BatterUP is a "24-inch foam-covered plastic" baseball bat-shaped controller

Game controller

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 manufactured for the personal computer

Personal computer

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, SEGA Genesis, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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 by Sports Sciences Inc.

Games compatible with the Super Nintendo version according to instruction manual

• Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball, 1992 Mindscape
• ESPN Baseball Tonight
  ESPN Baseball Tonight
  ESPN Baseball Tonight is a baseball video game for the PC, Super NES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega CD.-Summary:The game was licensed by MLB, but not by the Players Association, so while actual team names and logos are used, no player names are in the game.The lead programmers for the project...
  
  , 1994 Sony Imagesoft
• Hardball III , 1994 Accolade
• Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
  Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball
  Ken Griffey, Jr. Presents Major League Baseball is a Super NES baseball game that was released in 1994. The game has a Major League Baseball license but not a Major League Baseball Players Association license, meaning that the game has real stadiums and real teams, but not real players...
  
  , 1994 Nintendo
• Ken Griffey, Jr.'s Winning Run, 1996 Nintendo
• MLBPA Baseball
  MLBPA Baseball
  MLBPA Baseball, known in Japan as , is a baseball video game for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Game Gear.-Summary:The game included the 1993 season's major league players and stats thanks to its MLBPA license, but could not use team names for lack of an MLB license...
  
  , 1994 EA Sports
• Sports Illustrated Championship Football and Baseball, 1993 Malibu Games
• Super Baseball, 1994 EA Techmo
• Super Batter Up
  Super Batter Up
  Super Batter Up is a baseball video game with both a one- and two-player mode plus a league mode. The game was released at a suggested retail price of $89.99 in American dollars.-Summary:...
  
  , 1993 Namco

Reception

According to Business Wire, "the video version of Batter Up was chosen by the editors of Popular Science

Popular Science

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as one of 1994's most innovative products. Batter Up was also chosen as a winner of Innovations '95 by the Consumer Electronics Show

Consumer Electronics Show

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External links

• Batter Up!