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Home Run Night '90: The Pennant League Nintendo
Home Run Night '90: The Pennant League is a Sports game, developed and published by Data East, which was released in Japan in 1990.
Two years after the release of Home Run Night, Home Run '90 was released to the Japanese public. First off, this game could pass as an RBI Baseball clone.
Usually, sequels improve their graphics. Not in this case. The players have all shrunk, and are back to having no faces. Well, the pitcher does have eyes. Speaking of the pitcher, the guy is a twig. The pitchers in this game are really skinny. The graphics in the original were so nice.
The music is rather nice. It actually sounds like baseball music, unlike the original. The sound is decent. It's your typical NES, or in this case, Famicom Baseball sounds. BLEEP and BLOOP. Over and over and over and over and so on. Even the bass drummers were gone!
Surprisingly, the difficulty is cranked down. That may be a relief for some of you. As for the baseball, it still plays pretty well. It's easy to bat, pitch, and field. The original was more fun to play. Back to the review. In this game, 3 stadiums were available. An outdoor stadium, a dome stadium, and what appears to be a junkyard or something. The junkyard is really weird. The grass is funky colored. The weirdest part is that by first and third, there are pipes laid out. I'm not sure the point of them. My only guess is that their job is to trip players trying to catch foul balls.