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ESPN Baseball Tonight

ESPN Baseball Tonight is a baseball game with both exhibition and playoff modes. Other modes included are both practice (both pitching and batting) and Home Run Derby modes. The game contains 28 real MLB teams…

31 December 1993

ESPN Baseball Tonight is a sport developed by Park Place Productions, released 31 December 1993 on Sega CD.

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What ESPN Baseball Tonight is

ESPN Baseball Tonight is a sport game developed by Park Place Productions and released in 1993. It was published by Sony Imagesoft. It is available on Sega CD only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

ESPN Baseball Tonight is a baseball game with both exhibition and playoff modes. Other modes included are both practice (both pitching and batting) and Home Run Derby modes. The game contains 28 real MLB teams but no actual players. Gameplay options include being able to turn errors on or off and to have assisted fielding on or off. Gameplay has the behind the batter viewpoint, whether pitching or batting. One thing to note when fielding, the player must manually throw the ball back to the pitcher for the game to continue. The Sega CD version is an update which includes the option for an 162 game season and has over 10 minutes of video highlights.
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Where it sits in the MLB series

ESPN Baseball Tonight is the ninth of 129 entries we hold in the MLB series. The next entry was Major League Baseball in 1993.

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What it launched against

ESPN Baseball Tonight launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers.

Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.

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When did ESPN Baseball Tonight come out?
ESPN Baseball Tonight was released on 31 December 1993 for Sega CD.

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