MLBPA Baseball

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MLBPA Baseball

Developer(s)	Visual Concepts
Publisher(s)	EA Sports (North American release) Coconuts Japan (Japanese release)
Platform(s)	Super Famicom, Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Game Gear
Release date	^JP August 11, 1995 as Fighting Baseball ^NA March 1994 ^[1]
Genre(s)	Sports (professional baseball)
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	n/a (released pre ESRB)
Media	Cartridge
Input methods	Game pad or Sega Game Gear portable system

MLBPA Baseball, or Fighting Baseball (ファイティングベースボール, Fighting Baseball^?)^[2] as it is known in Japan, was a sports game for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Game Gear. It was one of the first console games to feature Major League Baseball player names and statistics. Its American version was published by EA Sports.

It included the 1993 season's major league players and stats thanks to its MLBPA license, but could not use team names for lack of an MLB license.

The game allowed players to play a single game (with the default teams being Philadelphia at Toronto, the 1993 league champs), a full season based on the 1994 schedule (with wins and losses recorded by password in the SNES version, battery back-up for Genesis), playoffs, and a World Series.

Couched in what the packaging billed as "huge arcade style graphics," games could be played on either natural or artificial grass (depending on the home team) during day or night.

The game also featured scoreboard animations for double and triple plays, home runs, pitching changs and pinch hitters, and strike outs.

There were also several cheat codes to alter the game play. These included "RBBR," which made the ball bounce extraordinarily high, and "BRRR," which kept the ball from bouncing at all.

Under ZSNES, the game tends to freeze at random spots in the game (a similar effect occurs in the NHL series and the Madden series). The audience sound is muffled by limitations of the 16-bit sound engine of the Super Famicom.