A slightly altered version of it was used at the title screen of the NES title, Volleyball, also by Nintendo.
The title screen tune of this NES title was also used as the title screen tune of some of Nintendo's NES Sports titles such as Pro Wrestling. For the American version, the letters of the teams were renamed to more closely resemble several of the Major League Baseball teams: The game's team names are intended to represent members of the Japanese Central League in the Famicom version and members of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the American version.Īlthough there is no difference between them other than uniform color, the teams are meant to represent the six members of the Japanese Central League. Each player can select from one of six teams. As in real baseball, the object of the game is to score the most runs. It was later one of the NES's 18 launch titles when it was released in 1985 in the United States. Be patient :-)īaseball is a video game made by Nintendo in 1983 for the Nintendo Family Computer, making it one of the first games released for the Famicom. Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. The following emulators are available for this game: NeptunJS (JavaScript), Nesbox (Flash), RetroGames (JS) and vNES (Java).