Friday Starter is a weekly column of news and tidbits from the world of baseball video games—past and present, domestic and foreign.
Song of the Week – Special Edition
Usually I end each week’s post with a link to a song from baseball and/or video games, but the one I stumbled across this week interested me enough to cover in depth.
From T-mit, a Japanese YouTuber who uploads arrangements of baseball ouendan cheer songs, comes this video remaking cheer songs in a Game Boy-like retro game music style.
Here are links to the original cheer songs alongside timestamps from T-mit’s video, to help you compare:
- 0:00 – Fighters kougeki kaishi theme
- 0:23 – Nakamura (Swallows)
- 0:45 – Wakatsuki (Buffaloes)
- 1:04 – Yano (Giants)
- 1:29 – Fukuura (Marines)
- 2:07 – Brazell (Marines)
- 2:17 – GG Sato (Marines)
There are of course also lots of baseball cheer songs that originally come from game music. The first one that comes to mind for me is the Theme from SkyKid (original vs. ouendan).
Pablo Sanchez bobblehead from the Brooklyn Cyclones
Hey cool
— Mike Petriello (@mikepetriello.bsky.social) August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Mike Petriello from MLB.com shared this Pablo Sanchez bobblehead given out at a Brooklyn Cyclones game.
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A couple more recent videos to check out:
- Jeremy Parish talked Tommy Lasorda Baseball as part of his Segaiden series
- Square Pegs made a tier list of every NES baseball game, and I was shocked how much I agreed with his takes.
- He has also previously done tier lists of SNES and Genesis baseball games