Baseball (1983 video game)

Baseball is a video game from Nintendo. It was released December 7, 1983, after the July 15 launch of the Famicom in Japan. In 1984, it was ported to the VS. System arcade as VS. Baseball with additional graphics and speech, becoming a number one hit in Japan and North America that year. It was localized as a Nintendo Entertainment System launch game in North America in 1985, and in Europe in 1986. IGN said the universal appeal of the American sport made Baseball a key to the NES's successful test market introduction, and an important piece of Nintendo history. The game was also competing with Sega's arcade hit Champion Baseball, released earlier in 1983.

Baseball
North American NES box art
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Composer(s)Yukio Kaneoka
Hirokazu Tanaka
SeriesMario Baseball
Platform(s)Famicom/NES
Arcade
PlayChoice-10
Famicom Disk System
Game Boy
Release
  • Famicom/NES
    • JP: December 7, 1983
    • NA: October 18, 1985
    • EU: September 1, 1986
    Vs. Baseball (arcade)
    • NA: April 1984
    • JP: May 1984
    • EU: 1986
  • List of re-releases
    • Famicom Disk System:
      • JP: February 21, 1986
    • Game Boy:
      • JP: April 21, 1989
      • NA: July 31, 1989
      • EU: 1990
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, two-player
Arcade systemNintendo VS. System
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