The strike-ball-out counter is used like in a real Japanese baseball match.

While the game takes place in fictitious Hect Stadium, the action is very close to watching an actual professional baseball match.

There is a lot of information for batters and pitchers to digest like pitching tendencies, earned run averages, batting averages, and even the current wind levels.

Players can choose to pitch either inside or outside the strike zone by moving the ball across a series of two boxes.

Unlike North America where the keys were assigned letters, the four major buttons on the Japanese game controller were assigned colors (as it was easier for Japanese users to memorize colors instead of the Latin letters A, B, X, and Y).