Virtual League Baseball

Virtual League Baseball
Developer(s)Kemco
Publisher(s)Kemco
Platform(s)Virtual Boy
Release
  • JP: August 11, 1995
  • NA: September 11, 1995
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player

Virtual League Baseball[a] is a 1995 baseball video game developed and published by Kemco for the Virtual Boy. A sequel, Virtual League Baseball 2, was planned, but later canceled.

Gameplay

Gameplay screenshot

There are three modes of play in Virtual League Baseball: Player 1 vs. computer, all-star game, and pennant race. In player 1 vs. computer, one single match is played between the player and the computer. In the all-star game, the player plays against the computer using a team of all-stars from America, Asia, or Europe. In the pennant race, the player plays a series of games against the computer, using passwords to resume play after turning off the console, instead of saving.

It is a single-player game. Players can receive and enter passwords to skip levels of the game. The game's teams are international.[1]

Development

Virtual League Baseball was developed by Kemco and released in October 1995 for the Virtual Boy.[1]

A playable version of the game was displayed at Electronic Entertainment Expo 1995. At the time, the coding was so broken that it was impossible for the player to hit the ball.[2] Promotion for the game was further hurt by its infamous "chili dog farts" print advertisement which was centered on a photo of two obese men exposing their butt cracks.[3]

Like all other Virtual Boy games, Virtual League Baseball uses a red-and-black color scheme and uses stereoscopy, an optical trick that is used to simulate a 3D effect.[4]

A sequel, Virtual League Baseball 2, was in development, but was never released, despite receiving an ESRB rating.[5][6]

Reception

Nintendo Power praised the game's graphics and "realistic baseball experience", but wrote that it was hard to defend near the fence. One of the magazine's six reviewers recommended the game.[1] GamePro panned it in a brief review, stating, "VLB's impressive 3D graphics seem promising at first. But after a while the shallow gameplay and awful sounds sent it foul. The archaic controls only add to the agony."[7] Scott Alan Marriott of AllGame found the game reminiscent of Major League Baseball for the Nintendo Entertainment System, noting "plinky sound effects, only one stadium, all fielders moving in unison with the control pad (including the infield and outfield!), a batting and pitching interface that relies on one button, and base runners who move at the speed of light. Are these features you want in a 1995 release? Certainly not, especially on a system that's supposed to deliver a 'virtual' experience."[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Known in Japan as Virtual Pro Yakyuu '95 (Japanese: バーチャルプロ野球'95, Hepburn: Bācharu Puro Yakyū '95)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Now Playing". Nintendo Power. No. 78. November 1995. pp. 106–107.
  2. ^ Plante, Chris (2010-08-13). "10 Lessons the Nintendo 3-DS Can Learn From the Virtual Boy". UGO.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2013. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  3. ^ "When Ads Go Bad, Readers Get Mad". GamePro. No. 91. IDG. April 1996. p. 12.
  4. ^ "Backwards Compatible: The Virtual Boy". Good Game. 2009-06-01. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  5. ^ "Virtual League Baseball 2". Entertainment Software Rating Board. Entertainment Software Association. 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  6. ^ "ケムコ - バーチャルプロ野球'96 (VB)". Famitsu (in Japanese). No. 363. ASCII. December 1, 1995. p. 106.
  7. ^ "ProReview: Virtual League Baseball". GamePro. No. 90. IDG. March 1996. p. 69.
  8. ^ Marriott, Scott Alan. "Virtual League Baseball". AllGame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2019.

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