Gaming: Baseball Stars Professional for PS3/PNP

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December 8, 2010

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of their original console system, NeoGeo has just announced that, on Dec. 21, 2010, ten classic NeoGeo titles (see full list below) will make their way exclusively to the PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network. Relevant to this site is that one of the games in question is, in fact, Baseball Stars Professional.

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that, owing to its prohibitive cost (about $650 new), I never (a) owned a NeoGeo or (b) played many (any?) of the titles for it. Baseball Stars for NES, on the other hand, was/is a legitimately great game.

The cost of this particular edition of Baseball Stars is much friendlier to consumers, at just $8.99 (with later PSP versions costing $6.99). If the images below are to be believed, it’ll also offer a Network mode for playing online.

Here are a couple other screenshots from the game:

And here’s a full list of the titles available:

• Fatal Fury
• Alpha Mission II
• The King of Fighters ’94
• Samurai Showdown
• Baseball Stars Professional
• Magician Lord
• Metal Slug
• League Bowling
• Super Sidekicks
• Art of Fighting





 

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Craig Glaser
14 years ago

Wow this is exciting. A significant part of me still believes that Baseball Stars on NES is the best baseball game I’ve ever played. It was the first game I ever played where you could build a team, improve your players, climb the wall to take away HRs and slide on the ground to stop balls from getting by.

I hope they keep the same teams from the NES version and put in the codes to unlock the super make your own teams as well.

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