Favorite Baseball Game Pre OOTP!

[yanksfan3333]

Roger Clemens MVP Baseball
Baseball Stars
and
Techmo Baseball

And who could forget Base Wars?

[ZouDave]

I was about to say I couldn't believe I'd be the first person to mention Statis Pro Baseball, but thankfully some others here on page 4 played that one too. Statis Pro was and is still an awesome game. Birthday parties/sleepovers growing up were spent playing little tournaments we would make up with the MLB teams. We played mainly the 1988 season, and I always took Houston for some reason. Nolan Ryan and Mike Scott were awesome starters, and my first 4 batters of the lineup had A/A speed. I was all about manufacturing runs.

It was with Statis Pro that me and my friends first got into the idea of fantasy drafts long before we even knew about rotisserie baseball. We'd sort all of the players by position and pick a draft order and each get like 4 teams. Man, what a game.

Baseball Stars is definitely the best Nintendo baseball game.

Triple Play '98 was the finest baseball game ever made on the consoles of today.

Tony LaRussa 4 was the first PC baseball game I got hooked on. Me and 2 buddies created a fictional 28-team league from scratch and played out the entire season. We had teams from Cameroon, Congo, Italy, etc. That was great. That was the summer of '94 right after we had graduated from HS. While most people were watching the OJ Simpson getaway, we were coming up with names for the Congo team. I believe Hakuna Matata was our cleanup hitter!

Tony Larussa '96 was awesome...all about the fantasy draft in that game, too. FPS '98 tried to take the title from LaRussa, but the sim time was too much.

OOTP is definitely now the king of baseball sims.

[s8n666]

larussa was certainly the best when it came to the gm aspect of the game, hands down. they just wasted their time with the game engine, instead of excelling at simming like OOTP. It was a sad day when they stopped making them. Microleague was, and still is, one hell of a game. i played fantasy leagues through it for years, and i still own the 94 souped-up version with sweet graphics. ahh, memories

[bosunmate]

It was Earl Weaver for me loved that one pitch, then High Heat until they screwed up manage mode. Season Ticket then OOTP and have never looked back

[DodgerBaseball]

First for me was defintely Earl Weaver Baseball, followed by Sporting News Baseball, Major League Manager, Radio Baseball, then came Pursue the Pennant.

DB

[UKSubs]

I think Earl Weaver was my favorite pre-OOTP baseball game. I could play that game for hours and never get bored. Though the same could be said of Tony LaRussa Baseball 3 and Baseball Simulator 1.000, which is by far the best console baseball game.

[StrosMan]

Originally posted by Jermanfu
Strat-0-Matic
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.

You just HAD to dredge up Kelly Gruber, didn't you? Man oh man! Didn't matter who I brought in as my 1.000 closer - Eck or Rob Dibble - somehow... SOMEway Gruber would find his tubba-lard way to the plate and pull a Kirk Gibsonesque tater tot on me just when I'd jubulantly (sp) finished taunting Jer with Hammer's "Can't Touch This" after back-to-back Ks in the 9th.

For the rest'a y'all, you shoulda seen Ol'Clown Face Jermanfu when he pulled out yet another "Miracle on Lice". Dude's freak face made Ronald McDonald look like a Paul Reubens Sarasota County mug shot.

But mannnnnnn those were the days, Jer!!! Glad you've gotten me hooked on OOTP.

[BleacherBum]

All-Star Baseball, with the individual player cards and the spinners. Its been over 20 years and I still remember those cards: 1=hr, 5=triple, 11=double, 7/13=single, etc.

[twins15]

High Heat 2003 for me, though High Heat 2001 was almost as good.

[bigrockshow]

Microleague Baseball on C64, and Sporting News was good too for its gameplay

[Rockpile]

Baseball stars was awesome...I wish they'd make a modern version of that. Baseball Simulator 1000 was really cool for the NES too.

I played a lot of High Heat and some FPS baseball on PC, but I was so pumped to find OOTP!

[s8n666]

get it while it's hot
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[dangarion]

Or you can just get if off the The Underdogs I know most of you know of this place.

Here is the link for baseball games http://www.the-underdogs.org/genre.p...ubgen=Baseball

[chrisj]

Hmm.... well, I started with Hardball, then moved on to Tony LaRussa, then High Heat.

[s8n666]

this site has a sequel....dl'ing it now
http://www.bangbangplay.com/

[ZouDave]

Originally posted by dangarion
Or you can just get if off the The Underdogs I know most of you know of this place.

Ok...I did NOT know about this amazing freaking site, but now I will not sleep for weeks!

You sir earn an eternal +1 from me!!!

[sonicky]

i would definitely have to say front page sports baseballs those were really fun to play with the career mode they had

[Bald Eagles]

When I was in 8th grade, my parents got a TANDY keyboard that hooked to the tv. I played the baseball game on that for the longest time before I got the NES. You had 9 roster spots to type in any name you want, and then play ball. Hitting a homer would write Homerun in script over the scoreboard. That was Awesome.

Earl Weaver and Triple Play Baseball (2002) on the PC, Triple Play 2000 on the N64 and last year I got MLB2004 for the PS2. Since STB2003 I've spent most of it here though.

[robbydee]

Strat-o-Matic
Longball
Earl Weaver (Amiga)
Sosa High Heat
OOTP4

There was also a board game in which you actually had to trace the trajectory of pitched balls through the field, and the players were represented by clear stands. Can't remember the name.

[dougaiton]

Originally posted by s8n666
this site has a sequel....dl'ing it now
http://www.bangbangplay.com/

Could you imagine how good OOTP would be with IGIball graphics? I'd actually weep.