Baseball - 1983 (FCS, NES)

BASEBALL ベースボール ©1983 Nintendo Version: Famicom (FCS) Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: NINTENDO - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 2 DIVISION (R&D2) Development: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Additional Work:

KEY STAFF: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Director: Kenji Miki Planning: Shigeru Miyamoto Visual: Shigeru Miyamoto, Tadashi Sugiyama Sound: Yukio Kaneoka Producer: Masayuki Uemura Executive: Hiroshi Yamauchi

NOTES: Developed by Nintendo R&D2. Director is believed to be Kenji Miki, who directed most of R&D2 games outside of Shigeru Miyamoto. Shigeru Miyamoto recalled that in 1983, he "personally really wanted there to be a Baseball game" for the Famicom, and was "directly in charge of the character design and the game design". Uemura recalls the programmer would always work late into the night, night after night falling asleep at his desk. With the director frantically trying to keep him awake. It was ported to the arcade as VS. Baseball in 1984. Full Staff List: Baseball Credits

INFOBOX Version: Famicom (FCS), Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Source: Kyoto Report Investigative Methods. ← Back to Production Archive ← Back to Personnel Database ← Back to Developer Listing ← Back to Home