also known as ''Pro Yakyū: Family Stadium'' and ''Famista'', is a series of
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
sports video games
A sports video game is a video game that simulates the practice of sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including team sports, track and field, extreme sports, and combat sports. Some games emphasize actually playing the sport (s ...
initially developed and released by
Namco
was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, ...
in Japan, and later developed and published by
Bandai Namco Entertainment. The first entry in the series, ''
Pro Baseball: Family Stadium'', was released for the Nintendo
Family Computer
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit Third generation of video game consoles, third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redes ...
in 1986 and later in North America as ''
R.B.I. Baseball'' (subsequent games in this series would see various names used when exported to North America but none after 1992), with the series being released on numerous home consoles, the latest being ''Pro Yakyuu Famista 2020'' in 2020 for the
Nintendo Switch. The series is considered a precursor to Namco's own ''
World Stadium'' series of baseball games, released for arcades,
PlayStation and
GameCube. The series has been a commercial success since, with over 15 million copies being sold as of 2016.
In April 1993, ''
Famicom Tsūshin
formerly ''Famicom Tsūshin'', is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa. ''Famitsu'' is published in both weekly and monthly formats as well as in the f ...
'' (''Famitsu'') magazine awarded ''Family Stadium'' a world record for being the
video game franchise with the most published video game releases, with fourteen video games published for the series up until then.
List of games
See also
*''
World Stadium''
*''
Great Sluggers''
Notes
References
External links
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