Home Run Night '90: The Pennant League - Nintendo NES

Another chapter in my NES baseball saga. Two years after the release of Home Run Night, Home Run '90 was released to the Japanese public. I loved the original Home Run Night, but I'm not so crazy about this one. First off, this game could pass as an RBI Baseball clone. Wow, someone would actually clone a Tengen game? WTF! Well, here is the review ^Graphics^ Usually, sequels improve their graphics. Not in this case. The players have all shrunk, and are back to having no faces. Well, the pitcher does have eyes. Speaking of the pitcher, the guy is a twig. The pitchers in this game are really skinny. The graphics in the original were so nice, I don't see why the producers felt the need to change that. ^Music and Sound^ The music is rather nice. It actually sounds like baseball music, unlike the original. The sound is decent. It's your typical NES, or in this case, Famicom Baseball sounds. BLEEP and BLOOP. Over and over and over and over and so on. Even the bass drummers were gone! I loved the base drummers! Damn you, Home Run Night '90!!! ^Gameplay^ Surprisingly, the difficulty is cranked down. That may be a relief for some of you. As for the baseball, it still plays pretty well. It's easy to bat, pitch, and field and I guess that's the important thing. So why don't I like it? The original was more fun to play. Back to the review. In this game, 3 stadiums were available. An outdoor stadium, a dome stadium, and what appears to be a junkyard or something. The junkyard park (I've dubbed it that, I don't know the real name, it's in Japanese) is really weird. The grass is funky colored. The weirdest part is that by first and third, there are pipes laid out. I'm not sure the point of them. My only guess is that their job is to trip players trying to catch foul balls. If your looking for this game, or the original, download the ROM. If you can speak Japanese and have a converter, hop on ebay and pick this game up. Actually, you don't even need to know the language to play it. But if you really want good baseball, try the original, not this disappointment.

Note : 0/5

Year : 1990

Genre : Sports