The Top Five 8-Bit NES Baseball Games

[joemoedee]

Warning, long reply ahead.

Baseball Stars is by and large my number 1 on this list, and probably on any list of favorite games.

My Dad and I would play it for hours. He became obsessed with it. We had one created team that had a bunch of scrubs with 15 in prestige. Playing them 2P, while exploiting the 10 run rule, you could rack up a decent amount of money. My Dad did this over and over again, until every player on his team was fully maxed out. (Those guys were what, 999,999,999 to buy? I still cannot fathom how many hours he put into the game to make that happen)

The saddest video game experience was one day after school, popping in Baseball Stars, the power flashing, and it wiping the save clean. I probably even cried some that day. No game has ever come close to Baseball Stars, and I'm beginning to think nothing else will.

Notes to newbies playing it, there's a few tricks to getting a fairly powerful new team.

Go to the team creation menu, and arrow -> Down, Right, Left, Down, Down, Right, Up. It should present you with the following team name: "When isn't it?"-- Type in "When it is.". You'll then be able to name your team, and your players will be pretty decent. (With the period, and yes, it's engrained into my brain like the Konami code)

For a powerful all girl team - > Down, Right, Left, Down, Down, Right, Up, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up. This time the team name will be "What is a wren?". Type in "A Bird." then it will say "When isn't it?" type in "When it Is.".

Another trick to get maxed out pitchers. Sign Free Agent pitchers that have low Prestige. Max out all you can on the Pitching part, except Prestige. Then flip over to the Hitting portion. You can then add Prestige points to there. If you can max it out at 15, they become All Star players.

The 10 run exploit is, once a team is up by 10, the game is over. Create a team, and fill out all of their prestige points. Do a 2P game, your team versus the scrubs. Make your team the home team. Get them out easily in the top half of the first, then in the bottom half, just keep plunking your good team. Once you get to 10 runs, the game is over. Collect your money, repeat as necessary.

Baseball Stars 2 was easily the most disappointing game ever to me, and I played some terrible games.

MLB baseball wasn't terrible, but not nearly worth the mention with some of the other titles listed. I do remember one day while home from school sick I played an all star game with it. I believe I was up by like 73 or something, and it kept trying to replace the pitcher. However, the logic wouldn't allow it to replace the pitcher with anyone but someone from the Atlanta Braves, and it ran out. It kept trying to replace the pitcher, and ended up in an infinite loop of fail.

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If you want to go down memory lane and don't have your old NES check this site out. The button scheme is weird but it's fun anyway.

http://nintendo8.com/genre/sports/

[Mr5000]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cyphre

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?!?

It was on the NES as well. I remember renting it from Blockbuster video.

[Cyphre]

You know ....the other day I was playing Bases Loaded and realized some of the batters had different batting stances than I remembered and I was talking to my brother about it and he reminded me that we played both US and Japan versions of the game......so I DL'd the Japanese version (Moero! Pro Yakyu {black}) and realized they did have different batting stances and models.....in the Japanese version Paste looks more like a slugger.....such memories.

[JustinSainn]

I'd have to put Bases Loaded II at the top of my list because of one feature it had that no other game has ever really done and that is the biorhythms. Other games have come up with similar ideas but nothing as straight forward as that. Plus, for it's day the game played a great game of ball. I remember having tournaments on it, me, my dad and my dad's friend. Of course, me being younger and having quicker reactions I kicked their asses routinely. Now being older myself, I realize what they were going through. lol

Baseball Stars was cool in a way but the fielding was a big drawback for me. The fact that you couldn't make a throw from third to first without bouncing it drove me nuts.