Compatible emulators

Synopsis

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Japan. It was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, who taught at the Kaisei School in Tokyo. The first baseball team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878. Baseball has been a popular sport ever since. It is called yakyu in Japanese, combining the characters for field and ball.
The professional baseball association is called Nippon Professional Baseball. Japan has two leagues, as in the United States. The Central and Pacific Leagues each consisted of six teams. The Pacific League uses the designated hitter style of play. The pro baseball season is eight months long with games beginning in April, and a Championship held in October. Teams play 144 games, as compared to the 162 games of the American major league teams.
Corporations with interests outside baseball own the teams. Historically, teams have been identified with their owners, not where the team is based. However, in recent years, many owners have chosen to include a place name in the names of their teams; seven of the 12 NPB teams are currently named with corporate and place names. Maruha Corporation has taken this one step further by completely dropping its name from its NPB team, the Yokohama BayStars.
Simulation Pro Yakyuu '99 allows the player to be the coach of a professional baseball team, the game features stats and data of the year 1999 season. In the game the player can buy or sell players between teams and edit teams in the editor, decide the team strategy, the tactics during the match, etc. The game allows the player to view the match or only the results.

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