earlier baseball games - Page 4

Chicagofan76 · 11-23-2010, 10:23 PM

Anyone remember the name os the NES game that had a team in D.C.? i remember some of the players were Phil Bradley SS, Tommy Yu 1B & Daryl " Pacemaker" Hall 3B, i had all of them on Tony 3 for my EBL universe and Tommy Yu is a HOF. that was a great game.

JTSMOOTH · 11-24-2010, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Chicagofan76

Anyone remember the name os the NES game that had a team in D.C.? i remember some of the players were Phil Bradley SS, Tommy Yu 1B & Daryl " Pacemaker" Hall 3B, i had all of them on Tony 3 for my EBL universe and Tommy Yu is a HOF. that was a great game.

I think I pretty much played every NES baseball game and if I had to guess, I'd say its most likely one of the Bases Loaded games. I know they had a team in D.C. on pretty much every version released.

Leo_The_Lip · 11-24-2010, 01:19 PM

Cadaco All Star Baseball from 1962. Spinners mean arguments.

"It's on the line!"

"No, it's not! It's a home run!"

The red cards were the Hall of Famers, the black the current stars. Babe's Ruth 1 pie section was the best chance of a home run, but Killebrew was right up there. Hours and hours of screaming fun.

As far as I can tell, this is the version I had:

980 CADACO ALL STAR BASEBALL GAME 1962 Edition

macfly · 11-24-2010, 01:41 PM

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Baseball Stars was awesome. I still break out my NES every now and again just to play it.

Was if not the first, one of the first to allow creating your own teams and playing out seasons with them along with stat tracking.

Baseball Stars 2 on the other hand was a huge disapointment for me.

Baseball 2 was i think the biggest downturn back then .. it was nothing like the first! way to ruin a game eh?

griffeyin98 · 11-24-2010, 03:08 PM

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Baseball 2 was i think the biggest downturn back then .. it was nothing like the first! way to ruin a game eh?

I still remember stumbling onto the "special powered up team" before it hit Nintendo Power and me being the creative kid I was when I saw it say "What is a wren?" my first instinct was to answer "A Bird" and we thought we were baseball stars gods.

Also remember putting it on layaway at Meijer and going back to get it that night, the screenshot on the back of players with zero stats meant it would keep stats for us and we couldn't wait to play

damonrusst · 11-24-2010, 05:02 PM

Microleague baseball which you can play online now for free.

Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive -- Micro League Baseball

Pretty hilarious to see what occupied hours upon hours of my preteen life. Then I went Mogul which was regrettable but proved the gateway drug to OOTP. Now I'll never go back.

damonrusst · 11-24-2010, 10:25 PM

Just played a game of MicroLeague. The 1968 Tigers are still unstoppable with Gates Brown as DH. Pretty funny.

To think how many hours of our lives we lost waiting for the teams to walk on and off the field after every inning. No way around it.

I also appreciated how fast the controls came back to me. Burned forever in some deep part of my brain.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Giants44 · 11-26-2010, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

Cadaco All Star Baseball from 1962. Spinners mean arguments.

"It's on the line!"

"No, it's not! It's a home run!"

The red cards were the Hall of Famers, the black the current stars. Babe's Ruth 1 pie section was the best chance of a home run, but Killebrew was right up there. Hours and hours of screaming fun.

As far as I can tell, this is the version I had:

980 CADACO ALL STAR BASEBALL GAME 1962 Edition

great find - I played this all the time and you are dead on right about the arguments. although I played most of the games solo and then the needle always pointed the way I wanted it to.

1998 Yankees · 11-26-2010, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Leo_The_Lip

Cadaco All Star Baseball from 1962. Spinners mean arguments.
"It's on the line!"

"No, it's not! It's a home run!"

The red cards were the Hall of Famers, the black the current stars. Babe's Ruth 1 pie section was the best chance of a home run, but Killebrew was right up there. Hours and hours of screaming fun.

As far as I can tell, this is the version I had:

980 CADACO ALL STAR BASEBALL GAME 1962 Edition

LOL. I don't remember if this was actually the game but we had something like it and I DO remember my brother intentionally/accidentally nudging the board in such a way as to move the spinner just a bit...

PSUColonel · 11-26-2010, 11:18 PM

Giants44 · 11-27-2010, 04:36 PM

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oh yeah - this thread is more nostalgic then VH1 classic

DanP68 · 11-27-2010, 08:33 PM

I started playing Statis Pro baseball in 1979 (78 card set) and was instantly hooked on sports sims. I played Microleague on my C64 but didn't think it was that great a game. My friends and I formed a league with Microleague, and that was a lot of fun.

Moved on to the Earl Weaver Baseball series on the Amiga, and that remains one of my favorites. I used to love creating stadiums. (hint, hint Markus) Played Baseball Simulator 1000 and had a lot of fun with it. Not a particularly realistic game, but the action was great and you could do some fun team customizations.

Then moved on to Front Page Sports Baseball. I would still play 98 if it could work under Windows xp/vista/7. A great game which was way ahead of its time.

jerryb1961 · 07-08-2018, 06:27 PM

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Then moved on to Front Page Sports Baseball. I would still play 98 if it could work under Windows xp/vista/7. A great game which was way ahead of its time.

I still play it in a W98 virtual machine in VMware. It ain't realistic but it sure is still fun even today.

11-23-2010, 10:23 PM	#61
Chicagofan76 Banned Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Diamond, IL Posts: 6,339 Infractions: 2/2 (3)	Anyone remember the name os the NES game that had a team in D.C.? i remember some of the players were Phil Bradley SS, Tommy Yu 1B & Daryl " Pacemaker" Hall 3B, i had all of them on Tony 3 for my EBL universe and Tommy Yu is a HOF. that was a great game.

11-24-2010, 01:19 PM	#63
Leo_The_Lip All Star Starter Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1,797	Cadaco All Star Baseball from 1962. Spinners mean arguments. "It's on the line!" "No, it's not! It's a home run!" The red cards were the Hall of Famers, the black the current stars. Babe's Ruth 1 pie section was the best chance of a home run, but Killebrew was right up there. Hours and hours of screaming fun. As far as I can tell, this is the version I had: 980 CADACO ALL STAR BASEBALL GAME 1962 Edition

11-24-2010, 05:02 PM	#66
damonrusst Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 470	Microleague baseball which you can play online now for free. Virtual Apple 2 - Online disk archive -- Micro League Baseball Pretty hilarious to see what occupied hours upon hours of my preteen life. Then I went Mogul which was regrettable but proved the gateway drug to OOTP. Now I'll never go back.

11-24-2010, 10:25 PM	#67
damonrusst Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 470	Just played a game of MicroLeague. The 1968 Tigers are still unstoppable with Gates Brown as DH. Pretty funny. To think how many hours of our lives we lost waiting for the teams to walk on and off the field after every inning. No way around it. I also appreciated how fast the controls came back to me. Burned forever in some deep part of my brain. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

11-26-2010, 11:18 PM	#70
PSUColonel Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13,105

11-27-2010, 08:33 PM	#72
DanP68 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 151	I started playing Statis Pro baseball in 1979 (78 card set) and was instantly hooked on sports sims. I played Microleague on my C64 but didn't think it was that great a game. My friends and I formed a league with Microleague, and that was a lot of fun. Moved on to the Earl Weaver Baseball series on the Amiga, and that remains one of my favorites. I used to love creating stadiums. (hint, hint Markus) Played Baseball Simulator 1000 and had a lot of fun with it. Not a particularly realistic game, but the action was great and you could do some fun team customizations. Then moved on to Front Page Sports Baseball. I would still play 98 if it could work under Windows xp/vista/7. A great game which was way ahead of its time.