Friday Starter is a weekly column of news and tidbits from the world of baseball video games—past and present, domestic and foreign.
A dumb little slideshow
Apologies, I did not have time to write the normal Friday Starter column this week, between various responsibilities. Instead, please enjoy a slightly lower effort gallery of images I have pulled off the internet, relating to baseball and/or video games:
The cover a radically stylish Japanese game magazine called ED. Digital Sports was the cover story, so here we get a robo-Babe Ruth. 
The start of the Baseball section inside the same ED Magazine. 
From the same magazine, a two-page spread with screenshots from various sports games. 
The cover of Famitsu Magazine 669. For a Pawapuro 8 cover story, we see an Ichiro version of the Famitsu mascot challenging an evil Uncle Sam. 
The cover of Famitsu Magazine 145, with the mascot and a model playing Hakunetsu Pro Yakyuu Ganba League on the Super Famicom 
The cover of an issue of Comptiq Magazine, with three models wearing MLB gear. 
A two-page ad for Best Play Pro Yakyuu ’90, from Famitsu 117. 
An ad for Pro Yakyuu Netsusta 2007, with a Famista pitcher throwing to a real-life hitter. 
A GIF of a dejected, down-on-his-luck Pawapuro-kun from a game over screen. 
A goofed-up model of Pawapuro-kun. I think it might have been from DreamMix TV: World Fighters if I remember right? 
A cool graphic of Pawapuro-kun and Wander from a menu in Pawapuro 4. 
A cartoon version of Atsuya Furuta from the manual for Super Famista. 
My Road to the Show character from MLB The Show 25, looking especially stupid as he receives a call from his agent. 
The cover of Call Me Psycho for the Commodore 64, featuring a baseball player running and gunning out of an explosion.