Ninja Baseball Bat Man

kraquepype · Nov 16, 2015

Has anyone played this?

Guy at work turned me onto it. Looks like a quirky TNMT type beat-em up. Looks like fun.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb4-1G4Tc-I

skate323k137 · Nov 16, 2015

Pretty sure it was the beat-em-up of the month recently. Fun game for sure.

Kid Panda · Nov 16, 2015

Yea, I have a board that is having massive issues, need to get it fixed, it's one of the few US boards made. Watch out for the bootlegs.

kraquepype · Nov 16, 2015

Kid Panda said:
Yea, I have a board that is having massive issues, need to get it fixed, it's one of the few US boards made. Watch out for the bootlegs.

Yeah a quick eBay browse turned up what looks like a boot. Hoping I can find a good board one day. Otherwise I'll be firing it up in mame on my Ouya soon.

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BerryTogart · Nov 17, 2015

DragonmasterDan · Nov 17, 2015

Galloping Ghost arcade has it. It's a fun game, I think there's a bit of a novelty to it because of just how qwerky of a concept it is. But it's a solid though unspectacular beat-em up nonetheless.

Ip Man · Nov 17, 2015

i played it years ago on mame after watching the avgn review.remember really liking it.but would still rather play aliens vs predator or final fight.

cat · Nov 17, 2015

I saw it in a game sack episode a while back, left in the arcades i think it was called, looked a fun, quirky game, judging by the title i'm assuming this game never saw the light of day on a home console.

Yagyu Jubei · Nov 17, 2015

Tried it out on MAME a while back. It's a helluva fun beatemup. PC Engine would have made a perfect port for this.

Ip Man · Nov 17, 2015

Yagyu Jubei said:
Tried it out on MAME a while back. It's a helluva fun beatemup. PC Engine would have made a perfect port for this.

kind of looks over powered for the pc engine.the saturn maybe?.

BodyHammeR · Nov 17, 2015

Never heard of this game. But then in 1993 I was either in the arcade playing assorted Neo Geo games, or at home cuddling my Amiga and SNES (:

andsuchisdeath · Nov 17, 2015

bogard said:
kind of looks over powered for the pc engine.the saturn maybe?.

Haha I know right. PC-Engine is out of the question, or any home console from that era.

Saturn, alright, but Irem didn't have much output in older arcade ports during the 32-Bit era. There were some, In The Hunt, X-Multiply/Image Fight, but I would imagine a title would have had to be a strong earner in arcades to receive a port during this time frame.

Given the relative rarity of the board (both Japan and US), I'm assuming it wasn't. The look and style during the time couldn't have been better tailored for a western market IMO. If the game received a wider release here at the time, there's no doubt that the youth of america would have been wearing Ninja Baseball Batman backpacks on the way to Toys R Us to buy their NBB figures after watching the NBB cartoon.

andsuchisdeath · Nov 17, 2015

DragonmasterDan said:
It's a fun game, I think there's a bit of a novelty to it because of just how qwerky of a concept it is. But it's a solid though unspectacular beat-em up nonetheless.

How do you know how unspectacular it is? Do you have any idea how to play it?

DragonmasterDan · Nov 17, 2015

andsuchisdeath said:
How do you know how unspectacular it is? Do you have any idea how to play it?

I actually sat and played through it with a friend a couple years ago. I used basic beat em up mechanics but by no means took the time to master the intricacies of the combat system.
With that said I recall it being unusually difficult and if it weren't set to free-play I wouldn't have made it very far.

I'd say the level design was cool aesthetically and the baseball theme was cartoonish and fun, but once the novelty of that wore off the fact beat em ups are kind of a repetitive genre set in. Keep in mind, by no means am I saying this is a bad game. It just doesn't jump out to me in the way that Turtles in Time or say for example the D&D Beat Em ups by Capcom do those games are rare examples in the genre that I would describe spectacular, thus my comment.

andsuchisdeath · Nov 17, 2015

DragonmasterDan said:
With that said I recall it being unusually difficult and if it weren't set to free-play I wouldn't have made it very far.

but once the novelty of that wore off the fact beat em ups are kind of a repetitive genre set in.

You shouldn't be critiquing beat 'em ups .

Expressing enjoyment or dislike for a game and making claims on a game's perceived shortcomings without an understanding of the subject are two different things. You must discern.

Yagyu Jubei · Nov 17, 2015

bogard said:
kind of looks over powered for the pc engine.the saturn maybe?.

Totally do-able with the Arcade card. Saturn would work too.

andsuchisdeath · Nov 17, 2015

Yagyu Jubei said:
Totally do-able with the Arcade card. Saturn would work too.

What arcade card games are even close to the sprite heavy style and look of Ninja Baseball Bat Man?

I bet a NBBM port on the PC Engine would end up looking like the Martial Champion port (granted, not an arcade card game).

Totally inappropriate!

Yagyu Jubei · Nov 17, 2015

andsuchisdeath said:
What arcade card games are even close to the sprite heavy style and look of Ninja Baseball Bat Man?

I bet a NBBM port on the PC Engine would end up looking like the Martial Champion port (granted, not an arcade card game).

Totally inappropriate!

Fatal Fury Special and AOF1 are sprite heavy and both look great on the Duo. Not arcade perfect but those ports are excellent. A NBBM 4 player would be too much. 2P port on Duo. Full 4P on Saturn.

Liquid Snake · Nov 17, 2015

It's weird that this game doesn't have typical IREM art style. I thought the art style is very similar to Data East................kinda funny

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