2014 World Series - Game 7 - RBI Style

[Turd]

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24785028/video-game-7-world-series-conclusion-in-rbi-baseball-form

Also, through the comments on that forum, I ended up having an email conversation with Peter Lipson (the guy who made the original RBI Arcade and NES game)! He told me about how he picked teams for the RBI Arcade game as well as some other fascinating shit.

[BeefMaster]

Also, through the comments on that forum, I ended up having an email conversation with Peter Lipson (the guy who made the original RBI Arcade and NES game)! He told me about how he picked teams for the RBI Arcade game as well as some other fascinating shit.

TELL US MORE.

[Turd]

I'll post the emails when I get to a computer

[Turd]

I asked if I could post his reply, but the jist of it is that they didn't want to pay the license fee when they did the US version of the arcade game, so he pulled out the baseball almanac and created a bunch of all-star teams.  The picked the teams with regards to trying to appeal to regions all around the country.  Fortunately the Astros were in the playoffs that year and they didn't have a lot of all-stars on their roster, but being in the playoffs helped to justify their inclusion.  He said he selected the team members and tried to figure out what kind of pitches certain players would throw (Carl Hubbell, for ex.).  Then he spent a week at Namco in Tokyo helping them convert the game.  Later on he did the same thing with the NES version, though of course they did end up paying for the license there.

[Gantry]

That explains the very curious inclusion of Houston into arcade.  I emailed with Peter many moons ago, wonder if I still have them somewhere.  Nice guy..

[ultimate7]

So they didn't have to pay licensing fees just because they used retired players instead of current teams?

[Turd]

Correct, NFL 2 K-series did this with their football games.

[Gantry]

So there wasn't a single active player in Arcade RBI?  Never knew that

[ultimate7]

There were plenty of active players, probably about 3 or 4 per team on average

[edfan]

Yeah...McGwire is on the A's and is listed with 62 homers.  Ironic that he became the one to break Roger Maris' record down the road

[edfan]

I know that Mattingly, Jackson, and Winfield are all on the Yankees and were active at the time the game was made too

[Turd]

I think the point is that they were veiled in a pool of inactive players so it probably didn't raise as many flags as it would have today.

Maybe not, but this is just what he told me.