World Class Baseball

World Class Baseball is a video game in the sports genre developed by Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. and published by Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. originally released in 1988. It is currently playable on Sharp X68000.

World Class Baseball is a baseball game. The player controls the pitcher and fielders (through an automatic system that, following the tradition of baseball games, gives him control over the player who is closest to the ball); not the batter. One or two small windows show the status of the runner during the face-off between the batter and the pitcher; once the ball is hit, the view switches to bird's eye, showing a good portion of the playing field where the action is taking place, along with a small permanent image of the field at the bottom right of the screen showing the position of each player on the entire field.

The game consists of an arcade mode (the 'Pennant mode') in which the player has to directly defeat all the opposing teams one at a time; a two-player mode (the 'Versus mode') in which two players face each other in a single match, the 'Open mode' to challenge the computer in a single match and a computer-only mode (the 'Clock mode'), which sees a challenge between two teams both controlled by the CPU. The 'Edit' mode allows the player to change the team's starting lineup and rotation.

Teams are divided into two groups: South Division (consisting of teams from Bangkok, Beijing, Moscow, Paris, Rome and Sydney); North Division (featuring teams from Chicago, Los Angeles, London, New York, Tokyo and Toronto). There are no officially licensed baseball teams.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.