Hello everyone and welcome to the latest installment of the Weekly Contests!  This week’s game is going to take you out to the ball game where you can buy some peanuts and Cracker Jacks and root, root, root for the home team!  I’m Bimmy Ruth Jr. and I’ve assembled some of the greatest baseball players ever to take on our arch rivals, the dreaded Abobos!  Remember last year when we played them in basketball?  If you don’t remember, read about it here (don’t forget to read the outro near the conclusion of the contest to see how badly the Abobos humiliated Team Bimmy after the match):
 
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Well this year, we are going to take them down at baseball.  And I have just the perfect team to send those guys boo-hooing back to the dugout.  First of all, I have all-star slugger Williams Mays on my team.  He can hit a homerun outside the ballpark any time, any place.  Next up, I have hit-master Rowper Ripkin Jr. on my side.  He hits the ball so many times that he’s been to third base more times than I have…Wait, what!?  Why are you laughing?  You guys don’t think I’ve scored with a girl at all??  Well, let me tell you, I’ve scored with plenty of girls over the years!  Just because Rowper Ripkin Jr. has had like 10 girlfriends in the last month to my one all-time doesn’t mean I’m a dud of a stud!  Anyway, my team boasts one of the top players in the game in Jawbreaker Jeter (don’t know who Jawbreaker is?  Think Double Dragon V)!  With his shortstop skills, he will be tagging out those lunkheaded dummyheads well before they reach third base!  See, Abobos, I can score before you guys!  What girl wants to be with some ‘roided up idiot when she can have a piece of the Bimmster?  Oh, and how can I forget about having Countdown Cobb on my team (Countdown…yeah another Double Dragon V guy)!  He’s so powerful that he will be slugging balls out of the ballpark faster than you can say “Seventh inning stretch.”  I also have Linda Gehrig on my team to blast some balls into the outfield and make the Abobos scurry around faster than the rat in the Battletoads Rat Race level on the NES!  Um, yeah, she is a GIRL, so WHAT?!  Look, don’t judge a book by its cover.  Just because she has a Mohawk, looks really butch, is a little light in her loafers, likes to wear baseball jackets, and loves munching on carpet doesn’t mean she sucks at baseball!  In fact, she’s a baseball ALL-STAR!  And my last secret weapon is my brother, the ultimate all-star.  The home-run hitter, the master of stealing bases, the bunter of balls, the one, the only, Jimmy Griffey Jr.  Wait, what do you mean we don’t have the same last name?  We had the same father!  Doesn’t that count for something?  You don’t see me judging you!  Anyway, these shirtless idiots are going to really regret kidnapping my girlfriend AND clogging up my toilet!  You guys think the Mexican food was nasty the last time, wait until you see what Thai food has done to my stomach!  Hope you have a good plumber!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!  Oh…uh...sorry.  I seem to have gotten a little carried away.  It’s just that revenge has never been so SWEET…especially when you have eaten sweet and sour AND spicy Thai sauce!  Boy, “Revenge” sounds like such a good idea for a sequel.  I really need to use that.  I’ve been talking about it for so long that…Oh, sorry.  I’m rambling on now.  Here is what you need to know to help us defeat those Abobo knuckleheads in good old Baseball:
 
 

• Choose whichever team you want
• Play as the top team on the scoreboard.  The game randomly assigns you to either the top or bottom spot, so if you don’t get the top spot, reset your NES until you do.
• Your score will be the differential between your score and the computer’s score
• In the event of a tie, whoever has the most runs breaks the tie (ex. Two people tie with 5.  One person has 10 runs, while the other one has 15 runs.  The person with 15 runs takes precedence).
• In the event two or more players tie with the same number of runs, the most runs scored in the 1st inning take precedence.  In the further event of a tie, repeat this process with the 2nd inning, 3rd, 4th, etc.
• Greatest differential between runs scored (runs you scored) and runs scored against you (runs you allowed) wins.  A positive score takes preference over a negative score (ex. A differential of 10 takes precedence over a score of -20.  Purposely losing to the computer by 20 goals does not give you a better differential than a person who beats the computer by 10 goals.  Positive scores take precedence over negative scores regardless of differential).
• Ex: Team A (you) 10, Team C (CPU) 5 = score of 5
• Ex: Team A (you) 5, Team C (CPU) 10 = score of -5
• Participation: Play an entire game
• Take your picture just as the third out happens in the bottom of the 9th inning.  You can pause the game at this point.  If you don’t pause the game then, you will be taken to the final scoreboard, which only lasts a few seconds and there’s no opportunity to see your final score after this.  The game does not allow you to pause on the final scoreboard.
• GENRE: Sports

 
 
The contest ends Sunday, 5/1/16 at 11 PM NA time.  Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid.  The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid.  No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted.  No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed.  You must take a picture of your computer monitor.  There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers.  Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator.  Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests.  The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed.  Good luck everyone and have fun

OFFICIAL SCOREBOARD
Baseball (Sports)
Place	Score	Username
1	40	bertsampson
2	35	TWarwick07
3	33	ToxieRules
4	31	Brock Landers
5	24	gutsman004
6	20	smick
7	19	Richardhead
8	8 (17-9)	Commander Santa
Participation
9	8 (14-6)	xtremegamer
10	7 (18-11)	Seppatoni
11	7 (16-9)	Quack
12	6	arnpoly
13	5	Ferris Bueller
14	4 (5-1)	liminy
15	3 (9-6)	Mega Tank
16	3 (7-4)	SuperJimtendo
17	1	Krunch
18	0	BingoRingo
19	-1 (9-10)	EgasKrad
20	-1 (8-9)	JamesRobot
21	-2 (12-14)	skinnygrinny
22	-2 (6-8)	zobber
23	-2 (6-8)	mbd39
24	-6	dukeofhurl99
25	-7	laddersandcakes
26	-13	barrelsAndRivets
27	-17	Stryphos

The actions of your outfielders seem so random....sometimes they will just sit there not doing shit. I might just be doing something wrong though.

-13

Dear Baseball, go fuck yourself. I simply don't have it in me to play another full game, even though I know I can do much better. This title pisses me off more than any other game I've ever played (I'm admittedly terrible at games, though NONE have ever come close to unnerving me this way). We were even in the 1st, then the CPU scored 4 home runs in a row, and then in subsequent innings, it's like my outfielders were on strike, and theirs were just always in the right place.

I'm going to pop in Baseball Stars and have some fair, challenging fun now.

Good luck everyone. Don't let this one get to you. I'm a goner.




 

3 for me!
(9-6) 


 

So.........time to practice "Legendary Wings."

Haha! Or play more GnG?
 

I'll probably play more GnG when I get the cart, unless I want to make a last ditch effort to increase my score a little with point racking. The contest has actually got me in the mood to play NES GnG and finally beat it, but I want to do it on real hardware.

 

I got you next week guts! 
 

Tough game here, the outfielders are computer controlled as far as I know you have to wait till they get to the ball. Very frustrating defensive controls. If you never played black box baseball you will have a new appreciation for  rbi baseball. But you have to look at it in the context of its release, it was a launch title and if you google atari 2600 baseball or realsports baseball it makes nes baseball look like a million bucks. Also the teams have no statistical difference, just uniform colors

19 (24-5)

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I did a couple innings to test the game out. How does base running work? I had two on and seemed to send them back on a double. Somehow it was a double play.

I think you have to press the d pad In the direction of the base runner you want to start running,  not where you want him to run to

This was the first NES game I ever played and I'm pretty sure it's the only reason my parents got me a NES. They tried to find baseball for the Odyssey 2, but it was out of print and they got talked into a NES console and this game instead. Best Christmas gift ever. Funny thing is that I don't think I ever played this in 1-player mode.... Time to give that a try.

Graphics and audio,this has real sports baseball beat,but the clunky game play is pretty similar. At least this game can process height of your hit.

Wow,no 10 run rule... And here I was all hopeful.

Truth be told Guts , I remember playing realsports baseball for the first time on the 2600 and my young mind being blown how much better it was from the original atari baseball. I think they had a realsports football that was a great 2600 game as well

Updated last second score - +33

I don't have a good feeling about this one.  Might dedicate 50% of this week to Battletoads reps since you guys have me scared for that one

Kung Fu and Real Sports Football were two of the last 2600 games I played regularly before I got my nes. Good games for that system,but the nes was on another level.

I had this game as a kid and was pretty good at getting homeruns, however the CPU would always beat me anyways.

I had a +1 differential run but my dog was distracting me and I couldn't get a damn picture.......

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