Virtual League Baseball

Virtual League Baseball is a 1995 baseball video game developed and published by Kemco for the Virtual Boy. A sequel, Virtual League Baseball 2, was planned, but later canceled due to the Virtual Boy console's poor sales.

There are three modes of play in Virtual League Baseball: Player 1 vs. computer, all star game, and pennant race. In player 1 vs. computer, one single match is played between the player and the computer. In the all star game, the player plays against the computer using a team of all stars from America, Asia, or Europe. In the pennant race, the player plays a series of games against the computer, using passwords to resume play after turning off the console, instead of saving. It is a single player game. Players can receive and enter passwords to skip levels of the game. The game's teams are international. Promotion for the game was further hurt by its infamous "chili dog farts" print advertisement which was centered on a photo of two obese men exposing their butt cracks. Like all other Virtual Boy games, Virtual League Baseball uses a red and black color scheme and uses stereoscopy, an optical trick that is used to simulate a 3D effect. A sequel, Virtual League Baseball 2, was in development, but was never released, despite receiving an ESRB rating.

Nintendo Power praised the game's graphics and "realistic baseball experience", but wrote that it was hard to defend near the fence. One of the magazine's six reviewers recommended the game. Scott Alan Marriott of AllGame found the game reminiscent of Major League Baseball for the Nintendo Entertainment System, noting "plinky sound effects, only one stadium, all fielders moving in unison with the control pad (including the infield and outfield! ), a batting and pitching interface that relies on one button, and base runners who move at the speed of light. Are these features you want in a 1995 release? Certainly not, especially on a system that's supposed to deliver a 'virtual' experience."