Super Bases Loaded is a Super NES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...

 baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 video game. This game is known as in Japan. The game is the fifth overall installment of the Bases Loaded series, and first installment of the secondary series for the Super Nintendo.

The North American version includes a sponsorship from Ryne Sandberg

Ryne Sandberg

Ryne Dee Sandberg , nicknamed "Ryno" is a former Major League Baseball second baseman. During a 16-year baseball career, he played from 1981–1994 and 1996–97, spending nearly his entire career with the Chicago Cubs. He was named after relief pitcher Ryne Duren, and is recognized as one of the best...

, one of the most dominant players in contemporary Major League Baeball history.

Gameplay

When the player loses a game, the player is disqualified and he/she is sent back to the title screen to try again on the lowest level of play. When the player wins the game however, the game gives the player a score between 0 and 100.

Getting 100 once takes you to the toughest level, where getting the perfect 100 score again means that the player has defeated the game and credits start to appear. Achieving a score lower than normal, gets the player demoted to a lower level and a stern message from the invisible drill instructor

Drill instructor

A drill instructor is a non-commissioned officer or Staff Non-Commissioned Officer in the armed forces or police forces with specific duties that vary by country. In the U.S. armed forces, they are assigned the duty of indoctrinating new recruits entering the military into the customs and...

 that is the game. However, getting a higher score than normal gets the player promoted to the next level and admirations from the game itself.

The advertising in the game consists of spoofs

Parody

A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

from actual companies that were in existence in the early 1990s. The language of the advertisements are in English in the North American version while the Japanese version (called Super Professional Baseball) has most of its advertisements in Japanese. In addition to this, home run messages appear in either English or Japanese, depending on what version the player has. The player has two edit teams and he/she can edit the names of the player and career statistics in an attempt to either improve the batter/pitcher or to deliberately make him perform worse on the field.

Professional teams

• Atlanta Amoebas
• Boston Buzzards
• Chicago Cyclops
• New York Mercs
• Philadelphia Hawks
• Washington Weasels
• Hawaii Islanders
• Kansas City Kings
• Los Angeles Lizards
• Seattle Storm
• Texas Tornados
• Utah Stars

The player can also edit their own team in this game.