Bo Jackson Baseball is a baseball video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, TurboGrafx-16, and MS-DOS. It features athlete Bo Jackson, then a star in professional baseball and a former professional football player. In Europe, it was released by Mindscape as TV Sports: Baseball, part of the TV Sports series including TV Sports: Basketball and other games based on hockey and American football.
| Bo Jackson Baseball | |
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 NES box art | |
| Developer(s) | NES Beam Software MS-DOS, Amiga Acme Interactive Cinemaware |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Designer(s) | Scott Orr Denny Thorley |
| Composer(s) | Marshall Parker |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, MS-DOS, Nintendo Entertainment System, TurboGrafx-16 |
| Release | NES
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Gameplay
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The player can select from five to nine innings.[1] Players can choose to throw five different kinds of pitches either slowly, normal, or fast.[2]
One or two players can select exhibition mode or playoff mode. CPU vs CPU or CPU vs CPU quick mode can speed a tournament, to see the stats of that particular match and quickly end tournaments. The game uses city names but not the team names because of lack of proper licensing with Major League Baseball.[1] The players are purely fictional and cannot be edited. Some of the player names are parodies, such as Baltimore's "Kenrip" resembling "Cal Ripken".
A cheat code allows an all-Bo Jackson baseball team.[3] The Amiga and TurboGrafx-16 versions include a league mode[4] and enhanced 16-bit graphics.[5]
Reception
edit| Publication | Score |
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| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 4.25/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 2.8/5 |
Computer Gaming World called the MS-DOS version best as an arcade game, and, because of its lack of real players' statistics, less successful than competitors as a simulation.[6] Nintendo Power gave the NES version a 2.8 out of 5 in September 1991. Electronic Gaming Monthly issued a 4.25 out of 10 review in October 1991.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Additional release information". MobyGames. Retrieved 2011-03-14.
- ^ "Pitching information". allgame. Archived from the original on 2014-11-15. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ^ "All-Bo Team Information". Cheat Codes Guides. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ "Commodore Amiga instruction manual for Bo Jackson Baseball". Lemon Amiga. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ^ "Commodore Amiga information for Bo Jackson Baseball". Abime. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ^ Rogers, Win (May 1992). "Bo Knows Arcade Baseball". Computer Gaming World. No. 94. pp. 59–60. Retrieved 24 November 2013.