Baseball Stars 2

Baseball Stars 2

Box cover of Baseball Stars 2 for the Neo-Geo
Developer(s) SNK
Publisher(s) SNK (Arcade)
Romstar (NES)
Producer(s) Eikichi Kawasaki
Designer(s) Miki, Y. Kawase
Composer(s) Masaharu Iwata (NES)
Platform(s) Arcade, Neo Geo, NES, Neo Geo CD, Virtual Console, Steam
Release date(s) Arcade / Neo Geo
April 28, 1992
NES
1992
Neo Geo CD
1994
Steam
April 27, 2016
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, 2-player
Cabinet Upright
Arcade system Neo Geo
Display Raster, 320x224 pixels,
4096 out of 65,536 colors

Baseball Stars 2 (ベースボールスター2 Bēsubōru Sutā 2) is a 2-player baseball sports arcade game released by SNK in 1992 for the Neo-Geo console. A less detailed console version was released for the NES by Romstar the same year.

The Neo-Geo version was released for Virtual Console on December 10, 2007 and the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii as part of SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1.

Neo Geo version

You can select from one of 18 teams across two leagues: Exciting League (beginner) & Fighting League (expert).

It featured 18 teams across 2 leagues (exciting league & fighting league) and put more emphasis on the graphics and the gameplay; for example, being able to change pitchers or batters and powering up batters which increased the size of the bat.

NES version

Baseball Stars 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System was distributed by Romstar in 1992.

Changes made from the original Baseball Stars, released by SNK in 1989:

Players can still create leagues of up to 125 games (6 teams playing each other 25 times) and view statistics such as League Standings and Top 10 in Average, Home Runs, Runs Batted In, Earned Run Average, Wins and Saves. (A peculiar glitch occurs when viewing league leaders. The last pitcher listed on any user-created team in "View Team" does not appear in any of the Top 10 leaderboards.)

Reception

Reception (Neo Geo)
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameFan196 / 200[1]
Player One92%[2]

The Neo Geo version was critically acclaimed. The first issue of GameFan reviewed the Neo Geo version, with its two reviewers scoring it 99% and 97%; the former said it "is far and away the best sports game I have ever played" and the latter said the "graphics are incredibly well detailed" and "the gameplay is unparalleled." They concluded that it "has the best graphics, sound, and game play this side of ESPN."[1]

The NES version was less popular than the original Baseball Stars was on the NES. Reasons for this included the inability to change the name of a gamer-created team or names of the players on a gamer-created team, and unimproved graphics over the original.

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