Tornado Baseball

a.k.a. Ball Park

published by Midway / Taito in 1976-07, developed by Ramtek, running on Arcade
type: sport
genre: Multiplayer, Baseball, Arcade
perspective: bird's-eye
languages: eng
2.5/5
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Description

Tornado Baseball is a two player baseball game. Players alternate batting and field play without having to switch positions around the arcade cabinet. The game allows a full nine inning game to be played or single innings. The game is monochrome, but uses a semi-transparent mirror to project the screen on a coloured stadium background.


Released in October 1976 in Japan, not in 1979 as other forums indicate.
Tornado Baseball and Ball Park are Licensed from Ramtek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Taito_games
https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=ball-park&page=detail&id=26944
https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/Ball_Park_(Midway)

Be careful, there are contradictions in the same sources, but many of their contents are correct. Therefore, this judge belongs to Ramtek, which gave rights to Midway, and Midway craftily granted rights to Ramtek, which of course meant a problem between both companies, which was corrected with monetary compensation at the time.

Becoro # 2023-12-26 17:06:38

Technical specs

software: Emulated on MAME,
display: Monotone

Authors / Staff

coding

Jeff Fredricksen (programmed)
Thomas McHugh (programmed)

hardware

Dave Nutting (Hardware)

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