World Series Baseball (Mega Drive)

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World Series Baseball
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: BlueSky Software, Western Technologies Inc.
Licensor: Major League Baseball Properties, Major League Baseball Players Association
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code US 1994-04 $59.9959.99 1222 BR 199x 046120

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World Series Baseball is a 1994 baseball game by Sega and BlueSky Software released for the Sega Mega Drive in the US. It was followed by World Series Baseball '95.

A World Series Baseball game, most likely a port of this version, was once planned for release on the Sega Mega-CD. This version would have had a "3D field view" and was originally set for release in October 1993.

Gameplay

In addition to having a regular exhibition mode as in other baseball games, this game has several other modes:

• Home Run Derby: up to eight players choose a batter from the team of their choice and has 10 attempts to hit as many home runs as possible (a missed attempt is either three strikes or a hit that isn't a home run)
• Batting Practice (self-explanatory)

Furthermore, other than using the bog-standard control methods of earlier baseball games, World Series Baseball introduces three different levels of control for the batter and pitcher: Rookie (automatic targeting) and Veteran and All-Star (where instead of physically moving around you move a target around to show where to bat/pitch).

Production credits

A Bluesky Production in Segavision

• Designers: Chuck Osieja, Dana Christianson
• Producers: Chris Smith, Jesse Taylor, Daniel Meade, Ken Balthaser Jr.
• Executive Producer: Wayne Townsend
• Project Manager: Mark Dobratz
• Programmers: David Dentt, Larry Clague, Steven Hostetler, Kevin Baca, Brian Belfield, Bonita Kane (Bo Kane), Richard Karpp
• Artists: Chuck Osieja, Scott Seidel, John Seidel, Matt McDonald, Drew Krevi, Amber Long, Mark Dobratz, Elizabeth Anderson-Hendricks (Liz Anderson), Robert Cuenca, Kevin McMahon

Speech System Development: Western Technologies

• Sportstalk: Alan Maynard (Allen Maynard), Joe Shands, Fletcher Beasley
• Speech Programmer: Alan Maynard
• Sound Effects, Speech Compression Technology, Electronic Speech Systems: Fletcher Beasley

Credits (cont.)

• Batting Grids and Pitching Charts: Baseball Analysis and Reporting System [BARS]
• Career Player Statistics: The Baseball Workshop
• Music: Sam Powell
• Lead Tester: Vincent Nason
• Testers: Todd Morgan, Stephen Bourdet, Jerry DeYoung, John Amirkhan, Michael Baldwin, Greg Becksted, Dusty Bedford, Michael Bench, Daniel Caraballo, Glen A. Cureton, Chris Cutliff, Daniel P. Dunn, Mark Fabela, Eric Fong, Richard Gangwish, Lawrence Gibson, Roman Greco, Rick Greer, Randall Hauser, Tracy Johnson, Darin Johnston, Dan Jung, Jeff Junio, Kevin Labounty, Jeffrey L. Loney, Michael Madden, Julio Martinez, Lancelot Nelson, Mike Palser, Christopher Pepper, Kevin Seiter, Timothy Spengler, Siegfried Stangenberg, Mark Subotnick, Terry Thomas, Conan Tigard, Matt Underwood, Gregg Vogt, Paul Walker, Greg Watkins (Gregg Watkins), Christine Watson, Richard Wong (Rich Wong)
• Marketing: Doug Rebert, Kelly Ryan
• Manual: Mike Yoffie
• Special Thanks to: Ronald Thompson, George Kiss, Jennifer Cleary (Jennifer Cleary-Haney), Trevor Bostelaar, Jason Weesner, Michael McMahon, Chris Gill, Jason Gill, W. T. Safooa, Joe Miller, Jeff Moses, Gary Gillette, Lori Niwa, Stephen Patterson, George Degolian, Norman Wood

Source:

Instruction manual

Magazine articles

Main article: World Series Baseball (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

File:WSB MD US TVAdvert 1.mp4

US TV advert

File:WSB MD US TVAdvert 1.mp4

File:Sega World Series QC TVAdvert.mp4

CA

File:Sega World Series QC TVAdvert.mp4

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #57: "April 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in SuperGamePower (BR) #7: "Outubro 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 50 Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US) NTSC-U 100 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 72 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 90 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 95 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 78 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U 80 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 78 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 100

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World Series Baseball (Mega Drive)

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, BR
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1994-05-27					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1994-03-04					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1994-02-18					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1994-01-16					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1994-01-06					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1994-01-03					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1993-12-29					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1993-12-26					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1993-12-22					Page
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1993-10-01					Page