HardBall 5

HardBall 5
DOS cover art
Developer(s)MindSpan
Publisher(s)Accolade
PlayStation
  • NA: Accolade
  • JP: SPS Co., Ltd.
Producer(s)Michael Person
Pam Levins
Programmer(s)Jeff Sember
Mike Benna
Artist(s)Chris Eckardt
Dale Mauk
James Johnson
Writer(s)Jim Carr
Composer(s)Brian Shaw
SeriesHardBall!
Platform(s)DOS, PlayStation, Sega Genesis
ReleaseDOS
Genesis
  • NA: June 1995
PlayStation
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

HardBall 5 is a video game developed by American studio MindSpan and published by Sport Accolade for DOS, the Sega Genesis, and the PlayStation. Al Michaels provides color commentary.

Gameplay

HardBall 5 is a baseball game with completely adjustable statistics.[3] All MLB teams are featured, although the team logos are absent and replaced with fictional ones.

A special league featuring historic teams of the past is also available.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the Genesis version of the game as HardBall '95, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Sim fanatics will love the stats, but the poor gameplay quickly removes any ideas of playing out a whole season."[5]

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "The latest addition to the Hardball series is a good, solid one, but there's still a lot of room for improvement."[3]

Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Hardball 5 is best viewed as a strict statistical simulation. Anyone who's looking for a playable baseball game should look elsewhere."[6]

As of February 1997 the game sold over 250,000 copies.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Accolade ships HardBall 5 for PC CD-ROM; the ultimate baseball simulation in a league by itself". Business Wire. October 9, 1995. Archived from the original on February 26, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2021 – via The Free Dictionary.
  2. ^ "PlayStation Soft > 1996". GAME Data Room. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  3. ^ a b "Finals". Next Generation. No. 14. Imagine Media. February 1996. p. 171.
  4. ^ House, Matthew. "Hardball 5 (PlayStation) Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  5. ^ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 8. Imagine Media. August 1995. p. 75.
  6. ^ "Finals". Next Generation. No. 19. Imagine Media. July 1996. p. 74.
  7. ^ "Accolade". Archived from the original on 1998-02-01.


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