Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu '96 Kaimakuban is a baseball game, where the friendly "Pawapuro", those little pudgy baseball players that you can find in all the episodes, are featured. The gameplay is classic but very precise. In attack, you have to position yourself and have a demon timing to manage to place a good bat. A rectangle is displayed in front of the batter delimiting the zone in which the pitcher can place the ball without it being at fault, and a small square, like a viewfinder, shows where you are going to hit. At the top of the screen, a "mirror" view shows our batter in front and, behind him, the catcher of the opposing team: you have to observe where the latter places his glove to have an idea of where the pitcher is going to throw. On defense, you will have to run, dive and quickly throw the ball back to hope to eliminate the opponents who have managed to hit the ball. The game modes are the same as in the other series, but a new mode has been added: the "success" mode. The idea is to create a "Pawapuro" and guide him during his first years as a baseball player.