| Bad News Baseball | |
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North American cover art |
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| Developer(s) | Tecmo[1] |
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| Engine | Proprietary |
| Platform(s) | NES |
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| Genre(s) | Traditional baseball simulation[1] |
| Mode(s) | CPU vs. CPU Single-player Two-player |
| Media/distribution | Cartridge |
Bad News Baseball, originally released as Gekitō!! Stadium (激闘スタジアム, "Fierce Fighting!! Stadium") in Japan, is a baseball game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
The game lacked a season mode comparable to those of most modern baseball games. Instead, in the one-player mode the player's goal was to defeat every other team featured in the game in the order of their choosing. Wins and losses were not recorded, and the player could continue playing indefinitely until all other teams were defeated. While this meant that there was no set schedule of games, pitchers did have a stamina rating that once depleted would take several games worth of rest to recover from. In this way, the game simulated the idea of a pitching rotation.
Bad News Baseball generally receives average reviews from critics. Stan Stepanic of Game Freaks 365 gave it a fairly low rating, citing an extremely difficult computer, AI glitch that makes it easy, and scoring almost completely on home runs as the game's major flaws. It is Tim Harding from 2P Start's favorite game. [2]