Favorite Baseball Game Pre OOTP!

[jmaness84]

I first got hooked on simulation baseball games with Front Page 98. Started playing that game in 99. Then I found OOTP in 2000 I believe. We'll I started with OOTP2. Im getting old so I can't remember the years as I used to

My favorite video game was RBI 93. It was a great game that taught me a lot about baseball history (84-92) For those that never played the game it had every team that made the playoffs from 84-91. All of the All-Star teams from 84-92. It also had the full MLB of 92.

[tward13]

Board games first - had one called Sports Illustrated baseball. It was the 1970 season. Played that a lot.

Then I had Sherco Baseball. Came with a big board with the field on it. Instead of results the ball ended up landing at certain cordinates on the field. depending on how you had your fielders set, and their rating they'd "catch" it. Being a historical sim kind of guy their ratings were easy enough to assign to historical players.

First computer game was Earl Weaver.

Had Front Page also.

The I got a game I really liked called Old Time Baseball. It ran on the LaRussa game engine, but had every player from the 1800's right to the early 80's. Had great reproductions of the oldtime parks and had Mel Allen or Hank Gowdy doing play by play. It was a shame that they didn't keep working with it.

[Whitey]

I played Extra Innings table top baseball for years and liked it. However, nothing matched my excitement when my Strat-o-matic cards arrived in the spring. Ah, things were so much simpler then. Rolling the dice and charting everything yourself.

Later, I got into Larussa and some others. Baseball Mogul was great fun until OOTP and then it seemed rather elementary.

[johnnyshaka]

http://s64.emuunlim.com/gameinfos/sp...wsbaseball.htm

The Sporting News Baseball game for my Commodore 64...absolutely loved that game!!! I used to keep track of stats game by game by hand. I would keep a pad of graph paper next to me and record every play. Man, I was a geek. Ah, those were the days.

[Jermanfu]

Statis Pro
APBA
Bases Loaded
Baseball Stars
Baseball Simulator (1.000)

My friends and I used to have a blast with 1.000.....I remember one season I had Kelly Gruber on my team and he tore it up.....ah that was good stuff.

EDIT-after thinking about this some more, I realize it wasn't Strat-o-Matic I was thinking about, it was Statis pro.....never actually played Strat

[Whitey]

Originally posted by tward13
Board games first - had one called Sports Illustrated baseball. It was the 1970 season. Played that a lot.

Then I had Sherco Baseball. Came with a big board with the field on it. Instead of results the ball ended up landing at certain cordinates on the field. depending on how you had your fielders set, and their rating they'd "catch" it. Being a historical sim kind of guy their ratings were easy enough to assign to historical players.

Wow, tward13, you just brought back some memories. I had forgotten about Sherco. I had that as well. Was that the game where you had all the different stadium dimensions and if it landed outside those dimensions it was a homer?

I played Sports Illustrated as well and also played some game that had a bunch of old timers in it from different eras. Cobb, Medwick, Dean, Ruth, Gehrig, etc. I can't remember exactly what that was.

[Rizon]

BasesLoaded for the NES (Also II, but III sucked hard)

Hardball 5/6

Course, there was a big gap in time in the mid 90s where I didn't play any baseball games cause I was on strike from the game.

[ctorg]

A tie between Baseball Mogul and Strat-O-Matic.

[treedom]

i liked mogul, larussa and front page...i never played earl weaver, but i'm thinking i missed out, since everyone keeps mentioning it

[ihatenames]

Earl Weaver Baseball II was my favorite game. sure i've played BB stars, mogul, FPS Baseball pro, larussa, and hardbal, but without a doubt EWB2 was my favorite one. I saw somewhere that the programer is still selling a version of it online somewhere. I might have to buy it.

[Giants44]

Originally posted by treedom
i liked mogul, larussa and front page...i never played earl weaver, but i'm thinking i missed out, since everyone keeps mentioning it

for its time weaver was the best

of course it was missing tons of things we take for granted today, like the ability to sim "other" teams games.

In 1988 a friend and I actually played the entire 162 game schedule for the entire AL, every team, every game - over 1,000 games took us like 6 months!

[thomamon]

Am I mistaken or did Earl Weaver actually come out of the dugout and kick dirt on the umpire?

[HolyCow98]

Yes...dirt flying...Earl barking at the ump...and the ump repeately saying "safe"...oh the memories....

[tward13]

Originally posted by Whitey
Wow, tward13, you just brought back some memories. I had forgotten about Sherco. I had that as well. Was that the game where you had all the different stadium dimensions and if it landed outside those dimensions it was a homer?

I played Sports Illustrated as well and also played some game that had a bunch of old timers in it from different eras. Cobb, Medwick, Dean, Ruth, Gehrig, etc. I can't remember exactly what that was.

Yep, that's the one. I had the early version, about 1972 - 1974, then my friend bought the newer edition a couple years later.

Yes, the baord had a generic field layout, then there were sheets with all the ballparks' fence dimensions.

One thing about playing those oldtime games, you learned how to keep score and record stats. Too aesy for kids these days.

(jeez, I'm getting old)

My 12 year old would love to play in an OOTP online league, but I told him all the old guys don't need some smartass kid talking trash. He kicks butt with his 1920's - 30's historical Dodgers team in the solo version.

[Ktulu]

World Class Baseball on the Turbo Graphx 16
Front Page Sports
High Heat
OOTP

[GoldenGlove]

Front Page Sports Baseball Pro Series

[Henry]

Old Time Baseball ... I keep a WIn98 machine around so I can play it

Henry

[justgettinginfo2]

Originally posted by Dreamscape
It's all about the Baseball Stars. Nothing came close.

Nothing came close second would be hardball

[tward13]

Originally posted by Henry
Old Time Baseball ... I keep a WIn98 machine around so I can play it

Henry

Figured you'd like that one. It used to crash a lot on me, and of course won't run on the XP, but there was a lot to like about that game. And I loved the old fields.

That was my first attempt to replay baseball history. Only got to the mid-teens. Now OOTP let's me continue, and against real people too.

[s8n666]

i think i still have EWBII on floppy somewhere...gotta find it. i loved the old-timers and negro teams they had...i remember it ha this cheesy spin-wheel that generated a password to play the game...wonder if anyone has a crack for that