Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū series

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Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū (実況パワフルプロ野球) Live Powerful Pro Baseball, simply called Power Pro to non-Japanese speakers, is a Japan-only baseball series created by Konami. It is known for its big-headed characters, and addictive arcade-style gameplay. It is long running in Japan, starting out in 1994 for the Super Famicom. The game has also appeared on Sega Saturn(1995 to 1997), PlayStation(1995 to 2001), Nintendo 64(1997 to 2001), PlayStation 2(from 2002 to the present), Dreamcast, and GameCube(also from 2002 to the present). There are also pocket versions for Game Boy Color, GBA, and Nintendo DS, called Power Pro-kun Pocket first appearing in 1999, and a full sized version for the PSP. The game is on its 13th iteration on console (PS2, GC, and PSP) AND its 8th on handheld (DS and GBA). On May 12, 2006, A version of Power Pro was released featuring Major League Baseball players. This version is called Jikkyō Powerful Major League.

The PS2 versions of Power Pro (since 11) is online, and The DS version (8) uses Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service.

There is a version announced for the PlayStation 3, first at TGS 2005.

Contents 1 Games in the series 2 Super Famicom 3 PlayStation 4 Sega Saturn 5 Nintendo 64 6 PlayStation 2 7 Nintendo Gamecube 8 Nintendo DS 9 PlayStation Portable

[edit] Games in the series

Below is a rough list of games in the Power Pro series. A complete list is available at the Japanese wiki page.

[edit] Super Famicom

• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '94 (1994} The first game in the series.
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2 (1995)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 3 (1996)

[edit] PlayStation

• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 (1994)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 Kaimaku-ban (1995)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '96 Kaimaku-ban (1996)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '97 Kaimaku-ban (1997)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '98 Kaimaku-ban (1998)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '98 Kettei-ban (1998)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '99 Kaimaku-ban (1999)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '99 Kettei-ban (1999)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2000 Kaimaku-ban (2000)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2000 Kettei-ban (2000)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2001 Kaimaku-ban (2001)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2001 Kettei-ban (2001)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2002 Haru (2002)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū Premium-ban (2003)

[edit] Sega Saturn

• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū '95 (1995)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū S (1997)

[edit] Nintendo 64

• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 4 (1997)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 5 (1998)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 6 (1999)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 2000 (2000)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū Basic-han 2001 (2001)

[edit] PlayStation 2

• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 7 (2000)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 8 (2001)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 9 (2002)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 10 (2003)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 11 (2004)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 12 (2005)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 13 (2006)

[edit] Nintendo Gamecube

• DreamMix TV World Fighters (Available from the start) (2003)

[edit] Nintendo DS

• Power Pocket Koushien (2005)
• Atsumare! Power Pro Kun no DS Koushien (2006)
• Power Pro Kun Pocket 9 (2006)

[edit] PlayStation Portable

• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū Portable (2006)
• Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū Portable 2 (2007)