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In the 1980s, Tecmo had a short-lived bunny rabbit mascot who would appear standing next to the Tecmo logo in credits sequences and title screens, as well as a rare power-up in Solomon's Key and Mighty Bomb Jack. Bad News Baseball is the only known game where he makes a physical appearance, as the umpire.
Examples of Bunny use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFwqTePDQXQ#t=2515
https://twitter.com/JohnAndersen21/status/673262816003010560
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEf6uHP4BH0#t=3
Solomon's Key/Mighty Bomb Jack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDtSgZNNYns#t=105
Bunny as the umpire in Bad News Baseball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UU_pw_jhOo#t=2634
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFwqTePDQXQ#t=2515
https://twitter.com/JohnAndersen21/status/673262816003010560
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEf6uHP4BH0#t=3
Solomon's Key/Mighty Bomb Jack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDtSgZNNYns#t=105
Bunny as the umpire in Bad News Baseball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UU_pw_jhOo#t=2634
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On the US box art for Bad News Baseball, one of the players is black. Despite this, the game does not have any skin-tone related character options, and all characters appear to be white or fair-skinned.
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In the page of the manual for Bad News Baseball that introduces the girls' team mode, it explains that the girls' mode still shows boys in the cutscenes and follows up with "sorry for letting you down".
Bad News Baseball Manual (Page 28):
https://www.gamingalexandria.com/highquality/NES/Bad%20News%20Baseball/Bad%20News%20Baseball%20-%20Manual.pdf
https://www.gamingalexandria.com/highquality/NES/Bad%20News%20Baseball/Bad%20News%20Baseball%20-%20Manual.pdf
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