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In the '80s, you were either an Intellivision-owning patriot, or an Atari-loving Soviet. Curt Schilling was in the former camp:
"'Major League Baseball' was like the greatest baseball game ever. If you had a consistent playing partner... every game was 1-0, and you had to hit a home run down the left field line."
I once threw a perfect game against my brother in Intellivision Baseball. If you ask him about it, he'll say there was something wrong with our console, and that it shouldn't really count. Like Cardinal fans and the '85 Series.
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I accept no answer other than Earl Weaver Baseball.
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by David A. Arnott on Jan 19, 2012 9:15 AM EST reply actions
EWB FTW!
…I still play Earl Weaver Baseball v. 1.5, from 1989…. every player from 1894 to the present is eligible in our league.
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by TLBKlaus on Jan 19, 2012 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
Try "Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball"
I changed the players to their real names, and then missed playing the Cards as a team of comedians.
by Midwestside on Jan 19, 2012 9:24 AM EST reply actions
Except there was a character limit.
Terry Pendelto really hit a lot of homers for my Braves that game.
DON'T GO TO SLEEP EARLY OR JEFF FRANCOEUR WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS AND LOWER YOUR OBP. - Scott
by BullManUGA on Jan 19, 2012 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
IN that game. D’oh.
DON'T GO TO SLEEP EARLY OR JEFF FRANCOEUR WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS AND LOWER YOUR OBP. - Scott
by BullManUGA on Jan 19, 2012 11:48 AM EST up reply actions
I went Pendletn
by Midwestside on Jan 19, 2012 5:37 PM EST up reply actions
"Baseball Stars" for the NES.
I don’t understand why no other management-style baseball game (to my knowledge) has split out the “prestige” of a player as a separate skill category.
You’d have players who couldn’t hit much, but they could still sell tickets on name value alone.
MVP Baseball 2004 was (probably) objectively better than Baseball Stars in portraying actual professional baseball, but it came out when I was in my late 20s, and Baseball Stars was released when I was in my early teens… so Baseball Stars wins.
MLBMilestone.com - following the numbers to Cooperstown
by D98 on Jan 19, 2012 12:26 PM EST reply actions
Little League Baseball: Championship Series
By the same people who made Baseball Stars. It doesn’t allow you to make your own team, but I think it plays better and it gets my vote.
by chaney on Jan 19, 2012 4:22 PM EST up reply actions
Super Baseball Simulator 1.000!
I’d have mentioned Earl Weaver Baseball, but that was done already.
SBS1.000 was more fun, though, in an arcadey sense. You could use the super players, like the batter who hit uncatchable snaking line drives or whose bat turned the ball into an explosive; plus there was the pitcher who could throw 140mph, or who threw eight balls at once. Great stuff.
by Phrozen on Jan 19, 2012 12:46 PM EST reply actions
Eight balls at once?
So you got a K, a BB, and a hit in every AB?
by J0SER on Jan 19, 2012 3:11 PM EST up reply actions
Something like that.
by Phrozen on Jan 19, 2012 4:55 PM EST up reply actions
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