Super Famista

Super Famista

JP Title	スーパーファミスタ
Release Date	Japan: March 27 1992
Platforms	Super Famicom
Developer	Namcot
Publisher	Namcot
Team Names	Real NPB teams
Player Names	Real NPB players
Preceded by	Famista '92 (FC)
Followed by	Super Famista 2 (SFC) Famista '93 (FC)

Super Famista is an action baseball game by Namcot (the home division of Namco), and the first in the Famista series released for Super Famicom. In October 1992, an adaptation of this game was released in North America as Super Batter Up.

Gameplay Modes

• Official Game (Koutaisen) - Single-player, two-player, or Watch mode. Can be configured to be 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 innings. A password will appear at the end of each game to allow continual play with that team, with the goal being to beat each other team in order.
• Intrasquad Game (Kouhakusen) - Choose a single team, which drafts its players into two nine-man rosters and plays against itself. Get ready for lots of position player pitching.
• All-Star - A single game between Central League and Pacific League All-Star Teams, with semi-randomized "fan voting" determining the rosters.
• Draft - Add two rookies pulled from the special teams to each NPB roster, then play with the edited rosters. You can see the position and overall skill rating (S-D) of players. Any teams that choose the same player have a random draw to determine who gets the player, so there is some potential strategy in avoiding the top names.

Roster

This is the first game in the Famista series to use real NPB team names. This is also the first game in the series since the original Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium to use unaltered real player names.

Rosters for the twelve NPB teams reflect a mixture of 1991 and 1992 rosters. Some 1991-1992 off-season transactions are reflected in-game while others are not.

Two special teams are available in the team select screen normally:

• Namco Stars - Characters from Namco games
• Americans - Players named after American cities, with stat lines taken from Major League Baseball players of the time

Twelve more special teams are accessed by hovering over an NPB team then pressing L or R. These teams use stat lines representing legendary players from that NPB team, but the player names are changed to match the team's theme. These special teams can only play against each other, not against the normal rosters.

NPB Team	Special Team	Theme of Player Pseudonyms
Buffaloes	Jackaloos	Mammals
Blue Wave	Submarines	Shinto and Buddhist deities
Carp	Reds	Things that are red
Dragons	Unicorns	Mythical creatures
Fighters	Kings	Card and board game terms
Giants	Victories	Famous samurai
Hawks	Eagles	Birds
Lions	Irons	Imperial Japanese Navy ships
Marines	Astros	Space terms
Swallows	Penguins	Cold things
Tigers	Dynamites	Dinosaurs
Whales	Oceans	Fish and other aquatic animals

Secrets

• View player attributes - On the title screen, press the R shoulder button six times, L six times, then Start. Now you can use the D-pad to scroll through each team's attributes, including secret teams.

Physical Media

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  Super Famista front box scan

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  Super Famista back box scan