All-Star Baseball 97
All-Star Baseball 97 brings to the plate several features that build upon 1996's Frank Thomas "Big Hurt" Baseball. The most notable additions are both Major League Baseball and MLBPA licenses, offering 30…
All-Star Baseball 97 is a sport developed by Iguana Entertainment, released 30 June 1997 on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
What All-Star Baseball 97 is
All-Star Baseball 97 is a sport game developed by Iguana Entertainment and released in 1997. It was published by Acclaim. It is available on PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
The premise, in the publisher's words
All-Star Baseball 97 brings to the plate several features that build upon 1996's Frank Thomas "Big Hurt" Baseball. The most notable additions are both Major League Baseball and MLBPA licenses, offering 30 official teams and stadiums as well as over 700 real players with ratings based on the 1996 season. Six different modes of play include Exhibition, Season, Playoffs, All-Star Game, Batting Practice, and Home Run Derby. Also included are trades allowing would-be General Managers to help their teams make a run at the World Series. Play-by-play announcing is provided by award winning Jon Miller of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, and "dynamic stadium sounds" have vendors hawking peanuts and…
How it plays
It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
All-Star Baseball 97 holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average.
What it launched against
All-Star Baseball 97 launched on 30 June 1997, within three weeks of Disney's Hercules Action Game and Lula: The Sexy Empire. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire.
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