| Frank Thomas' Big Hurt Baseball | |
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North American cover art (Super NES) |
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| Developer(s) | Iguana Entertainment[1][2] |
| Publisher(s) | Acclaim[1][2] |
| Designer(s) | Brett Gow[2] |
| Composer(s) | Greg Turner Eric Swanson Darren Mitchell (SNES) |
| Engine | Proprietary |
| Platform(s) | Sega Genesis, Super NES, Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) | Super NES: |
| Genre(s) | Traditional baseball simulation[1][2] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | |
| Media/distribution | 24-megabit cartridge (Super NES version) CD-ROM (Microsoft Windows version) |
| System requirements
Pentium or above; Windows 95 or newer (Microsoft Windows version) |
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Frank Thomas' Big Hurt Baseball is a multiplatform baseball simulation game that is licensed by Major League Baseball. All the teams, statistics, and players are meant to simulate the 1995 Major League Baseball season.[4]
Notable for being released near the end of the timeline for the North American Super NES (it remained popular until the year 2003 in Japan,[5]) this video game provided the most realistic action for a baseball game that was released on that particular console system.
Featuring realistic pitching, realistic batting, and a realistic likeness of Frank Thomas himself for the game's era, there are also regular season and exhibition modes for extra gaming pleasure.[2] Pitching and batting can be done either in a high, medium, or low direction (in addition to slow, medium, or fast pitching) for greater realism.[2] Various scenarios offer different challenges that take place in either the 20th century (although not too far in the past as the game cannot properly simulate the dead-ball era of baseball) or the 21st century (but using the same player numbers as the games set in the present day).
Certain scenarios were not allowed to go into extra innings and ending a game in a time was the equivalent to losing the entire scenario. An example of a game scenario would involve playing as the 1994 Montreal Expos team in the World Series that was never meant to be due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike that resulted in an abbreviated 1995 season.