Gameboy Baseball

[Gantry]

Just watched the Gaming Historian's coverage of the Marioland series (which I knew nothing about never having a gameboy) and saw this screenshot for the Gameboy Baseball game.   It's at 4:25 in the video if you want to see.  Batting looks different but fielding looks pretty darn close to RBI.  Was Tengen involved in this?

[nomaaa]

looks pretty neat.

loved all my gameboys, still have my lime green gbc. marioland was my jam back in the day with all the final fantasy jawns that led the way to pokémon for gb

[TempoGL]

That game is garbage.  There are only two teams, and the fielding experience is awful.  There's only like 15 or so ways that the ball can be hit.  For example, if it's a popup to short, there's at maximum two different types of popups that will be hit.  The ball goes to the same places over and over and over again.

[Gantry]

Did it have anything to do with Tengen or did they just steal the fielding look and feel?

[TempoGL]

Did it have anything to do with Tengen or did they just steal the fielding look and feel?

Since Tengen had taken to making unlicensed games a couple of years before this game came out, I have a feel it's just robbery of the look and feel.

[BeefMaster]

Whoa... that looks like basically the exact same sprites.

[Gantry]

Did it have anything to do with Tengen or did they just steal the fielding look and feel?

Since Tengen had taken to making unlicensed games a couple of years before this game came out, I have a feel it's just robbery of the look and feel.

Ah yeah, good call...  Unless it was involved with Namco or whoever originally did Family Stadium

[Gantry]

Some similar sound effects too when fielding:



Says Nintendo on the title screen but I wouldn't be surprised if Namco had a hand in development. 

[Gantry]

Interestingly this writeup on Game Boy baseball:

https://www.gameboyworks.com/1989/04/21/baseball-2/

Says that the Family Stadium  / RBI were the copiers, as the original NES baseball might have inspired though.  That true?  I don't even remember NES Baseball, just that it was awful

[Gantry]

Also says Nintendo's R&D 1 were the developers, the same people who designed the Game Boy.  So that removes any chance of Namco/Tengen being involved.

[Gantry]

This site certainly shares Tempo's disdain for the game:

[Gantry]

Also says Nintendo's R&D 1 were the developers, the same people who designed the Game Boy.  So that removes any chance of Namco/Tengen being involved.

Co developers, the video above says Intelligent Systems also designed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Systems

Who were basically part of Nintendo as well. 

[Brookensrules!]

Got this game as a birthday present from a couple friends.  It wasn't that bad but what sucked was the game itself took a long time to play, very slow game.  Not what you want out of a portable gaming system. 

[nomaaa]

tennis wasn't bad, but i can't remember too many sports series games that were fun to play

[Slims]

Rbi had a proper port on gb

[Gantry]

Whoa, great find Slims.   Lots of fun nuggets there, has anyone played World Stadium on TG16?  True RBI style in 16 bit...

[Slims]

Whoa, great find Slims.   Lots of fun nuggets there, has anyone played World Stadium on TG16?  True RBI style in 16 bit...

Never knew about the tg16 version. Going to fire up my everdrive tho and check it out