History of RBI

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Welcome openwindow!  I love it when a lurker comes out of the shadows...  

Good to know about Roger Clemens, so the only two NES games with MLBPA licenses are RBI & Legends of the Diamonds?  Did Legends have any active players?  If not, I wonder if it is a different license...

Thanks for the welcome.

Had to chime back in since I have a copy of Legends of the Diamond lying around the house. Don't have the manual but I do have the box, and on the box it makes no mention of being licensed by either the MLB or the MLBPA... I wonder if they just negotiated the rights to each player or if they just went ahead and did it. I'm going to guess the latter, just because it doesn't seem like a lot of things were done with licensing then. Probably why we never saw a sequel either. That game was pretty fun.

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Wow, I had no idea

"Instead of the long season found in previous Bases Loaded games, Bases Loaded 3 has a unique system. Based on your quality of play, you are ranked on a scale of one to five. Your ultimate goal is to be good enough to defeat a level five team. To do that, you'll have to play at the same level as Ryne Sandberg. No one said this was going to be easy."

Has anyone here played this game?  Is it any good?  I kind of like the bases loaded series, the hittting was tough to get used to, but beaning the batter and charging the mound was pretty cool.

I had a friend who had Bases Loaded 3 (Ryno was on the label, although he wasn't actually in the game at all), and I managed to win it a couple of times.  The hitting was pretty much the same as the original, but they changed the fielding for that one, staying with a "behind-the-fielders" perspective after the ball was hit.  The graphics style and perspective reminded me of an upside-down Baseball Stars (camera closer to the players than RBI).  It also had a team editor, although you could only change one team, and it didn't save the changes.  It took awhile for an RBI/Baseball Stars veteran to get used to, but once I did, it was a really cool game.

The perfect game was hard to pull off.  The way it works is that you start with 100 points, losing points for errors (misjudging fly balls, throwing to unoccupied bases), getting picked off (by the pitcher or on a fly ball), striking out, and one or two other things that I can't remember right now.  You could get points back for diving catches, but that was about it.  You started against a Level 1 team, which was a pretty easy game, and you played a higher level team for every 10 points you finished above 60 (90 or more played a Level 5 team).  If you beat the Level 5 team with 100 or better game score, that was considered a "perfect game", and you got to see the credits and whatnot.

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