Ninja Baseball Bat Man
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| Developer(s) | Irem |
| Publisher(s) | Irem |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Scrolling fighting game |
| Mode(s) | Up to 4 players simultaneously |
Ninja Baseball Bat Man, also known as Yakyuu Kakutou League-Man, is an arcade game produced by Irem in 1993. It is a side-scrolling beat-em-up that features quirky, baseball-themed characters and enemies.
The player chooses from among four characters: Captain Jose, Stick Straw, Twinbats Ryno, and Beanball Roger. Each character attacks with one or more baseball bats, has his own set of special abilities, and has one extremely powerful maneuver that sacrifices health in order to annihilate every enemy on the screen. Jose is well-balanced, Straw has tremendous range, Ryno is speedy and wields two bats, and Roger is especially powerful. Their purpose is to recover various artifacts stolen from the Baseball Hall of Fame, a task prescribed to them by the Commissioner of Baseball.
Ninja Baseball Bat Man is extremely similar to many games released near the same time, including The Simpsons and X-Men. The game is not particularly innovative as far as gameplay, but its quirkiness and strangeness definitely set it apart from other similar beat-em-up games. The special abilities of each character are much like the mutant powers of X-Men, but the Ninja Baseball Bat Men are more versatile in their skill sets.
The game allows for four players to play simultaneously.
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