz-tō!! with one for Dragon Buster, as it was not Japan-exclusive.
References
External links
- Great Sluggers at the Killer List of Videogames
- Great Sluggers at the Arcade History database
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