Interesting Ebay

[MarquisEXB]

Amiga version?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3078039067&category=3545

Arcade PCB:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3274825564&category=13718

95 version?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3078329629&category=49232

[sucka free]

Nice Finds marquis

[ericdavisfan]

Unbelievable!!!

I found an RBI vs. arcade machine on ebay yesterday.  It started at $250 with a buy it now for $450.  It was located in Decatur, IL, which meant about a 5 hour drive one way for me.  I had started the process of begging my wife and telling her how it would increase the value of our lives/home.  Unfortunately, somebody took the buy it now option and its now gone.  

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3275054958&category=13716

If you see any odd streaks on the screen, it's probably from that tear that I shed this morning at an opportunity passed  

[ultimate7]

That was a nice looking machine

[BeefMaster]

The '95 version doesn't surprise me - there were a few sequels on other platforms (mainly the SNES and Genesis) after RBI 3.  I tried out RBI '92 (I think; might've been called RBI 4 or Super RBI) on an SNES emulator, and it was horrible.  They increased the apparent size of the players in the field, meaning fielding was more guesswork and relying on radar (like Griffey on the SNES), and some other stuff was a little different as well.  I played for about an inning before becoming disgusted and quitting.

[chubbrock]

Wow.

450 bucks.

that's a f'n steal

[nightwulf]

It was located in Decatur, IL, which meant about a 5 hour drive one way for me.  

Fuck ... I live in Decatur, IL.

Nightwulf

[ericdavisfan]

Sorry, Nightwulf!

I was planning to post it in this thread yesterday, but when I looked it up again in the am...it was gone.  I was relatively sad being only 5 hours away.  That was a once in a lifetime to have it in the same city!  I wish I had just posted it when I 1st saw it now.

All apologies

[nightwulf]

S'quite alright. I don't have the money to blow on something like that, but then again this is RBI we're talking about. Think bank robbery is justified when RBI is on the line?

Nightwulf

[BeefMaster]

I was just spurred to curiosity by the Super Batter Up thread, so I decided to check out GameFaqs and see just how many RBI games there were.  It looks like there were a lot.  In chronological order (I think):

Atari RBI Baseball - Arcade
RBI Baseball - NES
RBI Baseball 2 - NES, Amiga
RBI Baseball 3 - NES, Genesis
RBI Baseball 4 - Genesis
RBI Baseball '93 - Genesis
RBI Baseball '94 - Genesis, Game Gear
RBI Baseball '95 - Sega 32X
Super RBI Baseball - Super NES

Super RBI was released in '95, so it's probably similar to the '95 Sega version.  Super RBI is the only non-NES/arcade version I've played, and I hated it.  I may, though, have to grab an emulator and check out some of the Genesis versions; I'd like to see how RBI 3 came out and whether the sequels were similar.

[Gantry]

So how does Super RBI compare to Batter Up?  Pretty strange that a game so similar to RBI was released under a different name...