ESPN Baseball Tonight

For the unreleased Sega Dreamcast game, see ESPN Baseball Tonight (Dreamcast).

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ESPN Baseball Tonight

System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega-CD

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft

Developer: Park Place Productions

Sound driver: GEMS

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1994		T-93056
US	1994		T-93115
EU	1994		T-93115-50
DE	1994	DM 119.00119.00^[3]	T-93115-50
UK	1994	£44.9944.99^[1]^[2]	T-93115-50

Non-Sega versions
IBM PC Super NES

VRC

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ESPN Baseball Tonight is a baseball game sponsored by ESPN for the Sega Mega Drive and Sega Mega-CD. It is named after the long-running Baseball Tonight television show that airs on the US TV channel, ESPN.

Production credits

Mega-CD version

Sony Imagesoft:

Executive Producer: Richard Robinson
Producers: John Smedley, Allan Becker
Sega CD Programming: Russell Shanks, Bill Hicks
Associate Producer: Greg Oberle
Assistant Producers: Hunter Luisi, Dennis Quinn
Lead Artists: Katherine Roe, Dave Estus
Graphics and Animations: Dave Estus, Steve Mitchell, Andy Jaros, Bert Huntsinger, David Fenderson, Katherine Roe, John Scharmen, Ted Robertson, Scott Rogers
Sprite Teams: Steve Mitchell, Katherine Roe, David Fenderson, Chris Meland, Charlie Navarro, Joe Brisbois, Emmanuel Valdez, Dave Estus
Additional Programming: Paul Willman
Sound and Music: Josepth Hight, Rex Baca
Video Design: Greg Oberle
Video Production: Dave Oberle
Technical Design: Bill Hicks, Russell Shanks
Quality Assurance: Robert Baumsteiger, Justin Busche, Bruce Cochrane, Jose Cruz, Greg Kaine, Jody Kelsey, Andre Leighton, Seth Luisi, Tobin Russell, Patricia Shanks, Andrew Stein, Martha Williams, Fred Wigand
Special Effects Art: Janice Squire, Holliday Horton, Leonard McVicker
Sony Electronic Publishing: Olaf Olafsson, Lester Greenman
Special Thanks To: Tina Kowalewski, Tom Taylor, Karen Dole, Brian O'Hara, Tim Hays, Altair Lane, Mike Giam, Brad Schlacter, Brian Wiklem, Andy Zaffron

ESPN:

Executive Producers: Steve Bornstein, Ed Durso, Dick Glover, Tom Hagopian, Jim Noel
Producers: John Wildhack, Steve Anderson, Noubar Stone, Jed Drake
Special Thanks To: Dan Patrick, Chris Berman (I'll never be your beast of)

Magazine articles

Main article: ESPN Baseball Tonight/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0705: "Vol. 7 No. 5 May 1994" (1994-0x-xx)
also published in:

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #58: "May 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[4]

Mega Drive print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #59: "June 1994" (1994-xx-xx)
also published in:

GamePro (US) #60: "July 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[5]
EGM² (US) #1: "July 1994" (1994-07-19)^[6]

Mega-CD print advert in Sega Visions (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Mega-CD print advert in Game Players (US) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

60

^[7]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[8]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

46

^[9]

	60
Based on 3 reviews

ESPN Baseball Tonight

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Poster

Mega-CD version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Computer & Video Games (UK)

88

^[1]

Games World: The Magazine (UK)

51

^[10]

Mega (UK)

PAL

65

^[11]

Sega Magazine (UK)

PAL

89

^[2]

Sega Power (UK)

65

^[12]

	72
Based on 5 reviews

ESPN Baseball Tonight

Mega-CD, US
Cover
Disc Manual

Mega-CD, EU
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	96d8440c
MD5	a2a3b340e9b6bdd3d7b8fd4ff37419b1
SHA-1	8353eb5ccf4fe6676465eb2619b8ecb594191e0a

2MB

1994-04

Cartridge (US)

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

217,524,720

CD (EU)

T-93115-50

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

217,524,720

CD (US)

T-93115

References

ESPN-branded games for Sega systems or published by Sega
	ESPN Baseball Tonight (1994) \| ESPN National Hockey Night (1994) ESPN Sunday Night NFL (1994) \| ESPN Speedworld (1994)
	ESPN Baseball Tonight (1994) \| ESPN National Hockey Night (1994) ESPN Sunday Night NFL (1994) \| ESPN NBA Hangtime '95 (1994)
	ESPN International Track & Field (2000) \| ESPN NBA 2Night (2000) \| ESPN Baseball Tonight (unreleased) \| ESPN Links Golf (unreleased)
	ESPN College Hoops (2003) \| ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| ESPN NHL Hockey (2003) \| ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN Major League Baseball (2004) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NHL 2K5 (2004)
	ESPN College Hoops (2003) \| ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| ESPN NHL Hockey (2003) \| ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN Major League Baseball (2004) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NHL 2K5 (2004)
	Prima's Official Strategy Guide: ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| Prima's Official Strategy Guide: ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 Official Strategy Guide (2004) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 Official Strategy Guide (2004)

[:File:CVG_UK_160.pdf_p101-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Computer & Video Games, "March 1995" (UK; 1995-02-15), page 101

[:File:SegaMagazine_UK_14.pdf_p97-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Sega Magazine, "February 1995" (UK; 1995-01-15), page 97

[:File:GamesWorld_DE_03.pdf_p18-3] Games World Magazin, "" (DE; 1995-02-17), page 18

[:File:EGM_US_058.pdf_p109-4] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 109

[:File:GamePro_US_060.pdf_p52-5] GamePro, "July 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 52

[:File:EGM2_US_01.pdf_p86-6] EGM², "July 1994" (US; 1994-07-19), page 86

[7] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 105

[:File:GamePro_US_060.pdf_p119-8] GamePro, "July 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 119

[:File:SegaPro_UK_35.pdf_p48-9] Sega Pro, "August 1994" (UK; 1994-07-14), page 48

[:File:Games_World_The_Magazine_UK_09.pdf_p18-10] Games World: The Magazine, "March 1995" (UK; 1995-01-26), page 18

[:File:Mega_UK_29.pdf_p46-11] Mega, "February 1995" (UK; 1995-01-xx), page 46

[:File:SegaPower_UK_64.pdf_p57-12] Sega Power, "March 1995" (UK; 1995-01-19), page 57

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ESPN-branded games for Sega systems or published by Sega
	ESPN Baseball Tonight (1994) \| ESPN National Hockey Night (1994) ESPN Sunday Night NFL (1994) \| ESPN Speedworld (1994)
	ESPN Baseball Tonight (1994) \| ESPN National Hockey Night (1994) ESPN Sunday Night NFL (1994) \| ESPN NBA Hangtime '95 (1994)
	ESPN International Track & Field (2000) \| ESPN NBA 2Night (2000) \| ESPN Baseball Tonight (unreleased) \| ESPN Links Golf (unreleased)
	ESPN College Hoops (2003) \| ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| ESPN NHL Hockey (2003) \| ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN Major League Baseball (2004) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NHL 2K5 (2004)
	ESPN College Hoops (2003) \| ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| ESPN NHL Hockey (2003) \| ESPN College Hoops 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN Major League Baseball (2004) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004) \| ESPN NHL 2K5 (2004)
	Prima's Official Strategy Guide: ESPN NFL Football (2003) \| Prima's Official Strategy Guide: ESPN NBA Basketball (2003) \| ESPN NFL 2K5 Official Strategy Guide (2004) \| ESPN NBA 2K5 Official Strategy Guide (2004)

ESPN Baseball Tonight

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Contents

Production credits

Mega-CD version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

Mega-CD version

Technical information

ROM dump status

References