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| | | Charming little fantasy sports game, plays pretty much like baseball except of course that you can throw the ball directly at baserunners to tag them out.
The game is so simple, in fact (there's really nothing to pitching, since they all roll right over the plate, except that you get a limited number of power throws per game that are close to unhittable), that you can't really play it for long against the computer. Against a human, though, it makes for darn good fun, as you get in to all kinds of weird little running battles, with fielders gunning the ball at runners, the runners jumping to dodge it and then dashing madly for base, etc.
The teams are quite strange (tentacled aliens, walruses, anime girls, etc), the graphics powerfully cute, and the tunes light and bouncy. That's about all there is to the game, however, so don't come here looking for league play or anything like that. |
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| | | The teams don't feel exactly balanced. For instance, when I played as the anime girl team (and each player on a team looks and plays exactly alike) they never ran to assist each other in fielding the ball, but then when I played as the tentacled aliens, they would run over and help out, which made a huge difference.
Playing Vs the computer I hit a lot of weird fielding moments where a fielder would throw the ball at someone and it would end up lying on the field, just spinning in place, with no fielder near it able to move to pick it up. Once I had it sitting at about the pitcher's mound and had to bring in my outfield to get it. Fortunately the CPU didn't take advantage of that, because he could have easily rounded the bases and scored. |
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| | | | Screen strobe when someone nails the timing of a kick or throw. 8P |
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| | | I'm selling mine:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/146889573230
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This is the game "KickBall" for the Japanese PC Engine game system ("PCE"). Includes the actual game HuCARD only--none of the original packaging is included.
HuCARD only. The HuCARD is in excellent condition. I tested the HuCARD and it played with no problems.
Please note that this is the Japanese version of the game, requiring a Japanese PC Engine system for play; it will NOT play in a western TurboGrafx-16 system.
If the winning bid is $80 or more I will upgrade the shipping to USPS Priority Mail at no charge--the shipping will remain free, just faster.
Bids on this item do NOT require a payment method. |
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