The Top Five 8-Bit NES Baseball Games

[swaldo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sacrafice

I could probably hook ya up with some. The scanner is on the wifes computer so I gotta wait to use hers to do it.

There's got to be a videogame museum somewhere you can submit the originals to.

[BigH2k6]

I used to love Bases Loaded II.

I thouth that the biometric readings really gave meaning to the players performance during a season(Bases Loaded II's interpretation of hot or cold streaks) and I used to love those nasty breaking balls and sliders making the CPU batters look silly

[Uncle Stumpy]

rbi was fun but i loved roger clemens baseball way more

[Eski33]

Great list. You could flip flop any of those around and still be right. I loved all of them. The games I played most were Baseball Sim 1000 and Baseball Stars.

I would put Baseball Stars ahead of them all because it was the first game to have a season mode, create-a-player / team mode and it calculated your stats after each at-bat and inning pitched. Yes, that was a big leap for games back then.

[WatchdogXC]

I played pretty much all listed but the one I played the most since it was a gift was Major League Baseball. It was mentioned in the article as having the speed not tuned right but it was fun none the less for me. It was pretty cool how you could select your lineup amongst the full roster. There were no names but they had their real stats and numbers. The Indians were actually good on it because I think it was based on the year they were picked by Sports Illustrated to win the World Series when they put Joe Carter and Corey Snyder on the cover. The neat thing too was when you chose to do an all-star game, you had your choice of every player in the league to make your lineup.

I'd like to see an article about 16 bit games as well. I really liked the early RBI Genesis games, World Series Baseball games, Tony Larussa, Triple Play, etc. Never played Ken Griffey for SNES but that has a ton of fans as well.

[swaldo]

Well I got Baseball Stars working on my hacked PSP and man that's a really fun & addicting game! When I got the hang of the controls I was excited to get the bases loaded. Then I hit one hard to 3rd base and some lady steps on the bag and throws to home for the double play. Then I struck out from an underhand softball pitch. Those ladies are cheap!

In some ways the game is so advanced (even to this day)...

1. You can move around in the box. Yes! I can move up close and hang my power hitters over the plate - challenging a pitcher to throw inside. Or if I'm expecting fastball I can move all the way to the back of the box etc. Why dont any modern games have this? If they also added some sort of penalty & injury system for hitting batters things would get interesting.

2. "Hitters Eye" - Although it's tied to audio cues. Each type of pitch has a different sound when the ball is released from the pitchers hand - nice! Some modern games have a hitters eye, but those who dont should at least do this as an option and it would be so easy to impliment. Program it so users can upload their own custom audio; and make it so a bad hitter facing a great pitcher wont hear anything. But a great hitter facing a poor pitcher will hear the cue before it's released. Sliders to adjust!

3. Check swings? Yep

4. Climb walls to rob home runs (super hard from what I hear.)

Someone please tell me defense gets easier with play

Next up: RBI baseball - get some Brain Downing baby!

[BA2929]

I'd have to add Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball on that list at #5. I loved that game, but I honestly can't argue with the Top 5 you chose. Especially Baseball Stars. That was just a great game.

[Cyphre]

Quote: Originally Posted by BA2929

I'd have to add Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball on that list at #5. I loved that game, but I honestly can't argue with the Top 5 you chose. Especially Baseball Stars. That was just a great game.

I don't remember RC MVP for NES or any other 8 bit system.....I do remember it for Genesis and SNES....I guess I missed out?!?