0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - 98 Kōshien

        

98 Kōshien is a sports game that was released exclusively in Japan and is themed around high school baseball, 98 Kōshien  was released in 1998 and was developed and published by Magical Company (also known as Mahou)

Kōshien is a 3D baseball game with different game modes including vs and story mode. The game focuses on high school baseball with over 4000 Japanese high schools included the game features different baseball strategies and tactics the game also allows the player to train the team to improve their teamwork the game also allows the player to modify the teams logo, school hymn and the teams kit.

In the 98 edition of the game the aim of the story is to win the  '98 Koshien Baseball championship

You guessed it another struggle to find review for this game so once again we head to GameFAQs for their user reviews, of which there are 9 in total with the game receiving an average user rating of 3.67/5 with the vast majority of owners giving the game a 3/5 out to a high of 4.5/5 with one person giving the game a 1.4/5 overall though it was well received the game has an average user play time of 56 hours.

This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit five online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com,  eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific but from a podcast I listen to and  I have heard they have a huge stock of older games, I will also be including Ebay.com as well

So lets get down to business with Gamedude who along with Retrogames.co.uk and eStarland.com unsurprisingly don’t stock the game so moving on to Amazon.com where the games goes by the name MAGICAL1500 series 98 Koshien (Bargain Edition), no new copies of the game are available at the time of writing this, and the used copies are limited with only eight on sale with prices starting at $32.44 for an acceptable condition copy, which is £24.97 in the UK and €27.63 in EU countries.

It would be more worthwhile to opt for a very good used copy of the game which is only 8 cents more exspensive used prices go up as high as $44.47 this comes with free shipping as do the two cheapest on offer, as is quite common there is an overpriced copy on sale coming in a $93.18.

Moving onto Ebay.com where just two copies of the game are currently on sale, one is priced at $17.00 which converts to €14.48 in EU countries or £13.09 in the UK with the most expensive copy on sale is at $25.65 this copy which ships from Japan comes with free international shipping.

Written by

P J Gibbon