Hey Dudes!

Now I might be just a dumb European, but I never really Got the fascination of Baseball. However I remember playing a Baseball game as a child, thinking that it was great Fun! Now I would like to get a few Baseball games and wanted to hear the experts, You! Which games are great? Which ones suck?!

Cheers!

RBI is the best. Dusty Diamonds is a fun game too.

Baseball simulator 1000
Bad News Baseball
Base wars
Bases loaded 1-4
Baseball stars 1-2
Legends of the Diamond
Dusty Diamond

Any game with the word "ball" in it sucks. Should help narrow down your search.

RBI is one of the greatest NES games ever made.

A lot of them I never could get into, but if you have to get a baseball game the original Baseball Stars gives so much to enjoy. You can just play straight up with it, make a team, play the season, you can ever manage the team players and play the coach and do those decisions too. It can be as simple or deep as you like and the interface and graphics are pretty good too.

@vern77777:  just picked two of those RBI games up yesterday.  you just inspired me to try it!  i dont usually go for sports games...

I like base wars, Bases loaded 4, Base ball stars 1 -2, and Dusty diamond. I dont really play the others.

Gameboy Ricky showed me and we played Bad News Baseball at campout, it was fun. Looks a lot like RBI Baseball.

Baseball Stars = Excellent.. and it's even better on the Neo-Geo!

The RBI series is good but I really like Baseball Simulator 1.000 mixing sim with arcade action. Also it is one of the few games with power ups; man love the outfielder with super Jump hard to use but if you can time it Rob other teams home runs lol. And also little League Baseball fun to play albiet that Taiwan team is just too powerful to beat.

Great thread.

I love the old sports games. A lot of us do consider the sport's titles a pain to get and that they are only filler carts but hell I grew up playing these games.


Sports titles on NES kicked ass. If you ever get a chance try the other sports genres like hockey, BB, football. God them bring back memories of me and my brother talking shit and giving each other the finger after scoring a point.
The baseball games rocked. I remember the bases loaded series. It may not have been the best in the Baseball category but that is what Dad bought us and we played the shit out of it.

Good times!!!

I really love the RBI series. RBI 3 is the most polished of them all, with subtle improvements over the first two (IE: being able to dive for balls, etc). I cant stand the batting perspective of the Bases Loaded series, so I have never looked to any other series for my baseball fix.

Yup, RBI #1 is the best one out there. Not exactly realistic but it's tons of fun both 1 and 2 player.

I hated that there wasn't really a game with actual player names. Tecmo did it for football, why not baseball. MLB was the closest you could get with real jersey numbers and stats if I remember correctly, but no names.

RBI had names and stats.

Little League Baseball is still my favorite. It never gets any love.

It begins and ends with Baseball Stars 1-2 for me. The "Front Office" aspect of the game makes it stand out from my perspective. Legends of the Game is pretty good as well.

Its all about Baseball stars & Bad News Baseball for me!

love me some RBI baseball and Base Wars, could play them for hours back in the day, now I have the RBI Baseball tune stuck in my head lol

I haven't played it since I was a kid, but I'm pretty sure my team, the Brewers, weren't a playable team.  That's all I wanted was to play as Jimmy Gantner.

That you are correct on, my Twins were but Red Sox = win.

Another nod to the venerable R.B.I. Baseball and a STRONG recommendation to check out the Famicom sequels for the game over the faux NES sequels. R.B.I. was developed by Namco but published by Tengen in North America for the NES. While Namco developed and published some great sequels in Japan for R.B.I. (known as Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium), Tengen developed R.B.I baseball 2 and 3 across the Pacific. That's why the second and third R.B.I. Baseball look so dissimilar to the original. If you check out the Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium series on the Famicom, you'll see that they kept the winning graphics with the cherubic players plus adding new stadiums, sounds, moves (jump and dive), etc.  Hell, in Famista Baseball '94 the second baseman jumps as he is turning a double play.  That alone is worth the shipping cost from Japan.  

You have clearly made a mistake and forgotten how great Super Glove Ball is.  I'll let it slide this time.

My favorites are Baseball Stars and RBI. Hard to pick which one is better, probably Baseball Stars since you can create teams, create players, and trade players. So much innovation in that game.