Nintendo Entertainment System
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traditional baseball simulation video game. No attempt was made to release the game in Australia, North America, Europe, or anywhere else in the world.
Gameplay
This game is drastically different from the Japanese version of ''Bases Loaded II: The Second Season''.
While the controls are nearly identical to ''Bases Loaded II'', the
camera
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angles are different for fielding. Graphics also look more realistic and more advanced due to the enhanced engine used to make this game. There are three statistics for the biorhythms: P- Physical, S- Sensitivity, and I-
Intellect
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ual. They affect the player in ways that can only be mentioned while playing him on the screen. Positive numbers indicate that the player is better at one of the statistics. Negative numbers mean the player is doing poorly at one of the statistics. Zero is considered to be critical and indicates the statistic is a breaking point. Regular abilities are boosted by positive numbers (in addition to playing above his usual skill level) while negative numbers mean that a player will not play up to his potential.
Each team has a letter of the
Latin alphabet
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associated with their name. It is assumed that each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a certain
Nippon Professional Baseball
is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning simply ''Professional Baseball''; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
The roots of the league ...
league team. There are two leagues: the Western League (whose coast is the
Sea of Japan
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) and the
Pacific League
The , or , or the , due to sponsorship reasons, is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the a ...
(which has their teams based around the
Pacific Ocean
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coast of the east). Each league co-responds to one of Japan's two major coastlines.