Mario Super Sluggers (known in Japan as Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball) is a baseball game featuring various Mario characters and a sequel to the original Mario Superstar Baseball for the Nintendo GameCube. It has notably never been released in Europe or Australia.

Story

Mario Super Sluggers
Developer	Namco
Publisher	Nintendo
System	Wii, Wii U
Release Date	Wii; JP June 19, 2008; US August 25, 2008; Wii U; US March 31, 2016; JP August 17. 2016
Genre	Sports
Gallery	GH Gallery
Rating	ESRB: E

Princess Peach has brought the gang to the Baseball Kingdom, which was specially built for everyone to play their baseball games. However, Bowser Jr. attacks with his own baseball team to take over the Baseball Kingdom and challenges Mario. Mario must put together a team from the different regions of the Baseball Kingdom to defeat Bowser Jr. and his team, and foil their plans throughout the island.

Gameplay

The main part of the game is playing baseball and not much has changed from the real sport. Players take turns batting and fielding. Three outs and the teams switch positions. The player with the most points at the end of nine innings is the winner.

There are some special features. Sweet spots let characters hit the ball farther than normal, star power lets them use special pitches, and star abilities helps them make spectacular catches. Another interesting aspect is team chemistry. If two players have good chemistry, the ball moves faster when one throws it to another. For example, the ball will move faster if Mario throws to Luigi and slower if he throws to Bowser.

The game remains unchanged for the most part but features new characters and fields to play. New additions include more interactivity with the stadiums, the possibility of using Miis as playable characters and a new interface that that takes advantage of the Wii control.

Characters

Character Information in Mario Super Sluggers

Captains

Sub-Captains

Players

Monty Mole	Toadsworth	Baby Mario	Petey Piranha	Dixie Kong	White Dry Bones
Blue Pianta	Toadette	Baby Luigi	Boo	Goomba	Green Dry Bones
Red Pianta	Red Toad	Red Shy Guy	King Boo	Paragoomba	Red Dry Bones
Yellow Pianta	Blue Toad	Blue Shy Guy	Blue Magikoopa	Green Koopa Troopa	Blue Dry Bones
Blue Noki	Green Toad	Yellow Shy Guy	Red Magikoopa	Red Koopa Troopa	Hammer Bro.
Green Noki	Yellow Toad	Green Shy Guy	Yellow Magikoopa	Red Paratroopa	Boomerang Bro.
Red Noki	Purple Toad	Black Shy Guy	Green Magikoopa	Green Paratroopa	Fire Bro.
Red Yoshi	Light Blue Yoshi	Blue Kritter	Baby Peach	Blooper	Dixie Kong
Blue Yoshi	Pink Yoshi	Red Kritter	Baby Daisy	Wiggler	Tiny Kong
Yellow Yoshi	Green Kritter	Brown Kritter	Baby DK	King K. Rool	Funky Kong

Miis are also playable but cannot appear in Story Mode.

Legacy

Though this would be the last Mario baseball game for the time being, baseball would later be one of the sports featured in Mario Sports Superstars, which was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2017.

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In 2016, it was released as a downloadable purchase on the Wii U's eShop. This release also excluded Europe and Australia.

Mario Super Sluggers

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