Mario Superstar Baseball
GAME » on August 29, 2005
Mario and friends head to the field in this crazy baseball game. Play through several games against iconic captains in the highly replayable single player mode or play with friends in a baseball game, minigames, or on the Toy Field.


Overview

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The game's title screen with Mario swinging for the fences.

In this Nintendo (Company) Gamecube game Mario Superstar Baseball, Mario & friends compete in a new game, baseball! This game has 6 stadiums, a Challenge Mode, Toy Field, and more. This game features plenty of batting, pitching, running, and Star Swings

In the story mode, you choose one of the teams, headlined by one of the major Mario (Franchise) character. The rest of your team is populated depending on who you chose by other minor Mario characters such as Shy Guys and Koopas. You go around a large over-world challenging the other teams that you did not choose. As you fight them, star opportunities come up for each character you face. If you get a certain amount of stars, the character you faced when you earned them will join your team at the end of the match. After you beat all of the other teams, you will be allowed to challenge Bowser (Character). The overworld also had many minigames and a store that you could purchase special items and moves from. As you walked around the overworld, you would occasionaly run into one of the mini bowsers that would challenge you to a match.


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One of the 6 stadiums in the game, Mario Stadium.

The gameplay is very similar to many old Baseball games. The longer you hold down the A button, the harder the hit will be. If you hit the ball at different distances from you, it would change the trajectory of the ball. In the outfield you control where the ball would go with the D-Pad. Each of the stadiums had it's individual characteristics that would change how the game would work, for example, one stage had coin blocks in the sky that the ball would hit, and one had a piranha plant that would hit any of the outfield players that got too close. These different stadiums varied up the gameplay and kept the player interested. This was the first game to feature both goomba's and paragoomba's as playable characters.


Characters

Team Captains

Name Style Special
Mario (Character) Balanced Fireball
Luigi (Character) Balanced Green Fireball
Birdo (Character) Balanced Flower Ball
Daisy Balanced Weird Egg
Peach Technique Heart Ball
Waluigi (Character) Technique Liar Ball
Yoshi (Character) Speed Egg Ball
Diddy Kong (Character) Speed Boomerang Ball
Wario (Character) Power Phony Ball
Donkey Kong (Character) Power Banana Ball
Bowser (Character) Power Killer Ball
Bowser Jr. Power Killer Jr. Ball


Team Players

Name Style
Toad (Character) Balanced
Koopa Troopa (Concept) Balanced
Shy Guy (Concept) Balanced
Goomba (Concept) Balanced
Toadsworth (Character) Technique
Magikoopa (Concept) Technique
Dry Bones (Concept) Technique
Boo (Concept) Technique
Koopa Paratroopa (Concept) Technique
Dixie Kong (Character) (Unlockable) Technique
Baby Mario Speed
Baby Luigi (Unlockable) Speed
Noki (Concept) Speed
Paragoomba (Concept) Speed
Monty Mole (Concept) (Unlockable) Speed
Toadette (Character) (Unlockable) Speed
King Boo (Character) Power
Petey Piranha (Character) (Unlockable) Power
Pianta (Concept) Power
Hammer Bro (Character) (Unlockable) Power

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Game details
Name
Mario Superstar Baseball
Release Date
August 29, 2005
Platform
GameCube (Platform)
Developer
Publisher
Genre
Baseball (Genre)
Franchise
Mario (Franchise), Mario Baseball (Franchise)