History VideoGame / LivePowerfulProBaseball

* WidgetSeries: America's favorite pasttime is given an over-dramatic treatment in this cartoony franchise, with the tone of each story varying wildly, especially in the ''Pawapoke'' sister series.

The series is known for its unique character designs. They're [[SuperDeformed short, small, have a big head]], no nose, no mouth and no legs. Another feature the series is famous for is the unique [[DatingSim "Success Mode"]], which is a game mode where you create your own character, advance through a story mode, develop his baseball stats and finally get to use the character freely after you've completed the Success Mode. Two of four ''MLB Power Pros'' series are the only of series that have been translated into English from the results that Japanese baseball players were able to MLB league, thus the proper licensing and uses of the Major League Baseball elements. The rest of the series is associated with the Nippon Professional Baseball league (NPB), resulting in no localization outside Japan.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The series is filled with horrible game overs and bad endings where Pawapuro-kun is forced to give up his dream, gets fired and is forced to live on the streets or even [[SurprisingluCreepyMoment gets outright killed]].

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The series is filled with horrible game overs and bad endings where Pawapuro-kun is forced to give up his dream, gets fired and is forced to live on the streets or even [[SurpriseCreepy gets outright killed]].

* SurpriseCreepy: Chances are some of the story-related tropes here weren't what you expected from a cartoony Baseball-themed series that's always rated the equivalent of E for Everyone.

* HasTwoMommies: Three male members of the Glasses Clan raise the protagonist of ''Pawapoke 14''.

* OverprotectiveDad: Becky's father, the Major League scout.

It has appeared in two Konami crossovers, ''VideoGame/KonamiKrazyRacers'' and ''VideoGame/DreamMixTVWorldFighters''. Since 2020, with Konami entering e-Sports scene, ''[=eBaseball=]'' has been one of Konami's flagship E-Sports titles alongside ''[[VideoGame/ProEvolutionSoccer
eFootball Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer]]'' (though ''[=eBaseball=]'' does not have a PC version unlike Konami's other e-Sports titles).

It has appeared in two Konami crossovers, ''VideoGame/KonamiKrazyRacers'' and ''VideoGame/DreamMixTVWorldFighters''. Since 2020, with Konami entering e-Sports scene, ''[=eBaseball=]'' has been one of Konami's flagship E-Sports titles alongside ''[=eFootball Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer=]'' (though ''[=eBaseball=]'' does not have a PC version unlike Konami's other e-Sports titles).

* EasternRPG: Success Mode scenarios with traditional JRPG fares has been implanted in the ''Powerful Pocket'' games, in which you mainly [[TheyFightCrime fight monsters and robots]] instead of playing baseball. The ballplayer you're rewarded with after a successful run, instead, comes from in-universe HandWave.

* AnnouncerChatter: This was among Konami's "Jikkyou" (Live) sports series where voiced commentary was a selling point. The ''Pocket'' series missed out until the DS installments.

** ''Pawapoke 8'' has a ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' minigame. The game's story is loosely based on ''VideoGame/{{Snatcher}}''.

* FurryDenial: Igumori in ''Pawapoke Dash'' insists she's human but has dog ears and her dates all involve playing with her like she's one. Turns out she's really a dog who was run over by a car and then granted another chance at life as a hybrid by the Baseball God. However, it is only temporary unless she's on the winning team of a national-level competition and... [[ShootTheShaggyDog there's not enough time]]. She either dies alone and miserable or at peace depending on whether Power Pro befriends her or not.

** After clearing Cyborg Edition in ''Pawapoke 3'' thrre times you unlock a ''VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}'' minigame whre you can use your custom characters to earn more stats and skills for them. Of course, tripping on a mine means getting all your hard work scrapped forever.

* {{Eagleland}}: The final boss for ''Pawapoke 6'' is an American team whose coach wastes no time in singing his country's praises with a display of censored landmarks in the background. They're a [[DifficultySpike huge jump in difficulty]] and ''canonically [[TheBadGuyWins defeat the protagonists]]''.

* NiceHat: The Pawapuros wear their baseball caps even to their wedding ceremonies. In the ''Pocket'' games, you can tell those generic dudes apart by the letter or symbol on their cap.

* YouALLLookFamiliar: Before the MLB games, [[UpToEleven every player in the actual gameplay has only one appearance]]. You also can't change your look outside skin color. This is quickly inverted into CastOfSnowflakes since then.

*** The Mysterious Happiness Island story from ''Powerful Pro-kun Pocket 6''. After the Wakura factory becomes bankrupt, you're sent off to a concentration camp to work for a nazi-esque army that deals with arms trafficking, performs PsychoSerum experimentation on humans and terrorizes the natives of the island. You can get executed if you slack off or addicted to drugs if you depend on them to refill your health meter. The bad endings involve you turning into their lackey or otherwise allowing them to continue their operations until the island is riddled with graves. If you defeat the BB army, then the most symphatetic of their enforcers ends up sentenced to death by firing squad, though she doesn't regret it. If you had befriended her through the story, you get to see her die.

* {{Eagleland}}: The final boss for ''Pawapoke 6'' is an american team whose coach wastes no time in singing his country's praises with a display of censored landmarks in the background. They're a [[DifficultySpike huge jump in difficulty]] and ''canonically [[TheBadGuyWins defeat the protagonists]]''.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Inner Success stories in the ''Pocket'' series more often than not have nothing to do with Baseball, are set on fantasy worlds, have turn-based RPG or roguelike gameplay and use a cast of characters from previous installments.

It has appeared in two Konami crossovers, ''VideoGame/KonamiKrazyRacers'' and ''VideoGame/DreamMixTVWorldFighters''. Since 2020, with Konami entering e-Sports scene, ''[=eBaseball=]'' has been one of Konami's flagship E-Sports titles alongside ''[=eFootball Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer=]'' (though [=eBaseball=] does not have a PC version unlike Konami's other e-Sports titles).

It has appeared in two Konami crossovers, ''VideoGame/KonamiKrazyRacers'' and ''VideoGame/DreamMixTVWorldFighters''.

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* YouALLLookFamiliar: Before the MLB games, [[UpToEleven every player in the actual gameplay has only one appearance]]. You also can't change your look outside skin color. This is quickly inverted into CastOfSnowflakes since then.

* UnwinnableByMistake: There's so much that could go wrong in a playthrough. Quest lines that involve minigames, for a minor example, get harder with each minigame cleared. In ''Pawapoke 7'', do not let the block-matching game be the last, as the CPU is nigh invincible on difficulty 4.

* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 9'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 18 July 2002)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 9 Ketteiban'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 19 December 2002)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 10'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 17 July 2003)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 10 Ultra Ketteiban: 2003 Memorial'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 18 December 2003)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 11'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 15 July 2004)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 11 Ultra Ketteiban'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 16 December 2004)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 14 July 2005)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12 Ketteiban'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Nintendo Game Cube, 15 December 2005)

* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 15'' (UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, Wii, 24 July 2008)

** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 3, UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, 22 December 2011)

* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2019'' (UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, 27 June 2019), officially named ''[[Main/RecycledTitle Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball]]''. Also see ''Toys/{{amiibo}}'', as the game is packaged and compatible with a handful of amiibo cards.

* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 7'' (PlayStation 2, 6 July 2000)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2000 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, 21 December 2000)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 8'' (PlayStation 2, 30 August 2001)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 8 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, 20 December 2001)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 9'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 18 July 2002)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 9 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 19 December 2002)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 10'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 17 July 2003)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 10 Ultra Ketteiban: 2003 Memorial'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 18 December 2003)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 11'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 15 July 2004)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 11 Ultra Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 16 December 2004)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 14 July 2005)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 15 December 2005)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13'' (PlayStation 2, 13 July 2006)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, 14 December 2006)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 14'' (PlayStation 2, 19 July 2007)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 14 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 2, 20 December 2007)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 15'' (PlayStation 2, Wii, 24 July 2008)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2009'' (PlayStation 2, 19 March 2009)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, 15 July 2010)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, 14 July 2011)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, 22 December 2011)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, 19 July 2012)
** ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012 Ketteiban'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, 13 December 2012)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, 24 October 2013)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2014'' (PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, 23 October 2014)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016'' (PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, 28 April 2016)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2018'' (PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, 26 April 2018)

* ''Jikkyou Powerful Major League'' (PlayStation 2, Nintendo Game Cube, 2006)

* ''MLB Power Pros 2008'' (Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS (a butchered version of ''Pawapoke 10'', NOT a port), 2008)
* ''Jikkyou Powerful Major League 2009'' (Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, 2009)

* SequelDifficultyDrop:
** Some games in the ''Pawapoke'' series have no mandatory goals to be met at the end of each year other than not losing tournament matches. At the same time, they're the ones with some kind of mystery you must solve to keep from getting a bad and disappointing ending.
** The last few ''Pawapokes'' have the Inner Success mode unlocked from the beginning and give you two free powerful characters. ''13'' and ''14'' even let you create one character after another in a scratch card minigame.
* SequelDifficultySpike: ''Pawapoke 8'' features a protagonist who knows nothing about Baseball, so you start with very low stats. Studying Baseball is another system you have to juggle along with the others. Minigames are mandatory to progress, with the ''Contra'' run-and-gun in particular causing a Game Over if failed. Furthermore, if you fail to solve the story's goal you can get a Game Over even after you win the tournament. Unlike in ''6'', you won't even get points from finishing that way.