Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Basic '98 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'll have to run, dive and throw the ball quickly to hope to eliminate the opponents who have managed to hit the ball. The game modes offer a classic championship, with all the real professional teams of the Japanese leagues, and a scenario mode where you take a game in progress in a given situation. There is also an indispensable training mode to improve your skills.