How often do you play?

[Turd]

I know there was talk that a lot of people here don't really play RBI that much anymore.  I'm just curious who still does, and how often do you do it?

I'm currently doing my own "Challenge Series" where I pick one team and try and get the best record I can while attempting to beat all 29 other teams.  I play full juice mode, with every pitch I throw being in or just outside of the strike zone.  I'm not the best player in the world, so this is proving to be a challenge for sure.  I'm currently 1-4 with the Brew Crew. Yikes!

Now that my Packers are done for the year, I'm shifting focus to baseball, so I guess the Packers losing was perfect timing for me to get back into the baseball/RBI swing of things...

[Gantry]

Unfortunately I only get in games maybe 2-4 times a year, but hopefully the Chicago RBI gatherings will get some traction. 

[Turd]

You only play head to head though, right? I wish my local buddies weren't cock knockers and actually played these games a little more. How dare they grow up! I actually showed my 2 year old how to plY the other day. The little turd loves football and baseball. Can't wait to have someone to play against in 10-12 years.

[Gantry]

Yeah, only against warm bodies - the CPU bores the hell out of me. 

[Re-Peat]

Yeah, only against warm bodies - the CPU bores the hell out of me. 

I feel this way too, and relish any opportunity to play against people.

Turd, where do you live?  Brookensrules and I are in Madison, maybe we should have our own Wisconsin circuit... 

[Turd]

I prefer vs. humans too, but my friends are all wanks.  So, I play vs. juiced CPU.  Regular CPU is boring, but for me the juiced version is a challenge.  So, I do things like my 30 team challenge and it makes it interesting again.

I'm in New Berlin.  I'd love to have a Madison RBI Circuit...if you're serious, I'm down, whether it be a league, a pickup circuit online (like the TPC), an in-person tourney like the Dee-Nee Chi-town boys do, or whatever.

If enough people played and I knew it'd have interest, I'm create a full-blown website like Tecmo has for online pickup games, but methinks it wouldn't get much use...

[BeefMaster]

I actually showed my 2 year old how to plY the other day. The little turd loves football and baseball. Can't wait to have someone to play against in 10-12 years.

I've tried to get my 4-year-old to play with me, but he hasn't shown much interest - he'd rather spend his video game time on Boom Blox or Lego Star Wars, and I have a hard time getting him to play any non-Wii game with me.  I'm hopeful that after a year or two of tee-ball, he'll want a more complex baseball game than Wii Sports but not as complex as MLB Power Pros, and then I'll indoctrinate him into the ways of RBI.

I've got a buddy from college that I use to play fairly often with, but we don't see each other that much anymore.

[Turd]

I never imagined back in the day I'd be showing my kids a video game that was popular when I was less than 10 years old, and still has a following today.

[edfan]

While I admire the realistic graphics and gameplay of the new games today, I still love playing the older games much more.  I had a "class" the 1st week back from Christmas break with a few HS students where we would play NFL Blitz, NBA Live '95, RBI Baseball, Combat (atari), and Atari Football against each other.  Those are 5 of the best 2 player games that I am aware of.  The 1 player Atari games generally suck, but the 2 player games are still some of the most fun.  Atari Football gained quite a cult following around these parts during that week.  Same for Live '95.  Obviously, it is more advanced than Atari Basketball or Double Dribble, but still pretty simple in game control.  You can play once and have a good feel for the game play.

[Turd]

Gameplay > graphics, that's a theory that has all but been proven. Plus thr "free" roster updates are nice

[BeefMaster]

While I admire the realistic graphics and gameplay of the new games today, I still love playing the older games much more.  I had a "class" the 1st week back from Christmas break with a few HS students where we would play NFL Blitz, NBA Live '95, RBI Baseball, Combat (atari), and Atari Football against each other.  Those are 5 of the best 2 player games that I am aware of.  The 1 player Atari games generally suck, but the 2 player games are still some of the most fun.  Atari Football gained quite a cult following around these parts during that week.  Same for Live '95.  Obviously, it is more advanced than Atari Basketball or Double Dribble, but still pretty simple in game control.  You can play once and have a good feel for the game play.

I've never played Atari Football... I might have to grab an emulator and check that out.  That is a great list of games, though - I might have to see if I can get my Live '97 cart to work on my SNES (they didn't add the annoying level of realism until about the PlayStation 2 era).

Gameplay > graphics, that's a theory that has all but been proven. Plus thr "free" roster updates are nice

Agreed.  The greatest "realistic" football game I've ever played was Front Page Sports Football Pro '95 on the PC, which was simple enough that it used a two-button gamepad.  In addition to having a full-featured franchise mode several years before Madden, it had a play editor that as far as I know modern games still haven't really approached (multiple handoffs/pitches, unconventional formations and shifts, RB/WR passes, etc.), support for online leagues and leagues of different sizes, and excellent gameplay that produced reasonably realistic stats even when you played a whole season (I usually ended up with somewhat inflated offensive numbers just because I was quick enough picking my plays that I didn't run much time off the play clock).

[fathedX]

It's possible I've played more Atari Basketball than any other game ever.

I was watching my son play Halo 3 versus his buddy and it became obvious to me that it was merely Atari Combat but with insanely better graphics.  

To answer to original question, I have an NES in the basement hooked up to the 27" TV at all times.  I turn it on maybe once a month and play a game.  Sometimes I'll get on a kick and play several days in a row but right now I haven't played since mid-December.

[Brookensrules!]

I prefer vs. humans too, but my friends are all wanks.  So, I play vs. juiced CPU.  Regular CPU is boring, but for me the juiced version is a challenge.  So, I do things like my 30 team challenge and it makes it interesting again.

I'm in New Berlin.  I'd love to have a Madison RBI Circuit...if you're serious, I'm down, whether it be a league, a pickup circuit online (like the TPC), an in-person tourney like the Dee-Nee Chi-town boys do, or whatever.

If enough people played and I knew it'd have interest, I'm create a full-blown website like Tecmo has for online pickup games, but methinks it wouldn't get much use...

New Berlin isn't that far away, road trip to Madison?  I would host if my wife doesn't mind.  We bought a 37" LCD for Christmas and I've been itching to play someone on it.  I have a couple buddies that play one is at my level and the other is awful.  They are roommates and don't play RBI much they have a wii and I think prefer the more advance games. 

[Turd]

I'm down some weekend for ditching the wife and kids and takin' a short roadie to Mad-Town (I love Madison, btw).  I'm not the greatest, but it'd still be fun to do...I always wanted to try the RBI drinking game anyways...

My new daughter is coming end of January, so it'd probably have to be after that...nice to find local folk into retro video games...

[Gantry]

Brookens - make sure you play a game on the LCD before you have a gathering.  A lot of newer HDTVs have too much lag for RBI/NES games, I think it's pretty much unplayable on Sperling's DLP. 

[Shooty]

I got one of thos eportable NES players fro Christmas and now I play RBI while crapping instead of reading a magazine. 

[Turd]

Sweet, what model did you get, and how much was it/ I wanted to find a NES/SNES combo for cheap.  Found a few for $45...not sure on the quality...

[Shooty]

Itc called the FC Ultra II or something like that.  Its pretty decent.  The scren is small (2.5") but still playable.  Buttons are laid out well.  I think they sell for around $45-50 on ebay.   The other one thats out there, the A and B buttons are reversed which completely sucks.

[TecmoBowl Terror]

Brookens - make sure you play a game on the LCD before you have a gathering.  A lot of newer HDTVs have too much lag for RBI/NES games, I think it's pretty much unplayable on Sperling's DLP. 

The hotel TV from the International Tecmo gathering over the summer seemed to do the opposite, and the game play seemingly ran faster.  I dont recall exactly what that TV was, but Derek was up in arms claiming it was an "unsactioned TV!"  We had to be mightily careful with the kicking game to not fuck up.

I'd play a lot more RBI if it didnt completely stress out one guy(who lives 3 blocks from me), and the other didnt live an hour and some change from here.

When the weather straightens out in april, I'll be down for a weekend RBI tourney somewhere.

[fightonusc]

I definitely want to get another LA tournament together at some point. Since Vivian's here now, we probably can't use her room for a second set of games.