I can't stand jackasses who say Baseball Stars is the best baseball game

[DamnTheCowboys]

God almighty, tons of my college friends said this all the time to me and it drove me nuts.

Then yesterday the local sports radio hack comes on in the afternoon and was talking about Nintendo and said, "and when it comes to baseball games we all know that Baseball Stars is the best baseball video game ever invented."
I was madder than a wet hornet and immediately picked my phone up, at work, and called this asshat and got on the air and bitched him out live, asking "Have you EVER played RBI baseball?"    This dumbass didn't even remember the game and I said, "Find a copy and play it and then tell me that Baseball Stars is the best.  It's OVERRATED!  Does Baseball Stars have Ruppert Jones?  I don't think so!"    I was proud to represent on the radio yesterday and call this guy out.

Anyway, I was at my parents' house a couple weekends ago, going through my old video games.   I have the 8-bit system at my place, with RBI and Tecmo Super Bowl.
I have tons of other games at my parents house and thought I'd grab one or two....so I grabbed Mario 2 and then saw Baseball Stars and thought about it, but it just isn't that good.  I mean it's fun and is way better than Bases Loaded and Major League Baseball and Tecmo Baseball, but Baseball Stars isn't even in the same ballpark as RBI.
The next time some jackass proclaims Baseball Stars as the best baseball video game ever, I'll slug them right in the balls.

[ultimate7]

Baseball Stars was fun

[Stock]

Sure, it was fun, but it also has a super shitty memory card in it.
I smashed this game into 100 pieces my Freshman year in college after I built up a super kick ass team, followed by 1 day where I turned it on and all the progress I made was deleted.

I have not played the game since.

fcking baseball stars!

[Stevo]

I have a few friends who make this claim all the time as well, not to mention Bases Loaded..  Baseball Stars is far inferior to RBI.  The only thing that made Baseball Stars good was that it kept stats and allowed you to make your own team.  Other than that, the game play sucked.

[BeefMaster]

I liked Baseball Stars better as a one-player game, thanks to the season mode and team-editing capabilities, plus the computer opponent didn't suck as much as the one in RBI.

I can't believe anyone could've liked Bases Loaded better than RBI - that game was crappy.  Bases Loaded 3 was a decent change of pace, but the original was not a good game.

[rdub]

Despite his namesake DamnTheCowboys is a good man in my book. Way to represent.

[MR NEW YORK]

Greatest baseball game of all time R.B.I.

[RedBarron]

I really liked Bases Loaded.  Jersey was my team. . . . they had a guy with 60 homers and a .467 average ---- but he hardly hit homers.  Bay had the homers on Jersey.

I used to keep stats on Bases Loaded.

I freakin' hated Major Leauge Baseball.  It was fun for a week or two. .  . . . then got stale.

I loved Tecmo Baseball. 

Another favorite of mine was Roger Clemens Baseball.

However, none were as good as RBI.

[mike larkin]

here are some of the problems with "baseball stars", which was a great game but had its glaring flaws. 

1.  The "All Black dressed" japanese team were better to use and easier to win with than the "American Dreams".

2.  The option to put women on your team.  Are you serious?  This flies in the face of any logic.  OK, let me make a team with a woman to face cy young from the American Dreams.  However growing up in
NY I had liberal PC friends who would try to incorperate one of these.  I, given the right sized lead, would bean said females.

3. In a league that sized it is hard to believe every game was played at SNK park.

4. For some reason, the manager got paid after games and was paid for a teams prestige. 

5.  Lastly, my memory is playing tricks on me.  I seem to remember that there was a team of all women.  There may not have been, it may have been my friends little sisters team, in which case I apologize.  Can you imagine that lockerroom.  Filled with summers eve and tampax.  the menstral cycle dictating the teams schedule.  this is a travesty.  How can this be in the same category as RBI? 

Baseball Stars...as fun as it is...RBI it is not.

[Attezzobal]

2. The option to put women on your team. Are you serious? This flies in the face of any logic. OK, let me make a team with a woman to face cy young from the American Dreams. However growing up in
NY I had liberal PC friends who would try to incorperate one of these. I, given the right sized lead, would bean said females.

5. Lastly, my memory is playing tricks on me. I seem to remember that there was a team of all women. There may not have been, it may have been my friends little sisters team, in which case I apologize. Can you imagine that lockerroom. Filled with summers eve and tampax. the menstral cycle dictating the teams schedule. this is a travesty. How can this be in the same category as RBI?

You rock.

[JerryD]

Baseball Stars is a fun game, but nowhere near RBI.

Tecmo Baseball is what get me into RBI.  In that I mean how much I suck at Tecmo Baseball, got frustrated, and traded it in for RBI.

Bases Loaded is okay, but Bases Loaded 2 is where it's at for that series.  Good old choice between first player (a prestigeous thing when I was a kid) or Boston (they had a pitcher who pitched quick as fuck).

[BeeJay]

I've been burned at the stake for my heretic love for Tecmo Babeball before, but I still love it.  I mean, there's a pitcher named Fries, how can you go wrong with that?

[Bonny]

MVP 2005

[nightwulf]

5.  Lastly, my memory is playing tricks on me.  I seem to remember that there was a team of all women.  There may not have been, it may have been my friends little sisters team, in which case I apologize.  Can you imagine that lockerroom.  Filled with summers eve and tampax.  the menstral cycle dictating the teams schedule.  this is a travesty.  How can this be in the same category as RBI? 

That was an included team, the "Lovely Ladies" if I remember correctly. While they were a bit out of place, beating them was quite profitable.

Nightwulf

[JerryD]

Tecmo Babeball

I want that game.

[BeeJay]

Ha, that's hilarious.  Those letters aren't even close to each other on the keyboard.

[malnuboy]

Ha, that's hilarious.  Those letters aren't even close to each other on the keyboard.

Dee-Nee posting, a game of inches.

[RedBarron]

Bases Loaded 2 was awesome.  It had an odd view but still a great game.

The bio rythms were great.  I'd say it was the first game to incorporate hot / cold streaks.

[BeeJay]

Tecmo Babeball

I want that game.

[Gantry]

I like Baseball Stars and really think it's a great game.  The two-player mode cannot match the enjoyment and strategy of RBI, but it really was a great effort by the folks at SNK....

Never played Tecmo Baseball, at least I don't ever remember playing it...