High Heat Baseball 1999

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High Heat Baseball 1999
Developer(s)Team .366
Publisher(s)The 3DO Company
SeriesHigh Heat Major League Baseball
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

High Heat Baseball 1999, also known as High Heat Baseball or High Heat, is a video game released in 1998, and is the first game in the High Heat Major League Baseball video game series.

Gameplay

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Pitcher performance statistics affect how well that pitcher throws at the beginning of a game compared to later, how often he uses a given type of pitch, and how well he performs against right-handed or left-handed batters.[4]

Development

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High Heat Baseball 1999 was developed by Team .366, an internal development team of The 3DO Company.[5] Development begin in 1995 for 3DO's Opera system, then moved to the Panasonic M2, before finally being targeted towards PCs.[4] A PlayStation port of the game was announced,[4][5] but was never released.

The developers opted to cut out between-play action such as the ball being returned to the pitcher after a ball or strike, in order to keep games down to about a half-hour for players who do not have time for long gaming sessions.[4]

Reception

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The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "New Releases". GameSpot. April 1, 1998. Archived from the original on September 30, 2000. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
  2. ^ Ocampo, Jason (April 8, 1998). "High Heat in Season". Computer Games Strategy Plus. Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on July 5, 2003. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  3. ^ "3DO Awards Hal Riney & Partners Corporate Account". Business Wire. April 2, 1998. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2021 – via The Free Dictionary.
  4. ^ a b c d "NG Alphas: High Heat Baseball". Next Generation. No. 40. Imagine Media. April 1998. pp. 66–67.
  5. ^ a b Air Hendrix (April 1998). "Baseball's Starting Lineup: High Heat Baseball". GamePro. No. 115. IDG. p. 84.
  6. ^ a b "High Heat Baseball 1999 for PC". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  7. ^ Weston, Alan. "High Heat Baseball [1999] - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  8. ^ Coffey, Robert (August 1998). "Bush League (High Heat Baseball 1999 Review)" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 169. Ziff Davis. p. 204. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  9. ^ "GAMECENTER.COM - Reviews - High Heat Baseball 1999". gamecenter.com. Archived from the original on 3 November 1999. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  10. ^ Anderson, Tom (April 1998). "High Heat Baseball 1999 Review". Game Revolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on June 13, 1998. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  11. ^ Ryan, Michael E. (April 29, 1998). "High Heat Baseball 1999 Review [date mislabeled as "May 1, 2000"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on April 28, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  12. ^ Bates, Jason (August 13, 1998). "High Heat Baseball 1999". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  13. ^ Smolka, Rob (July 1998). "High Heat Baseball [1999]". PC Gamer. Vol. 5, no. 7. Imagine Media. Archived from the original on December 12, 1999. Retrieved March 30, 2020.