| | |  | More Systems | Home » » » Mario Superstar Baseball | | | | | | | Description: | | Mario Baseball delivers terrific arcade sports gaming, combined with classic Mario game action! All the challenges of the popular sport combined with the weird, wacky fun of Mario's world come together, for laughs and thrills. | | | Features: | |
• Wild power-ups enhance your character's fielding and pitching controls
• Try out Challenge Mode, where you'll wander the land clearing baseball trials
• Go to the Toy Field, where you can hit balls at targets to earn coins and other prizes
• More than 50 characters from the Mario universe to play with, or against
• Crazy mini-games and four-person multiplayer action
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.34 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.08 pounds | | Release Date:
| August 30, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 71 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| GameCube | | Media:
| Video Game | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
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41 of 50 found the following review helpful:
Batter Up!Sep 01, 2005
By Michael Kerner
"Michael Kerner"
Arguably, Nintendo really knows exactly how to put the Mario franchise within the worlds of sports extraordinarily well. It first started with the status of the fast and furious Mario Kart series. Then, it was more laid back towards the putters with the wild and wacky Mario Golf series. After that, it took a turn towards aces with the Mario Tennis games for the Nintendo 64, and last year with the Gamecube. Still, there are a few other sports that are going to have the Mario bandwagon soon. Within the next year, there will be the European football, or soccer hyped Super Mario Strikers. But in the meantime, a Spring and Boys Of Summer tradition called baseball.
Mario Superstar Baseball for the Nintendo Gamecube, is a fast paced and eclectic gamers paradise through the world of baseball. The game really goes a lot deeper from the Super Mario Briothers series past and present with so many characters like Yoshi, Luigi, Mario, Peach. Also, some old favorites like the flying goombas, and dry bones from Super Mario Brothers 3, Koopa Troopa, and so many others. Arguably, the graphics are just delightful, and the gameplay and control is very easy to learn for some characfters, whether it is in the pitching, or the batting, and simply within the outfield. The fields also blend within each unique feeling of the Mario worlds with courses from the Princess Castle, and even the wild and wooly jungle worlds of Donkey Kong. The musical score is as cutesy, but not over the top for the game, but that arguably doesn't matter at all.
Mario Superstar baseball is a great addition for any fan of Mario, and baseball alone. While, there have been so few baseball games for the Nintendo Gamecube, this happens to really be one of the very few that does stand alone. This is a great sports game, and one of the few that really does hit a home run.
Graphics: B+
Sound: B-
Control: B+
Fun & Enjoyment: B- if you're playing solo; A- if you're playing with others
Overall: B
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Fun at FirstFeb 13, 2006
By Joyce Green
"Adam John"
Mario Baseball is a entertaning game that is tons of fun at first. Anyone who buys the game will love so many of the intresting features like powerups mini-games, and fields. However you will find yourself very frustrated at times with the fact that you did not make the right play because the feilding controls are herd to master. Also after a while the game is not fun ro play for many then about 1/2 hour at atime.
Pros
*So many diffrent charcters to make up your team with
*Mini-games help to master some of your playing skills and are also fun
*Graphics and Sounds are good as always
*More characters can be unlocked
*Each character has a special ability that can be used when pitching or hiting
Cons
*Can get boring after a while
*The controls while on the feild can be hard to master
Overall
If you are a Mario sports fan it is exactly what you would expect. If you are a baseball fan this game might be alittle to crazy for you. However I think that it is worth a purchase because the game is entertaining even though it is not one of the best Mario sports games on the market.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 AhoyayFeb 01, 2006
By Matthew D. Tanner
"MDTanner"
This is the most fun I've had playing a baseball game in a while. You need to have a friend or two that you can play baseball games with and you will be whisked back to the good old days when games made you so mad you wanted to throw your controller and kill your friends. They should have made the A.I. better and there should have been more characters if you ask me but still, you have to love the addictive/destructive nature of Mario Baseball!
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Absolute Mario Madness!!! =)Sep 04, 2005
I played this game at Best Buy and it was impossible to resist!
Here are why I liked this game: (thank you, nintendo!)
- easy hitting, pitching, fielding, etc.
- familliar field backgrounds (like yoshi's field)
Of course the mini games (my favorite is 'wall ball') totally rock. The Mush Room (that's what it's actually said) on the bob-omb is hard. (hint: the high score in the beginning is 1000)
Yup! This game is a 5 star indeed!
I can't finish it because it's soooo fun!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Now what?Jan 21, 2006
First off, if you want a good multiplayer game, here you go. Mario sports are always fun multiplayer, and it holds true here. But single player in Mario Superstar Baseball is abysmal. I had fun playing through challenge to unlock everything, and it took me about 9-10 hours of total gameplay. If there could have been some sort of a season mode it would have been excellent. There is NO replayability to challenge, and now that I've beaten it all I can do single player is sit around and play exhibition. With just a little bit more effoert, this game could have been marvelous, but my copy sits on the shelf collecting dust in between multiplayer uses.
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