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is a cartoon-like video game that is based on Japanese baseball
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All of the professional Japanese baseball teams from the Central League and the Pacific League are included. It is possible to play an exhibition mode in addition to a pennant race mode; the game even allows players to use special Barcode Battler
cards that were only available in Japan. Children created these special cards by cutting out barcode
s from their parents' groceries and scanning them with a special analyzer. Options allowed players to trade players between teams, alter the rules of the game, among other things.
Pennant race mode allows players to assign teams to different leagues; altering which teams belong to either the Central or the Pacific league for the duration of that season. Each ball-player's confidence level is pictured in weather
: sun
ny means the player is in perfect condition while rain
y means that the player is likely to perform very poorly.
The original manufacturer's suggested retail price of the game was 9,800 yen (the equivalent to $105.94 in American dollars).
Baseball in Japan
Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Japan. It was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, who taught at the Kaisei School in Tokyo. The first baseball team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878. Baseball has been a popular sport ever since...
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Summary
Barcode Battler
The is a handheld gaming console released by Epoch in March 1991.The console at retail was supplied with a number of cards, each of which had a barcode. Upon starting the game, the player must swipe a barcode representing a player. The game uses barcodes to create a character for the player to...
cards that were only available in Japan. Children created these special cards by cutting out barcode
Barcode
A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1 dimensional . Later they evolved into rectangles,...
s from their parents' groceries and scanning them with a special analyzer. Options allowed players to trade players between teams, alter the rules of the game, among other things.
Pennant race mode allows players to assign teams to different leagues; altering which teams belong to either the Central or the Pacific league for the duration of that season. Each ball-player's confidence level is pictured in weather
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate...
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Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
ny means the player is in perfect condition while rain
Rain
Rain is liquid precipitation, as opposed to non-liquid kinds of precipitation such as snow, hail and sleet. Rain requires the presence of a thick layer of the atmosphere to have temperatures above the melting point of water near and above the Earth's surface...
y means that the player is likely to perform very poorly.
The original manufacturer's suggested retail price of the game was 9,800 yen (the equivalent to $105.94 in American dollars).
See also
- List of Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Baseball games
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