Kyūkai Dōchūki

Kyūkai Dōchūki
Promotional flyer
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)Namco
SeriesDōchūki
Platform(s)Arcade, Mega Drive
ReleaseArcade:
  • JP: May 1990
Mega Drive:
  • JP: July 12, 1991
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Kyūkai Dōchūki is a baseball arcade game that was released by Namco in 1990 in Japan; it runs on Namco System 2 hardware, and is a spin-off of Yokai Dochuki. The gameplay is similar to Namco's own World Stadium series, except that both players have a total of thirty-six different teams to choose from in the Japanese, Arabic, German, Humbaba, American, Russian, and Chinese leagues. The Japan League has five stadiums, and if the player selects one team from it, the game will randomly decide which stadium the match will take place in, but the other leagues only have one stadium. 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. Namco's signature character Pac-Man can also be seen on two of the television screens in a studio wearing a purple bow tie (in his Pac-Land-style anthropomorphized form, as opposed to his "original" one).