Kyūkai Dōchūki

Kyukai Dochuki
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Namco
Publisher(s)	Namco
Platform(s)	Arcade, Mega Drive
Release date(s)	Arcade JP: May 1990 Mega Drive JP: July 12, 1991 [1]
Genre(s)	Sports (baseball)
Mode(s)	Single-player or multiplayer (2 players can play simultaneously)
Cabinet	Upright, cabaret, and cocktail
Arcade system	Namco System 2
CPU	2x Motorola 68000 @ 12.288 MHz, 1x Motorola M6809 @ 3.072 MHz, 1x Hitachi HD63705 @ 2.048 MHz
Sound	1x Yamaha YM2151 @ 3.57958 MHz, 1x C140 @ 21.39 kHz
Display	Horizontal orientation, Raster, 288 x 224 resolution

Kyukai Dochuki (球界道中記 Kyūkai Dōchūki, lit. Baseball World Traveler's Journal) is a baseball arcade game that was released by Namco in 1990 only in Japan; it runs on Namco System 2 hardware, and is a spin-off of Yokai Dochuki (Namco's first 16-bit arcade game). The gameplay is similar to that for Namco's own World Stadium series - except that both players have a total of thirty-six different teams to choose from in the Japanese (the teams in the league are also identical to those from the Namco System 1-era WS games), Arabic, German, Humbaba, American, Russian, and Chinese leagues. The Japan League has five stadiums, and if the first player selects one team from it, it will randomly decide which one the match will take place in (it also randomly decides which of the players bats first); however, the other leagues only have one stadium (and the one of the Chinese League has a portrait of Chairman Mao over its scoreboard). This game also features a cameo re-appearance, from Valkyrie (as in no Densetsu), who appears to report the final outcome of a match once it has finished, and Namco's signature character Pac-Man can also be seen on two of the television screens in her studio wearing a purple bow tie (in his Pac-Land-style anthropomorphized form, as opposed to his "original" one).

References

1. "Release date". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2008-11-05.