World Series Baseball (Saturn)

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World Series Baseball
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (1 track)
Genre: Sports

















Number of players: 1-2
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World Series Baseball (Saturn) for the Sega Saturn is a baseball game which is part of the World Series Baseball franchise. This Saturn version is unrelated to the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear games of the same name - it is a brand new entry, despite not having a brand new name (although during development it was known as Grand Slam Baseball), which takes advantage of the system's 3D graphics.

It is known as Hideo Nomo World Series Baseball (野茂英雄ワールドシリーズベースボール) in Japan, possibly to make this distinction, being sponsored by Hideo Nomo. This of course, can cause further confusion, as there is a Nomo Hideo no World Series Baseball for the Game Gear also. It would not be the last game to disregard previous entries in the series - a 2001 World Series Baseball exists also.

This Saturn version of World Series Baseball was followed by World Series Baseball II, again seemingly unaware of the Mega Drive and Game Gear games that preceded it.

Production credits

(US Manual)

Sega of America Team:

Producer: Chris Cutliff
Assistant Producers: Lorne Asuncion, Mark Paniagua
SEGA SPORTS: Tom Abramson, Matt Cook, Gerald DeYoung, Rosie Freeman, John Gillin, Brad Hogan, Mike Meischeid, Anne Moellering, Scott Rohde, Chris Smith
Sports Testers: Aron Drayer, Tracy Johnson, Todd Morgan, Dave Perkinson, Terry Thomas, Matt Underwood
Lead Tester: Tim Spengler
Core Testers: John Amirkhan, Mike Borg, Steve Bourdet, Ben Briones, Ernie Deakyne, Rich Krinock, Chris Lucich, Dylan Manger, Eric Molina, Jose Ochoa, Steve Perez, Aaron Reif, George Sandoval, Scott Snyder, Steve Thompson
Special Thanks: Dave Albert, Barry Blum, Alan Bruce, John Carlucci, John Leonhardt, Kristin Mallory, Jenny Martin, Mark Miller, MLB, MLBPA, MLB Photos, Spencer Nilsen, Susannah Nukes, The Phoenix Group, Bryan Reilly, Yukimi Shimura, Osamu Shibayama

Sega of Japan Team:

Producers: Yoji Ishii, Mokoto Oshitoni, Hirotsugu Kobayashi
Executive Producer: Mamoru Shigeta
Graphic Designers: Takaya Segawa, Hideake Moriya, Koki Mogi, Makiko Suzuki, Yumiko Miyabe, Yasufumi Soejima
Programmers: Manabu Ishihara, Kenichi Yamaguchi, Ichiro Kasai, Yuichi Morosawa, Yoichi Nakasato
Game Designers: Yoshiaki Kitagawa, Tomoko Hasegawa
Sound Director: Tomonori Sawada, Katsuyoshi Nitta, Miki Obata
Director: Tetsuo Sinyu
Technical Director: Honkang Lee
Art Producer: Ko Tanaka
Manual: Marc Sherrod
Special Thanks: Jyunichi Shimizu, Yukifumi Makino, Ikuo Ishizaka, Luigi Rimentani, Toshiki Maruyama, Fumitaka Shibata, James Spahn, Henry Giesen

Promotional material

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
72 №13, p58-61[1]
73 №362, p30
70 №86
60 №2, p143
87 №38, p90[2]
92 №61, p113
81 №1, p76/77[3]
70 №1995-12, p185[4]
75
Sega Saturn
 76
Based on
9 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
CD Consoles (FR)
100
[1]
Digitiser (UK)
78
[6]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
73
[7]
Fusion (US) NTSC-U
50
[8]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
97
[9]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
80
[10]
GamesMaster (UK) PAL
70
[11]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
89
[12]
Hobby Consolas (ES) PAL
79
[13]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
85
[14]
Maximum (UK)
50
[15]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
87
[16]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
71
[17]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
87
[2]
Player One (FR)
92
[18]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
69
[19]
Saturn+ (UK) PAL
84
[20]
Sega Magazin (DE) PAL
81
[21]
Sega Saturn Magazine (UK)
81
[22]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
70
[23]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
75
[5]
Video Games (DE) NTSC-U
72
[24]
VideoGames (US) NTSC-U
90
[25]
Sega Saturn
 79
Based on
23 reviews

World Series Baseball (Saturn)

Saturn, US
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Cover
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Disc
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Manual
Saturn, EU
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Cover
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Disc
Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Disc



Games in the World Series Baseball Series
Sega Mega Drive
 World Series Baseball (1994) | World Series Baseball '95 (1995) | World Series Baseball '96 (1996) | World Series Baseball 98 (1997)
Sega Game Gear
 World Series Baseball (1993) | World Series Baseball '95 (1994) | Nomo's World Series Baseball (1995)
Sega 32X
 World Series Baseball Starring Deion Sanders (1995)
Sega Saturn
 World Series Baseball (1995) | World Series Baseball II (1996) | World Series Baseball 98 (1997)
Windows PC
 World Series Baseball '96 (1996)
Arcade
 World Series 99 (1999) | World Series Baseball (2001)
Sega Dreamcast
 World Series Baseball 2K1 (2000) | World Series Baseball 2K2 (2001)
Xbox
 World Series Baseball (2002) | World Series Baseball 2K3 (2003)
World Series Baseball related media
Book
 Prima's Official Strategy Guide: World Series Baseball 2K1 (2000)
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File:CDConsoles FR 13.pdf, page 58 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CDConsoles FR 13.pdf_p58" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File:MeanMachinesSega38UK.pdf, page 91 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega38UK.pdf_p91" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ File:SSM_UK_01.pdf, page 76
  4. ↑ File:SSM_JP_19951201_1995-12.pdf, page 187
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Saturn no Game wa Sekai Ichi~i~i~i!: Satamaga Dokusha Race Zen Kiroku, SoftBank Publishing, page 14 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SnGwSISDRZK Book JP.pdf_p14" defined multiple times with different content
  6. ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1995-12-12)
  7. ↑ Famitsu, "1995-11-24" (JP; 1995-11-10), page 30
  8. ↑ Fusion, "Volume 1, Number 6: January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 95
  9. ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 12 December 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 91
  10. ↑ GamePro, "January 1996" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 118
  11. ↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 5, episode 7" (1995-11-07, 24:00) (+11:07)
  12. ↑ Game Informer, "November 1995" (US; 1995-1x-xx), page 39
  13. ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Diciembre 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 116
  14. ↑ MAN!AC, "01/96" (DE; 1995-12-06), page 82
  15. ↑ Maximum, "November 1995" (UK; 1995-11-xx), page 143
  16. ↑ Mega Force, "Décembre 1995" (FR; 1995-1x-xx), page 88
  17. ↑ Mega Fun, "01/96" (DE; 1995-12-20), page 69
  18. ↑ Player One, "Février 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 113
  19. ↑ Saturn Fan, "1996 No. 3" (JP; 1996-01-19), page 78
  20. ↑ Saturn+, "Christmas 1995" (UK; 1995-12-14), page 64
  21. ↑ Sega Magazin, "Januar 1996" (DE; 1995-12-13), page 76
  22. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "November 1995" (UK; 1995-10-26), page 76
  23. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "December 1995" (JP; 1995-11-08), page 187
  24. ↑ Video Games, "12/95" (DE; 1995-11-21), page 71
  25. ↑ VideoGames, "December 1995" (US; 1995-11-21), page 87
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