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	''World Series Baseball'' is a 1994 game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. This started the franchise of Sega-published ''World Series Baseball'' games (later known as the ''Major League Baseball 2K'' series) that would go on to outlive even the Sega Dreamcast.		''World Series Baseball'' is a 1994 game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. This started the franchise of Sega-published ''World Series Baseball'' games (later known as the ''Major League Baseball 2K'' series) that would go on to outlive even the Sega Dreamcast.

			Not to be confused with several other identically-titled games:

			* [[World Series Baseball (1982)\|''World Series Baseball'' ''(1982)'']] ''-'' Apple II
			* ''[[World Series Baseball (1993)]]'' - Game Gear
			* [[World Series Baseball (1995)\|''World Series Baseball'' ''(1995)'']] - Saturn
			* ''[[World Series Baseball (2002)]]'' - Xbox

	== Gameplay Video ==		== Gameplay Video ==

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	\| teamnames = Real MLB ~~and MiLB~~ teams		\| teamnames = Real MLB teams
	\| playernames = Real MLB players		\| playernames = Real MLB players
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	== Magazine Clippings ==		== Magazine Clippings ==

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			File:World-Series-Baseball-GamePro-58.png\|A magazine ad for World Series Baseball in GamePro issue 58 (May 1994)
			File:World-Series-Baseball-GamePro-58-2.png\|A rave review for World Series Baseball in GamePro issue 58 (May 1994)
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	~~'''Title:''' ''~~World Series Baseball''		{{GameInfobox
			\| title = World Series Baseball
	~~'''System:''' Sega Genesis~~		\| image =
			\| releasedate = North America: April 1994
	~~'''Release Date~~:~~'''~~ April 1994		\| platforms = Sega Genesis
			\| developer = BlueSky Software
	~~'''Developer:'''~~ BlueSky Software		\| publisher = Sega of America
			\| price =
	~~'''Publisher:'''~~ Sega of America		\| teamnames = Real MLB and MiLB teams
			\| playernames = Real MLB players
	~~'''Released in:''' U.S.~~ and ~~Brazil~~		}}

	''World Series Baseball'' is a 1994 game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. This started the franchise of Sega-published ''World Series Baseball'' games (later known as the ''Major League Baseball 2K'' series) that would go on to outlive even the Sega Dreamcast.		''World Series Baseball'' is a 1994 game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. This started the franchise of Sega-published ''World Series Baseball'' games (later known as the ''Major League Baseball 2K'' series) that would go on to outlive even the Sega Dreamcast.

	== Gameplay Video ==		== Gameplay Video ==
			<youtube>MBjLqiO5k84</youtube>

	== Description ==		== Description ==
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	* The pitch velocities given in-game are incredibly slow on the default Rookie pitch speed setting. Throw a fastball with Randy Johnson and choose the “fast” speed, and it’ll come in at 77 MPH on Rookie. On Veteran, the Fastball velocity is 85 MPH. On All-Star, the fastball comes in at 98 MPH. I would prefer to either not tie the in-game radar gun to difficulty settings. Or give realistic radar gun readings on the default difficulty, then adjust up or down from there as needed for the other difficulties.		* The pitch velocities given in-game are incredibly slow on the default Rookie pitch speed setting. Throw a fastball with Randy Johnson and choose the “fast” speed, and it’ll come in at 77 MPH on Rookie. On Veteran, the Fastball velocity is 85 MPH. On All-Star, the fastball comes in at 98 MPH. I would prefer to either not tie the in-game radar gun to difficulty settings. Or give realistic radar gun readings on the default difficulty, then adjust up or down from there as needed for the other difficulties.
	* Great work was done to make each home park feel unique, from the walls to different grass colors/patterns, as well as unique scoreboard graphics between innings for each home team.		* Great work was done to make each home park feel unique, from the walls to different grass colors/patterns, as well as unique scoreboard graphics between innings for each home team.

			==Commercial==
			<youtube>ufD22gZKpK4M</youtube>

	== Magazine Clippings ==		== Magazine Clippings ==

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'''Title:''' ''World Series Baseball''

'''System:''' Sega Genesis

'''Release Date:''' April 1994

'''Developer:''' BlueSky Software

'''Publisher:''' Sega of America

'''Released in:''' U.S. and Brazil

''World Series Baseball'' is a 1994 game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear. This started the franchise of Sega-published ''World Series Baseball'' games (later known as the ''Major League Baseball 2K'' series) that would go on to outlive even the Sega Dreamcast.

== Gameplay Video ==

== Description ==
The game has two key features that would have stood out from the competition in 1994:

* Full licensing for MLB and MLBPA, allowing the game to use real team logos and nicknames, representations of all the real stadiums, and rosters of real players with their real career statistics. Most games to this point had either an MLB license (real team names but fake player names, like ''Ken Griffey'' on the Super Nintendo) ''or'' an MLBPA license (real player names but only cities used for team names with no logos, like ''MLBPA Baseball''), ''or'' neither (a completely fictional league, like ''Baseball Stars'').
* An up-close, roughly catcher’s mitt perspective for the core gameplay, allowing for pitches to go up and down in the zone and not just side to side. Compare to gameplay video from ''MLBPA Baseball'', released the same year.

Unlike most of its contemporaries, the game also comes with a couple of difficulty options that change up the gameplay: Batting Level and Pitch Speed. Both settings default to Rookie, and have harder options called Veteran and All-Star above that.

At the default setting for Batting Level, hitting is only timing-based. On Veteran and All-Star, the player gets a circular reticle representing their bat path. They need to make sure that reticle is over the ball when they make their swing. Pitch speed controls the speed of each pitch, giving the hitter more or less reaction time. There is no difficulty option that makes pitching to the computer opponent easier or harder.

A Speak & Spell-esque commentator talks over your game on the Sega Genesis version, a feature that stretches the console’s voice sample capacity to its limit. This feature can be turned off from the Options menu if you don’t like to hear a robot tell you what Gary Disarcina’s lifetime batting average is.

== Little Details ==

* The pitch velocities given in-game are incredibly slow on the default Rookie pitch speed setting. Throw a fastball with Randy Johnson and choose the “fast” speed, and it’ll come in at 77 MPH on Rookie. On Veteran, the Fastball velocity is 85 MPH. On All-Star, the fastball comes in at 98 MPH. I would prefer to either not tie the in-game radar gun to difficulty settings. Or give realistic radar gun readings on the default difficulty, then adjust up or down from there as needed for the other difficulties.
* Great work was done to make each home park feel unique, from the walls to different grass colors/patterns, as well as unique scoreboard graphics between innings for each home team.

== Magazine Clippings ==