Randomly Post The First RBI Baseball-Related Thing That Pops Into Your Head

[Gantry]

Still remember the time I ate a stick of gum from a pack of 83 Topps in the early-to-mid 90s.  Was very dry.  Also remember I got a fkn Tony Gwynn rookie in said pack, I was amazed since I just assumed all convention dealers were crooked and pre-inspected all of them. 

[fknmclane]

Played Saturday night with my cop friend. He got one of the mini NES for his birthday last week though it seems different than the other I played on recently. Different menu and games. The controllers were SNES style, too, which really cramped my style and caused a bunch of misplays in the field. There's probably a dozen different versions of these things, who knows.

I selected St. Louis and he took the Tigers. Much closer than it needed to be but threw a CG with Tudor and won 15-12.

Then the kids started playing Mario and I mentioned I could beat it in a few minutes so they immediately gave me the controller and I zipped right through it, with all the kids (they have four too) hooting and hollering and generally going nuts because they had never seen it done. Running under Bowser and saving the Princess was a very exciting moment.

[TempoGL]

If it had RBI, 100% chance that it was bootleg

[Man of Steal]

If it had RBI, 100% chance that it was bootleg

I can confirm. Tecmo yes, RBI no

[fknmclane]

If it had RBI, 100% chance that it was bootleg

Thank goodness for bootleggers

[nomaaa]

Then the kids started playing Mario and I mentioned I could beat it in a few minutes so they immediately gave me the controller and I zipped right through it, with all the kids (they have four too) hooting and hollering and generally going nuts because they had never seen it done. Running under Bowser and saving the Princess was a very exciting moment.

this part is so awesome.

[BeefMaster]

Played Saturday night with my cop friend. He got one of the mini NES for his birthday last week though it seems different than the other I played on recently. Different menu and games. The controllers were SNES style, too, which really cramped my style and caused a bunch of misplays in the field. There's probably a dozen different versions of these things, who knows.

Definitely a bootleg, but still pretty cool.  My brother has a pretty cool version of this - he got a Raspberry Pi with the "RetroPi" operating system, basically a controller-friendly front end with a bunch of pre-loaded emulators, which he then loaded up with a bunch of ROMs.  He bought some SNES-style controllers to go with it and packed the actual system into an old NES cartridge, with the ports (2 or 3 USB and an HDMI) at the end of the cartridge that you'd plug into the NES.  It's terrific.

Then the kids started playing Mario and I mentioned I could beat it in a few minutes so they immediately gave me the controller and I zipped right through it, with all the kids (they have four too) hooting and hollering and generally going nuts because they had never seen it done. Running under Bowser and saving the Princess was a very exciting moment.

this part is so awesome.

Yes, it is.

[fknmclane]

When I warped at 4-2 the boys' heads just about exploded.

[BeefMaster]

How many lives did it take you?  Not sure I've done it in one life in quite a while - I quite often die a couple times in 8-2 (which you can basically try forever because of the 1up), and I sometimes commit seppuku in 8-3 until I can make sure I get to the last castle with the fire flower, because otherwise that stupid hammer bro at the very end of the castle is a BITCH to make it past.

[fknmclane]

Two lives.

I ate shit once in 8-1. It was terribly fucking disappointing because despite the controller being a little different, I was absolute on fucking fire up to that point.
Lost fireballs on the hammer bros in 8-3 and finished up small.

[nomaaa]

tbh, i think thats probably the best way it couldve went down. if you absolutely pwned it, the kids might jot appreciate how dope it was

[Gantry]

No way I'd get through level 8 without quite a bit of practice, nor do I have the 8-4 route memorized...

[BeefMaster]

No way I'd get through level 8 without quite a bit of practice, nor do I have the 8-4 route memorized...

It's always the pipe immediately after a lava pool (other than in the water, when there's only one exit pipe).

[Reds]

Beefy.  You just blew my fucking mind. 

[Gantry]

Don't I also blow your mind?

[Gantry]

DON'T I?!?!?!

[Reds]

No.

[fknmclane]

Beefy.  You just blew my fucking mind. 

Mine too. Holy shit.

[nomaaa]

dude beef. tf

[BeefMaster]

I can't determine whether you guys are mocking me for pointing out that the water level doesn't have lava or if you're actually that amazed by my skills in pattern recognition.