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

[Man of Steal]

Sadly, I owned Baseball Stars looooooong before I ever got my hands on my first copy of RBI Baseball.  I bought into the hype.  It was enjoyable, but the novelty of having real MLB players was too much to pass up.  I think I ended up giving my copy of Baseball Stars away to a friend of mine.

Then again, this was the mid 90s.  I wasn't old enough to appreciate RBI Baseball when it first came out (I was 3.) 

[ben seaver]

The gameplay was too slow.  However, I think if a rom editor (to create real teams/players) was around it would greatly improve its playability.

Why no love for Microleague Baseball?  Or NES Baseball?  Or that handheld game from the early 80s that is out again now with the green field and red LED graphics?

[ultimate7]

I remember liking NES baseball when it first came out, but that doesn't mean it was any good.

I loved Micro League baseball.  I'd still play it if someone knows of an emulator.

[fathedX]

Or that handheld game from the early 80s that is out again now with the green field and red LED graphics?

I played the shit out of that game.  I still play it, although the reproduction they sell now is not quite the same.  Luckily, I still have the original. 

[BeefMaster]

I remember liking NES baseball when it first came out, but that doesn't mean it was any good.

I loved Micro League baseball.  I'd still play it if someone knows of an emulator.

Did you play the game on Apple or Commodore?  I've used CCS64 (a Commodore 64 emulator) before, although it's been a few years, and I never played MicroLeague.  It takes a bit to figure out how to use the disk images, but it seemed to work okay generally.  It's shareware.  I've never tried out an Apple emulator, so I don't have any recommendations in that regard.

[ultimate7]

I've used an apple emulator, but I think the version I played was IBM.

[BeefMaster]

I've used an apple emulator, but I think the version I played was IBM.

If it's for DOS, you can try DOSBox.  I discovered it a year or two ago, and it's worked well for most of the games I've tried with it.

[ben seaver]

You can play it via an online apple ii emulator @
http://www.virtualapple.com/microleaguebaseballdisk.html

you can also play Oregon Trail there

I remember liking NES baseball when it first came out, but that doesn't mean it was any good.

I loved Micro League baseball.  I'd still play it if someone knows of an emulator.

[Briznock]

I feel that my love for RBI could only have gotten to where it is today because of Baseball Stars.  It was a first of its time.  You could create and modify and trade and hire and fire.  Its gameplay was smoother, but no better than RBI.  And after many dominating teams that I created had fallen to the shitty memory card in the game, I fell back to the simplicity and reality RBI baseball. 


VIVA LA RBI

[ericdavisfan]

Baseball Stars is a great game, and I still play now and then.  It has some features that would be cool on RBI.  I think Gantry was dead on in saying that Baseball Stars has a lot to offer in the 1 player category.  However, RBI is superior in gameplay, especially in 2 player mode!

[DamnTheCowboys]

For those of you who want to talk about Tecmo baseball.  it sucked because it contradicted Tecmo.   Tecmo Bowl had actual NFL players, and Tecmo basketball had actual NBA players.   Yet, Tecmo Baseball didn't!   WTF!?

[BeefMaster]

I had Tecmo Super Baseball on the SNES - it was one of the worst baseball games I have ever played.  It had real MLB players but not team names/logos, the reverse of Griffey.  The gameplay was simply horrific.

[Dryden]

I remember liking NES baseball when it first came out, but that doesn't mean it was any good.

I loved Micro League baseball. I'd still play it if someone knows of an emulator.

I grew up on Microleague.  I even have a copy on my Palm Pilot.  Ah, the memories.

[Gantry]

I too grew up on Microleague...  I played it so much I had dreams about it.  One dream I remember (I must have been about 10 or so), I was the 69 Mets and Ron Swaboda hit a dinger.  But on the scoreboard after the dinger there were weird characters with a question mark at the end.  Then the fans stormed the field.  Scared the shit out of me for days afterwards...

[BeeJay]

For some reason I didn't remember what Microleague was until Gantry's post.  That game was pretty damn fun.  I also had a handheld game called Batter Up World Series or something like that.  It was 2 player, meaning it was fkn huge.  It also had an uppity robot voice that announced the game.  It sucked ass though.  I think you could get there were only 4 different spots the ball could land.

[nightwulf]

The gameplay was too slow.  However, I think if a rom editor (to create real teams/players) was around it would greatly improve its playability.

There've been requests for this before, but I've not even glanced at the ROM. My biggest concern is the battery-backed RAM. [nerd]It's mapped into the NES' address space at 0x6000-0x7FFF if I remember correctly and is read/written normally[/nerd] but there's often checksum routines and whatnot that look for invalid saves, and working around them sounds like a bag of no fun.

Nightwulf

[Gantry]

Uh oh folks, I'm in a jam...  Seaver has a tough no out situation with RBI Legend Rick Burleson at the plate.  What would a good MicroLeague manager do here?

[Gantry]

Holy fucking shit....

Ron Swaboda just hit a home run for me.  I'm scared to go to sleep tonight...  I can see the scoreboard characters in my head now, so fucking frightening.  Hold me!

[TempoGL]

i can't get this virtual apple stuff to work?  help?

[BeefMaster]

I also had a handheld game called Batter Up World Series or something like that.  It was 2 player, meaning it was fkn huge.  It also had an uppity robot voice that announced the game.  It sucked ass though.  I think you could get there were only 4 different spots the ball could land.

I had that game, too - the name was "Talking Baseball" or something like that.  The "Batter Up World Series" you remember was from the opening line of the announcer: "Welcome to the Batter Up World Series between the Eagles and the Buffaloes."

I could slaughter the computer in one inning in that game by bunting to third with every batter and taking extra bases on the throws.