Final Lap
"Kyūkai Dōchūki" is a spin-off of "Yokai Dochuki", an older Namco arcade game from 1987 that has the distinction of being the company's first 16-bit video game. The name is also a play on the title of the latter; "yakyu" is the Japanese word for baseball, which the development team thought sounded similar to the "yokai". Gameplay itself draws inspiration from Namco's "Family Stadium" franchise and its sister series "World Stadium", with large, caricature-esc players and a more comical, "super-deformed" appearance. It ran on the Namco System 2 arcade system board, which previously powered games like "Valkyrie no Densetsu", "Burning Force", and "Final Lap". A home conversion for the Mega Drive was released in Japan on July 12, 1991.