Champion Baseball

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Arcade SG-1000
Champion Baseball
System(s): Arcade, SG-1000
Publisher: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. John Sands Electronics (AU) Grandstand Leisure (NZ)
Developer: Alpha Denshi Sega Personal Computer Div.
Distributor: Wico (US)
Genre: Sports (baseball)
Number of players: 1-2 (alternating)
Release Date RRP Code JP 1983-03 ¥? ? US 198x $? ? JP 1983-10 ¥4,3004,300 G-1011 EU 1983 IT 198x 61,500£61,500 G-1011 AU 198x $39.9539.95 G-1011 NZ 1984 TW 198x

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Champion Baseball (チャンピオンベースボール) is an arcade baseball game developed by Alpha Denshi. Sega Enterprises, Ltd. distributed the game worldwide, and produced an SG-1000 port in 1983. Alpha Denshi also made a sequel, only released in arcades.

Synopsis

“	Squeeze, steal, and double play......!! This is a fully appealing and thrilling baseball game in which you can enjoy imaginable kinds of baseball patterns one after another as in an actual game. This game allows you to compete against the computer team (the P team versus the C team). Also, this game now permits 2 players to compete against each other and assures that your enjoyment will be doubly increased.	„
— AU SG-1000 box backcover

History

Champion Baseball was a hugely successful arcade game in Japan, even receiving its own dedicated parlours in the country (of the sort first seen with Space Invaders in 1978). Sega had sold at least 15,000 units in Japan before bringing the game to the US.

The SG-1000 port, however, was criticized for the slow speed, confuse hit detection (is practically impossible to known if the ball was hit or the opposite team catched the ball), simplistic graphics (even for the system's limitations) and grating sound effects.

Magazine articles

Main article: Champion Baseball/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Arcade US flyer

PDF

Arcade US flyer (conversion kit)

Arcade JP flyer

Print advert in Cash Box (US) #1983-07-02: "July 2, 1983" (1983-07-02)

Artwork

Physical scans

Arcade version

Arcade, US (upright)

Arcade, US (cocktail)

Arcade, JP
Instuction card(s)

SG-1000 version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Based on 0 review

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Computer Input (NZ)Computer Input (NZ) 70

	70
Based on 1 review

Champion Baseball

SG-1000, JP (Type A)
Cover
Cart Manual Inside

SG-1000, JP (Type B)
Cover
Cart Manual

SG-1000, JP (Type C)
Cover
Cart Manual

SG-1000, EU

SG-1000, AU
Cover
Cart Inside

SG-1000, NZ
Cover
Cart Inside

SG-1000, TW

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 5970a12b MD5 f70d4bcf91d3ad9313f9800f35b49536 SHA-1 737b9478c4ce6df2afcd36f78011019f5d669226	16kB		Cartridge (JP)
?	CRC32 c0c16fa7 MD5 308e337a863bb9fa952426ef99180aa7 SHA-1 85e5c2f354b9110e5f7c7dfcc7ab9814598b7956	40kB		Cartridge (JP)	(Alt)
?	CRC32 677e6878 MD5 ec2d21452b4cbb6b302e9319fdab7e39 SHA-1 b674ea2ea50f45b20c60d9dec5bf2e88e2b1cba5	16kB		Cartridge (TW)