Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run is a licensed arcade baseball game featuring MLB's own Ken Griffey Jr. Released in 1996, it contains all 28 MLB teams and logos from that time, with rosters containing fictitious names for the players (Ken Griffey Jr being the only real player in the game).

Next to exhibition games, there are different game modes to compete in. In the MLB Challenge, players start with a weak team and go against every major MLB club to go up the rankings. There is also a complete World Series, All-Star games and the MLB League. In the league modes up to eight players can choose a team and play a season of 26, 52 or 162 games. Between matches players can change the line-up and rotation, and trade away players.

Gameplay is fairly tradition, with fielding, pitching, batting and baserunning. Next to fastball and curveballs, there are six different pitches such as Super Fast, Screwball, Super Curve, Slider, Change Up and Knuckleball.

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Merchant	Title	Platform
	Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run	SNES
	Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run
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Mid-90's arcade fun

M M (55)

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The Press Says

The Video Game Critic	Apr 14, 2001	A-	91
GamePro	Jun, 1996	4.5 out of 5	90
Game Players	Jun, 1996	81 out of 100	81
All Game Guide	1998		80
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	May, 1996	8 out of 10	80
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	May, 1996	7 out of 10	70
Entertainment Weekly	Aug 16, 1996	C-	42

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Trivia

Winning Run in the title is named after the final play of the 1995 American League Division Series between the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees. In the 11th inning Seattle player Ken Griffey scored the winning run from the first base.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by M M (55) on Dec 20, 2007.