The Onion is at it again with this recap of the Little League World Series. The thing is, they used a current real event, the Little League World Series, but the game they described was actually the classic NES game Little League Baseball Championship Series (skill 1 hitters and pitchers, etc.)
“Jerry had all his pitches working today: the fastball, the slowball, the ball that starts fast and then slows down right before it reaches the plate, and the breaking pitch that starts down the middle and then slowly curves 15 feet outside as the batter begins his swing,” Hershiser said. “His pitch sequences were set up beautifully. He did a great job of throwing pitches inside to make the batter stand in the far corner of the batter’s box, and then coming back with a fastball that painted the outside corner. Worked every time.”
I especially loved the ol’ fast-then-slow pitch, and the day I discovered I could jump to ctach screaming line drives (I was, and still am, a notorious instruction booklet tosser). Go Texas!
This is still one of my all-time favorite baseball games for any system. So simple, yet so much fun.
As a Red Sox fan, I just wish they had made the best team from somewhere else than NY, but oh well. Of course if you wanted a real challenge you could pick one of the bad teams, but it was always more fun seeing how fast could evoke that 10 run rule.
BTW, I wonder if this attention might mean that we could be seeing this game sometime soon on the VC – I hope so
The Onion is superb!
Layered (like an Onion) and mercilessly satirical, it shows how easy and ingrained it is for press everywhere to “report” trivialities as important or real ( Area Man tries new brand of trainers, likes them too! ).
…Any budding counter-culturalist / free-thinker / Discordian would be well-advised to start reading it ASAP.
p.s. search their site for Nintendo stories (or PS or Xbox) and you will certainly be amused!
My brother and I used to play that game a lot when we were little. He was really good at it, and it was probably the only game he could beat me at. I would get so angry at him. Oh, nostalgia~