Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
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Developer(s) | Iguana Entertainment Realtime Associates |
Publisher(s) | Acclaim |
Designer(s) | Brett Gow[1] |
Composer(s) | Greg Turner Eric Swanson Darren Mitchell (SNES) |
Platforms | Sega Genesis, Super NES, Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, DOS |
Release date(s) | Super NES:
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Genre(s) | Traditional baseball simulation |
Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball is a multiplatform baseball simulation game that was licensed by the Major League Baseball Players Association, featuring the likeness, motion captured movements, and "Big Hurt" branding of player Frank Thomas.
All the teams, statistics, and players are meant to simulate the 1995 Major League Baseball season.[3] Acclaim released a successor to the game also featuring Thomas and now featuring actual major league teams, All-Star Baseball '97 Featuring Frank Thomas.
Gameplay
Featuring realistic pitching, realistic batting, and a realistic likeness of Frank Thomas himself for the game's era, there are also regular season and exhibition modes.[1]
Pitching and batting can be done either in a high, medium, or low direction (in addition to slow, medium, or fast pitching) for greater realism.[1] Greater emphasis was placed on defense and pitching, as opposed to more offense-oriented baseball video games like World Series Baseball '95. Games often take place at night; especially at Wrigley Field.[4]
Games can be played to a minimum of two innings and a maximum of nine innings (plus any extra innings that occur in a tied game). All the teams in the game can be edited through a special edit screen; this allows players to replace teams that they don't like with their home towns (that don't have Major League Baseball teams).[5]
More than 700 players with Major League Baseball contracts appeared in the game.
Development
Frank Thomas's animations in the game were created from several days of motion capture filming Thomas at Acclaim's in-house studio during Spring 1995.[6]
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External links
- 『アクレイムジャパン ビッグハートベースボール(SS)』 (Japanese)
- Pages using vgrelease with named parameters
- Articles with Japanese-language external links
- 1995 video games
- Acclaim Entertainment games
- DOS games
- Game Boy games
- Sega Game Gear games
- PlayStation games
- Major League Baseball video games
- Realtime Associates games
- Sega Genesis games
- Sega Saturn games
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Video games set in 1995
- Multiplayer and single-player video games