ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript"> <meta http-equiv="content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <meta name="Copyright" content="(c)2008 KONAMI"> <meta name="Author" content="Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd."> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"> <title>Fantasy baseball battle between the heroes of manga "Sunday VS Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine" now on sale </title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .title{font-weight:bold;font-size:20px;line-height:150%;letter-spacing:1px;} .subtitle{font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;line-height:150%;letter-spacing:1px;} .honbun{font-size:14px;line-height:150%;letter-spacing:1px;} .normal{font-size:12px;line-height:150%;} .wide{font-size:12px;line-height:250%;} .small{font-size:10px;line-height:120%;} .footer{font-size:12px;line-height:100%;color:white;} a{text-decoration:none;color:blue;} a:hover{text-decoration:underline;} body{margin:5px 0px 0px 0px;} sup{font-size:small;} strong.blue{color:#000080;} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="610"> <tr><td width="610" align="left" valign="bottom"><img src="../../img/konami.gif" alt="KONAMI" width="100" height="20" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <hr width="610"> <span class="title">Fantasy baseball battle between the heroes of manga</span><br> <span class="subtitle"><i>Sunday VS Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine</i> now on sale</span> <hr width="610"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="610"> <tr> <td align="right" class="honbun">November 26, 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"> <!--[ main ]--> <span class="honbun"> <p>Konami has released* <i>Sunday VS Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine</i>, a game in which the characters of <i>Weekly Shonen Sunday</i> (<i>Shogakukan</i>) and <i>Shukan Shonen Magazine</i> (<i>Kodansha</i>) battle it out in fantasy baseball matches.</p> <p>With popular characters fromsome 20 mangas out of both publications, dream team battles between heroes such as <i>Goro Shigeno</i> (<i>MAJOR</i>) VS <i>Eijun Sawamura</i> (<i>Diamond's Ace</i>) or <i>Tatsuya Uesugi</i> (<i>TOUCH</i>) VS <i>Mitsuru Hanagata</i> (New <i>Star of the Giants Hanagata</i>) are possible.</p> <p>Other heroes from baseball manga include <i>Hiro Kunimi</i> (<i>H2</i>), <i>Hyu-ma Hoshi</i> (<i>Star of the Giants</i>) and <i>Takeshi Kuri</i>(<i>Dreams</i>), as well as many popular heroes from non-baseball related manga such as <i>Conan Edogawa</i> (<i>Case Closed!</i>), <i>Ippo Makunouchi</i> (<i>Hajime no Ippo</i>) and <i>Bakabon's Papa</i> (<i>The Genius Bakabon</i>). This fantasy all-star baseball game was made possible by both publications collaborating to commemorate their respective 50th anniversaries.</p> </span> <table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td width="610" align="center" valign="center"><img src="img/01.jpg" width="520" height="245" alt="Fantasy baseball battle between the heroes of manga "Sunday VS Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine" now on sale"></td> </tr> </table> <p>Users will enjoy the simple controls to this realistic baseball game, which is created by utilizing the production knowhow used in the <i>Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu</i> series. In addition, the appearance of supporting characters such as <i>Minami Asakura</i> (<i>TOUCH</i>) increases the batter's abilities and manga sound effects such as "Whack" and "Bang" appear as animated text for greater comic appeal. The game also includes a "Story Mode" that allows the player to recreate famous scenes from the manga.</p> </span> <p class="normal">*Software for the Nintendo DS. Price and release dates are yet to be announced.</p> </td></tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr><td> <tr> <td><span class="honbun"><img src="../../img/arrow.gif" height="13" width="13" alt="" align="absmiddle">&nbsp;The official <i>Sunday VS Magazine Nettou! Dream Nine</i> site <a href="http://www.konami.jp/sunmaga/bb/index.html">here.</a> (Japanese only)</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="small"> <img src="img/copyright.jpg" width="610" height="45" alt="Sunday VS Magazine Nettou! 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