Okay folks... I'm curious: Is RBI the only NES baseball game that was licensed to use the MLB names? I don't recall finding any other out there that were licensed, just a curiousity question.
I thought that really shitty game, Major League Baseball, had liscence to use names and teams.
That game sucked so bad, it's hard for me to describe.
Quote from: vgp100 on 12/10/03, 03:02:59 PM
I thought that really shitty game, Major League Baseball, had liscence to use names and teams.
That game sucked so bad, it's hard for me to describe.
Major League Baseball used the players' numbers but not their names. One cool thing in that game was you could set your lineup before the game. Gameplay sucked though.
Bo Jackson appeared in Bo Jackson Baseball, but otherwise, I believe the RBI series is it for the MLBPA. As mentioned before, Major League Baseball had the team names and logos, but not the players, while RBI had the players but not the team names (they used generic city names, not team names). I think Tecmo Super Bowl was the first NES game to use both real team names and real player names (the original Tecmo Bowl used city names and made-up logos of the proper color).
There was also Legends of the Diamond (http://vimm.net/vault/NES/details.asp?file=legdiamo) which, if I remember correctly, had actual players spanning pretty much the entire history of baseball.
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Yes but being that it was legends and not current players I don't think that it required MLBPA licensing.
I used to love baseballstars because you could rename everybody to be MLB players. I even developed a rating system in which I rating players based upon their stats and then made them in the game. Ruth and McGwire were the only 15s in power hitting under my ratings system.
This is also the reason I also liked Baseball Stars, I would try to make the current Cubs roster. The only problem was that it seemed every month or so the data would be lost and it was a bummer to try to build everyone up again
That was the worst.
I used to read stat books and rate players and write out their rosters. My little brother started doing the same thing and we still have a bunch of them written out from the early 90s.
Another great old-school game to work stats and all-time teams was Tony Larussa Baseball for the PC...
I liked Hardball 4 for the PC personally. it must have been about 7 or 8 years ago when my dad brought that home to me one day for no reason. I loved making the teams have the same players as my little league team that summer. I remember I had/have a friend named Pat Gerlach on my little league team and one day before a game I told him he had 7 home runs for Hardball 4 and he was all excited. Pat's a real good guy, smokes entirely too much dope. He goes to school at Illinois College. I'm going to SIU tomorrow hopefully to see this girl I like. She smoke a lot of weed too. I might have a few beers but at this pont I'm not sure.
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Another great game is Baseball Simulator 1000. You could set your own line-ups (I put together the roster for the 1990 Oakland A's,) and the computer would save stats for individual batting and pitching along with 25 to 150 game seasons, which we thought was amazing for an 8-bit game.
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I was drunk and really tired. Sorry, it was funny at the time.
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MicroLeague Baseball for the C64. All the players & stats.
Baseball Simulator was also great because you could use wacky power-ups like the squirrel hit and the bomb hit.
you guys are all wrong, badnews baseball has 12 teams and you can work the lineups and everything, playability is through the roof, and it's almost like RBI but with diving and jumping.... please ignore the gay pink bunny umpires