Yakyuu-Kyou

Yakyuu-Kyou

JP Title	野球狂
Release Date	Japan: July 1984
Platforms	SMC-77, PC-60, PC-88, MSX, MZ-1500, FM-7
Developer	Hudson
Publisher	Hudson
Original Price	6800 yen
Team Names	NPB All-Star teams
Player Names	Real player names

Yakyuu-Kyou ("Baseball Fanatic") is a Hudson-developed action baseball games released for a variety of Japanese computers.

Description

Two teams are included by default: Pacific League All-Stars and Central League All-Stars. There is an edit mode to allow changing the player and team names.

The gameplay modes are limited to single games only, with single-player, two-player, or CPU vs. CPU options.

How to play today

The Sony SMC-77 version of the game has been archived by Gaming Alexandria.

1. Download the "Takeda's Emulator" version of Win-SMC here.
2. Unzip the emulator and launch smc777.exe.
3. Drag and drop the Yakyuu-Kyou .d88 ROM file onto the emulator window, or use FD1 > Insert to select the .d88 file.

The game will boot. Use arrow keys and spacebar to play.

Physical Media

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  Yakyuu-Kyou SMC-77 front box art, scanned by Gaming Alexandria.

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  Yakyuu-Kyou SMC-77 back box art, scanned by Gaming Alexandria.

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  Yakyuu-Kyou SMC-77 side box art, scanned by Gaming Alexandria.

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  Yakyuu-Kyou SMC-77 floppy disk front, scanned by Gaming Alexandria.

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  Yakyuu-Kyou insert with some corrections on material in the instruction manual, scanned by Gaming Alexandria.

External Links

• Gaming Alexandria post about the preservation of the SMC-77 version of the game.
• nf_ban blog post about the MSX version of the game (JP)