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It is the 1st title in the Famista series on the SFC, and the Super Famista series would go on to be developed across 5 titles in all, up to Super Famista 5 (1996) (up to 4 it was released every year in 3.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the magazine Family Computer Magazine,it scored 23.37 out of 30, as shown below.
This score placed it 32nd among all Super Famicom titles (323 titles in total, as of 1993).
In addition, in the "Best 30 by Category" section carried at the end of the "Super Famicom All Catalog '93" special supplement to the 1993-8 news issue of SUPER FAMICOM Magazine, it took 24th place for controls and 6th place for value for money.
the local version of the SFC) (see #Overview#North American version).
In Batter Up (the North American version of Gear Stadium), released the previous year for the Game Gear (the North American version of the Game Gear), the three-heads-tall characters distinctive to Famista were used as they were, but in this game eight-heads-tall characters closer to reality were adopted.
From this game on, licences for the use of real names for team names and player names could be obtained officially from Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and real names were used for team names for the first time in the series and for player names for the first time since Pro Yakyu World Stadium (1988).
Allgame editor Brett Alan Weiss described Super Batter Up as "an average baseball game", although he praised the game's "solid controls".
Allgame editor Brett Alan Weiss described Super Batter Up as "an average baseball game", although he praised the game's "solid controls".
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