Capcom Baseball - RBI Ripoff

[Gantry]

Wow, the folks at Capcom really liked RBI Baseball.  Just played this game Capcom Baseball on MAME, it was a Japanese arcade game.  This isn't like Super Batter Up where the original company was involved, Capcom pretty much took much of the original RBI and modernized it...

The batting scenes, fielding, time outs, scoreboard between and even BOPs are very similar to RBI.  Still a fun game though, which makes sense given it's roots.  I've attached the game to this post, give it a whirl.  You have to use MAME to play, let me know if you have any questions getting it going...

[BeefMaster]

Impressive - it's not as similar as Super Batter Up, as you said, but it is pretty close.  I had the good fortune of the computer making a BOP on the first play of the game (RF dropped a fly ball), so I even got to see that.

Really, it doesn't surprise me too much that the game's similar.  Up until the days of the SNES, when people started to experiment a bit, most baseball games played the same (the Bases Loaded series was the main exception).  RBI, Baseball Stars, Little League Baseball, and Baseball Simulator 1.000 all had identical control schemes, although the latter three added diving and leaping for balls, and Baseball Simulator's graphics were even mildly similar.

[Gantry]

Good points Beef, but this game really takes the cake for ripoffs.  Most of the other games you mentioned have a distinctive level of uniqueness to them.  This game pretty much copied the standard look/feel of RBI while adding nothing.  It obviously improves in the graphics department, but outside of that it's a pretty version of RBI...

Super Batter Up can be forgiven because it was put out by a company that had ties to Tengen, but Capcom Baseball has no such ties that I know of...