Finishing what Tengen started...THE ARCADE GAME!

[Turd]

With the success of the 1987 ROM, anyone want to do the same sort of project for the Arcade version? Best players in history for each team...might be kind of cool...

[TβG]

we would first need to agree on criteria for what teams guys play on.  don baylor, for example, is a tough call.  and do you want to include active players?  i believe the original did include active players.

[Turd]

Yep...I don't even care how it goes, we can discuss all that. I just thought it would round out the set of cool community ROMs we have.  If we can agree on some of those things, I'll setup the editor for it.

I just thought I'd dangle it out there to see what kind of interest there would be in this.  My 2010 ROM will soon become official, so I won't be tweaking that so often.

[TβG]

you like to tweak, don'tcha?  are you sure you're not from iowa instead wisconsin?

[BeefMaster]

I could throw a Twins/Senators roster together in a matter of minutes.  Hell, here's a rough draft:

Starting lineup:
Carew 2B
Mauer C
Puckett CF
Killebrew 3B
Hrbek 1B
Goslin LF
Oliva RF
Cronin SS

Bench (Morneau is a given, then pick three):
Morneau
Rice
Sievers
Gaetti
Hunter
Yost
Knoblauch

Johnson
Blyleven/Santana
Aguilera (Firpo Marberry would also be good here for a more retro flavor)
Nathan

[Nacho]

Cardinals

Starting lineup:
Brock CF
Hornsby 2B
Pujols 1B
Musial LF
Medwick RF
Boyer 3B
Simmons C
Smith SS

Bench:
McGwire
Mize
Edmonds
Slaughter

Pitchers:
Gibson
Dean
L. Smith
Sutter

[Big Hath]

Braves

Starters:
A Jones OF
Murphy OF
Mathews 3B
Aaron OF
McGriff 1B
Johnson 2B
Lopez C
Blauser SS

Bench:
C Jones
Adcock
Justice
Torre

Pitchers:
Spahn
Maddux
Garber
Smoltz

[Nacho]

I'll even speculate on some of the specs for the Cards team:

Player:           CNT   PWR    SPD
Brock              20     800    148
Hornsby          9       900    130
Pujols              8      950     128
Musial             6       880    122
Medwick          8       810    122
Boyer              17     850    128
Simmons         10    830     120
Smith              15    735     144

McGwire           18    942     126
Mize                 8      930     120
Edmonds          25    870     126
Slaughter         15    800     124

[BeefMaster]

Off the top of my head, here's an attempt at the Yankees (and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone):

Jeter SS
Mantle CF
Ruth RF
Gehrig 1B
DiMaggio LF (yeah, he was a CF, but this makes for a better lineup)
Berra C
Nettles 3B
Lazzeri 2B

Mattingly
Posada
BWilliams
Winfield

WFord
Gomez
Gossage
Rivera

[Shooty]

Blue Jays:

Tony Fernandez SS
Roberto Alomar 2B
Carlos Delgado 1B
George Bell OF
Joe Carter OF
Jesse Barfield OF
Ernie Whitt C
Kelly Gruber 3B

Bench:
Lloyd Moseby OF
John Mayberry 1B
Rance Mullinicks IF
Vernon Wells OF

Pitching
SP Roy Halladay
SP Dave Stieb
RP BJ Ryan
RP Tom Henke

[TβG]

Just a guess without looking at career totals

Angels:

Erstad CF
Fregosi SS
GAnderson LF (Downing)
Salmon RF
DeCinces 3B (Glaus)
Grich 2B
1B   (Joyner, Carew, KMorales)
C (Boone, BMolina)

Bench:
Downing (LF, DH, C)
Figgins Util
DiSarcina SS
Hudler Util

Pitchers:
Witt (DChance, Lackey)
Finley (Tanana, NRyan)
Shields
Percival (FRodriguez)

[BeefMaster]

Draft Twins ratings (just guidelines for pitchers):
Starting lineup (CT PWR SPD):
Carew 6 789 143
Mauer 6 833 128
Puckett 8 845 134
Killebrew 22 934 124
Hrbek 21 888 120
Goslin 7 822 128
Oliva 10 867 126
Cronin 14 802 126

Bench
Morneau 18 881 122
Rice 11 770 142
Sievers 23 879 124
Hunter 27 859 138

Johnson - should be awesome, as he is often regarded as the best pitcher ever
Santana - maybe a high differential in speeds, to reflect his great change-up?
Aguilera - unremarkable, basically a solid closer but nothing special
Nathan - good "normal" velocity to reflect excellent slider

[Turd]

Cripes, wasn't expecting this much of a response...I'll be "off" for tonight and tomorrow night, but when I'm back in business, I'll setup the editor.  Those who are still interested can hop on and edit away...

[ryno]

Cubs

OF Neifi Perez
IF  Neifi Perez
OF Neifi Perez
IF  Neifi Perez
C   Neifi Perez
OF Neifi Perez
IF  Neifi Perez
IF  Neifi Perez

B   Neifi Perez
B   Neifi Perez
B   Neifi Perez
B   Neifi Perez

SP  Neifi Perez
SP  Neifi Perez
RP  Neifi Perez
RP  Neifi Perez

[ryno]

try again?

2B  Ryne Sandberg   1990, 1992, or 1984
1B  Derrek Lee  2005
OF  Sammy Sosa  2001
OF Hack Wilson 1930
3B  Ron Santo  1966
OF  Billy Williams 1972
SS  Ernie Banks 1958
C  Gabby Hartnett 1930

OF  Andre Dawson  1987
OF  Aramis Ramirez  2004
1B  Mark Grace  1995
OF Hank Sauer 1952


SP  Fergie Jenkins 1971
SP  3 Finger Brown 1906
RP  Lee Smith 1983
RP  Bruce Sutter 1977



I tried to stray from really really old players, but had to include 3 Finger Brown.

[Big Hath]

shocker

[Gantry]

We come with a standard criteria, best individual season or career?  I say best individual season and make it a slugfest - whatever team you have the best year gets em

[ryno]

i like the best year idea as well

[ICPjuggla]

The Athletics

C Terry Steinbach 1986-96
1B Mark McGwire 1986-97
2B Mark Ellis 2002-present
SS Bert "Campy" Campaneris 1968-76
3B Carney Lansford 1983-92
OF Rickey Henderson 1979-84, 1989-95, 1998
OF Reggie Jackson 1968-75, 1987
OF Joe Rudi 1968-76, 1982

DH
Dave Kingman 1984-86
Jimmie Foxx 1920-1935
Jose Canseco  1985-1992
Bob Johnson 1933-1942 or Eric Chavez 1998-present
   
P Jim "Catfish" Hunter 1968-74
P Vida Blue 1969-77
P Dave Stewart 1986-92, 1995
Closer
Dennis Eckersley 1987-95

[AlecTrevylan006]

My friend and I were thinking about this a bit, I'd change up Sox and Yankees too...

RED SOX
Starters
SS: Garciaparra - R
3B: Boggs - L
OF: Williams - L
1B: Foxx - R
OF: Yaz - L
OF: Speaker - L
C: Fisk - R
2B: Doerr - R

Bench:
Ramirez - R
Cronin - R
Lynn - L
Rice - R

Rotation:
Pedro Martinez - R
Lefty Grove – L
Roger Clemens - R
Smokey Joe Wood - R (I guess you can put in Cy Young if you must)
CLOSER: Papelbon - R

YANKEES
Starting lineup
SS: Jeter - R
OF: DiMaggio - R
OF: Ruth - L
1B: Gehrig - L
3B: Rodriguez - R
OF: Mantle - R
C: Berra - L
2B: Lazzeri - R

Bench:
R. Jackson - L
Winfield - R
Dickey - R
Maris - L

Rotation:
Ford - L
Guidry - L
Ruffing - R
Hoyt - R
CLOSER - Mo Rivera - R