The Top Five 8-Bit NES Baseball Games

[cjnoles9399]

This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats. I was Jersey. I would love to go back and see those stats!

RBI stood the test of time for me. A lot of my friends in college (in the early 2000's) knew how to play that game with "dirty pitching" yet good house rules so the games were realistic and tight. We had some great double elim tournaments.

[travis72]

Quote: Originally Posted by cjnoles9399

This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats. I was Jersey. I would love to go back and see those stats! RBI stood the test of time for me. A lot of my friends in college (in the early 2000's) knew how to play that game with "dirty pitching" yet good house rules so the games were realistic and tight. We had some great double elim tournaments.

I did the same thing back in the day. I had notebooks galore with stat tracking. I guess I am not the only stat geek as family and friends thought I was nuts doing this. I use to even write up little aritcles about the games,lol

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by cjnoles9399

This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats

Off-Topic, but I used to keep a notebook to keep track of Tecmo Super Bowl injuries (since there was no record of the length of the injury in the game). So I know where you're coming from.

[bukktown]

I remember playing RBi baseball with my dad and he said that if I beat him he would buy me a pack of 87 fleer baseball cards. He lost and then he said double or nothing. I kept beating him double or nothing. It got to a point where he owed me like 2048 packs when I realized he was never gonna pay up lol

[pietasterp]

Quote: Originally Posted by travis72

I did the same thing back in the day. I had notebooks galore with stat tracking. I guess I am not the only stat geek as family and friends thought I was nuts doing this. I use to even write up little aritcles about the games,lol

Quote: Originally Posted by bukktown

I remember playing RBi baseball with my dad and he said that if I beat him he would buy me a pack of 87 fleer baseball cards. He lost and then he said double or nothing. I kept beating him double or nothing. It got to a point where he owed me like 2048 packs when I realized he was never gonna pay up lol

I'm sorry, these 2 posts had me laughing harder than I have laughed in a long time...writing up little articles about the games!!!?? That is classic. Such a little kid thing to do. And my pop also owes me so much stuff from bets back in the day, at this point the interest alone would bury him...

It's funny how these 8-bit games are cultural touchstones for people of a certain age - and it's actually kind of a narrow range, because anything older and they weren't into video games, and any younger and they were of the "next gen" SNES/Genesis age. There's a slice of us that were bred on 8-bit NES for whom some of this stuff is just classic. I guess it all boils down to good childhood memories, but I just eat this stuff up now....does that make me old?

[Cyphre]

Quote: Originally Posted by M11x

Baseball Stars was a gem but Baseball Stars 2 was a disappointment.

I felt the same way....in my case I thought BS2 had NO improvements over the original. In fact, the took out some features and teams/players that made BS1 such a great game. Still, if I had to pick only one baseball game from the 8-bit era....NO DOUBT or HESITATION........ SNK BASEBALL STARS it is!!

[Cyphre]

Quote: Originally Posted by pietasterp

It's funny how these 8-bit games are cultural touchstones for people of a certain age - and it's actually kind of a narrow range, because anything older and they weren't into video games, and any younger and they were of the "next gen" SNES/Genesis age. There's a slice of us that were bred on 8-bit NES for whom some of this stuff is just classic. I guess it all boils down to good childhood memories, but I just eat this stuff up now....does that make me old?

Ahh, so true. The only thing missing back then would have been online gaming. Imagine Baseball Stars league online, or a Tecmo Bowl tournament online, or teaming up with a buddy in Double Dragon, how about getting 3 buddies and playing TMNT: Turtles in Time at the peak of their popularity.

I still play all these 8 Bit games on emulators for all of my current systems, most of them at work on my Droid.....I have a NES, SNES, Genesis and Turbo Graphx 16 emulators on that puppy with tons of games (american and jap).

Then I bought a game pad for it that goes over the keyboard on ebay.......the best accessory I have gotten for the droid.......my phone is now a time killer at the doctors office......Galaga anyone???

[Sacrafice]

^ You can roll with these games online today. Tecmo is a pretty popular game today for leagues.

Quote: Originally Posted by cjnoles9399

This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats. I was Jersey. I would love to go back and see those stats! RBI stood the test of time for me. A lot of my friends in college (in the early 2000's) knew how to play that game with "dirty pitching" yet good house rules so the games were realistic and tight. We had some great double elim tournaments.

Quote: Originally Posted by travis72

I did the same thing back in the day. I had notebooks galore with stat tracking. I guess I am not the only stat geek as family and friends thought I was nuts doing this. I use to even write up little aritcles about the games,lol

I still have all my note books of my gaming through out the years from Real Sports series on the Atari up until a few years ago when I started putting everything on my PC. My wife wants to throw the stuff away, but hell's no it ain't gonna happen lol... They all sit in an old school filing cabenet wating for me to revisit them.


I would just move RBI Baseball to #4 and give Base Ball Stars, Baseball Simulator and Bases Loaded a tie for #1. I played Simulator more and outside of Tecmo Bowls is up there for most hours played. That game is/was the only non-simulation game that I have ever played, yet you could go simulation. Had the option for both and was perfect.

Baseball Stars was the 2nd best sports game on the NES, but baseball is just not as entertaining as football. If it had the MLB license it would top Tecmo Bowl as the best sports game on the NES.