Action-oriented baseball sim. Hardball 5 is mainly an update to Hardball 4, with the additions coming in the form of adjustable difficulty settings, sharper graphics, more comments by Al Michaels and improved league play which comes with a full set of 1994 major leaguers plus a bonus "legends" league. Includes multiplayer support for up to 2 players.
In this game you take on the role of 1 out of 8 teams who represent various nations vying to become the Powerball champions. Powerball is a game consisting of a hybrid of sports such as American football, soccer and rugby. You play on an 100 yard field trying to score on the opposing team. Scoring consists of either running into your opponent's end zone holding the powerball for a touchdown or kicking the ball into your opponent's net to score a goal. Goals are worth 1 point, and touchdowns are worth 3 points. The game modes are 1 or 2 player exhibition play, and 1 or 2 player league play. League play allows you to use bonus points, and distribute them to your teammates to improve their statistics.
Dino Dini's Soccer is a top-down football game for the Sega Mega Drive programmed by Dino Dini, the man behind the first two Kick Off games by Anco Games. It was only released in Europe.
Dino Dini's Soccer is a retooled version of an earlier Amiga game, Goal!, sporting superior graphics and support for four players via Sega's Team Player peripheral. Though this has not been confirmed, it has been suggested that during development Dino Dini's Soccer was set to be a straight port of Goal! with no extra features (this being the situation with the SNES version, which despite its name, was not personally handled by Dino Dini like this Mega Drive release). An unconfirmed working title appears to have been Dino Dini's Goal!.
As a spiritual sequel to Kick Off 2 (or Super Kick Off, as it appeared on the Mega Drive), Dino Dini's Soccer offers similar gameplay but with the addition of smarter AI, multiple cameras and improved presentation.
New 3D Golf Simulation: Harukanaru Augusta is a 1989 golf game by T&E Soft for the NEC PC-98 and the first in their New 3D Golf Simulation series of golf games. They ported it to the Sega Mega Drive in 1993. This version was not released outside Japan.
The game takes place at the Augusta National Golf Club and plays identically to Pebble Beach Golf Links.
J.League Pro Striker is a 1993 football game for the Sega Mega Drive by Sega. It was the first in a long line of J. League games developed by Sega after acquiring the license to the franchise for their consoles (but it was not the first J.League game on a Sega system — Game Arts's J. League Champion Soccer, released a few months earlier on the MD, was).
Chou Kyuukai Miracle Nine is an isometric-projection baseball game. When batting, the D-pad moves around and A and C swing. When pitching, Left and Right move around and C pitches. You can also take control of the rest of the team when the ball has been hit: you control the player with the ball; the D-pad moves around and C throws the ball.
Pro Striker Final Stage is a 1995 football game by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive made with the J. League license.
Though arguably a "sequel" to J. League Pro Striker, J. League Pro Striker Perfect and J. League Pro Striker 2, Final Stage in fact uses an entirely different engine (most notably, the game is played horizontally rather than vertically) with many more added features.
Kyuukai Douchuuki is a 1990 arcade baseball game by Namco which they ported to the Sega Mega Drive in 1991. Neither version left Japan.
The game is a generic baseball game where you are only in control of the pitcher and batter; once the batter hits the ball, you can only watch what your team does. When batting, the D-pad moves around and C swings. When pitching, Left and Right move around and some amount of time holding the C button appears to pitch.
It is a spin-off of Shadowland (Youkai Douchuki).
Paddle Fighter (パドルファイター) is a sports game for the Sega Mega Drive, released exclusively in Japan via the Sega Game Toshokan service.
Paddle Fighter is a glorified version of air hockey, with a few special moves allowing you to protect your goal for a few seconds, and lock the puck so that it can be hit in the desired direction.
Putter Golf is a golf game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive. It was only available in Japan as a download through the Sega Game Toshokan service.
Putter Golf is essentially (but whether or not it officially is is unknown) a Mega Drive version of Putt & Putter: a very simple golf game with an isometric perspective. Rather than compete on wide open courts however, the game opts for much smaller levels which would only require a putter (much like minigolf). As well as this, there are a number of obstacles which can get in your way, from bumpers to lava.
Kick Off 3: European Challenge is a football game developed by Steve Screech for Anco Games as a sequel to Kick Off 2 (which made it to the Sega Mega Drive in the altered form of Super Kick Off). VIC Tokai published a version for the Mega Drive in 1994.
Unlike its predecessors, Kick Off 3 had no involvement from lead programmer Dino Dini, and thus plays very differently to other games in the series, having a "horizontal" pitch as opposed to a "vertical" one. Due to these radical changes, the game was met with controversy upon release. Dino Dini released his own football game around the same time for the Amiga titled Goal!, which made its way onto the Mega Drive as Dino Dini's Soccer.
From the publishers of crack shmup Eliminate Down comes this two-course wonder with Japanese and American rounds to sample. Up to four players can participate for the hole or keep a tally of the overall score in tournament mode. An accomplished title.
Davis Cup II (as named in the ROM header) is an unreleased sequel to Davis Cup Tennis, set to be released for the Sega Mega Drive.
Two prototypes of this game have been dumped - an earlier PAL version dated within the ROM as 1994-07-10, and a version for North America dated 1994-07-28. Both are early versions of the game with no music and many assets borrowed from the original Davis Cup Tennis.