Poll – favorite NES baseball game?
Monday, March 30th, 2009 at 3:34pm by David
Major League Baseball is right around the corner, so this week we ask:
Which is your favorite 8-bit NES baseball game or series?
Tell us about your favorites in comments!
March 30th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
RBI Baseball, for me. I spent a lot of time with that game. I wish modern baseball games were as simple and addictive as these old ones.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Nice picture choice of Varitek slapping the taste out of A-Roid’s mouth.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Dude, the only NES ball game that matters is Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars. Epic. Robots beating the hell out of each other on the diamond. Close play at second? Screw the ump, whip out lazers and settle it like men. Or.. like.. robots. Whatever. It rocks. I also nominate it cause I own a real fancy shrinkwrapped copy. ;D.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Base Wars!
How could you leave that out of the list? Made for an entertaining twist, something baseball sorely needs to be entertaining. I can’t wait until we have real robots capable of recreating the experience!
March 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Although Baseball Stars is probably a better game, I have to vote for Bases Loaded. I spent an entire summer playing against my grandma’s neighbor.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
double post apologies, but.. ok.. Baseball Stars was really special to me as a kid as well.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Tylor, you just made my friends list!
/Base Wars rocks.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
@ Derek:
You may want to look into Konami’s Power Pro series on the Wii. It’s got a stupidly huge number of play modes including 2 that are pretty much baseball RPGs, so on the surface it appears anything but simple. Then you start playing and everything changes. There aren’t a lot of goofy mechanics, just simple ball with great physics. If you use the classic pad it often feels like an SNES game from some wonderful alternate reality.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Power Pros is awesome for sure. The RPG “Success” mode is just too awesome for words.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
wait…. which one was Fred Savage playing in The Princess Bride? i want to vote for that one.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
I never played any baseball games on the NES besides just baseball (which I found somewhat lacking in the fun department).
As far as baseball games in general go I’m quite partial to Baseball Stars 2. Insane amounts of fun. In two-player at least. 1 player is disgustingly hard.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
My brother and I rarely finished a game of R.B.I. My goal wasn’t to win. It was to get into a pickle and then have him throw to a base with nobody on it, sending the ball into no mans land. Then he would throw the controller, making me the winner.
Man, I was kind of a d**k. And I’d probably do the same thing if we played today.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I’m not a big baseball fan, but I have fond memories of playing Bases Loaded with my older brother. It was a fun and well balanced game.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Bad News Baseball by Tecmo really did it for me. And who the hell was on the end of the bench after a home run?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmiTtSVFm9s
March 31st, 2009 at 10:35 am
Bad News Baseball, all the way!
March 31st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Deepthought,
That game is Hardball (I had it for the C-64, and it was definitely an awesome game).
My fav. N.E.S. baseball game has yet to be mentioned – Little League Baseball. I played the life out of that game. I hope we see it some day on the VC.