You're the home team in blue, engaged in the most realistic home video baseball game around. You've got to hit the fast-breaking curve balls or smoking fastballs. But don't pop up, this game features fly balls as well a grounders. You can also steal bases and kick up a cloud of dust as you slide into the bag. Nine innings of action-packed fun, for one or two players. Play ball!
During 1981, APh started work on Baseball II and Basketball II -- one-player versions of the original games. These were not high priorities since the original versions continued to sell well. In 1982, when the Keyboard Component was killed, Marketing wanted to produce a series of Super Sports cartridges for the Entertainment Computer System (ECS) to help push that system, so work was ordered halted on the non-ECS sports games.
FUN FACT: INTV Corporation released the game as is, including the fatal bug and the debugging module. The game occasionally crashes, displaying the debugging screen. To explain this, INTV added the following noti
Dump Matsumoto and Bull Nakano take on The "Fresh Gals" (Crush Gals and Jumping Bomb Angels) in this 1986 arcade game based on All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. The original Japanese title for the game is ‘Dump Matsumoto)
Super Soccer is a soccer simulation developed for the Spectrum 48/128 by Imagine Software in 1986. It was also later released by Ocean Software as a free game with Crash Magazine.
Control is either with joystick or keyboard. gameplay is either single player against computer teams, or up to 8 players in a turn-based multiplayer mode.
Games last about 5 minutes, and a timer counts this down, but stops to wait for penalties, free kicks, half-time, etc.
The player controls one team member at a time, and this player is shown by a halo above their head. If this player moves away from the ball too far or for too long, control is switched to the next nearest player on the football field. Players with highest score at the end win the match.
Skiing is a 1-4 player sports game that was released a year after Coleco discontinued the system.
The two events are Slalom (pass between a set number of gates) and Downhill (avoid moguls on the course), and the objective is to finish in the quickest possible time.
World Cup Carnival is the first soccer (football) game utilizing the official FIFA license. The game was actually football games from Artic Computing and repackaged to coincide with the FIFA World Cup in Mexico in 1986.