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04-07-2004, 11:53 AM
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Favorite Baseball Game Pre OOTP!
OK, I was just curious as to what everyones favorite baseball game was pre OOTP...
I have a couple of favorites... For the PC it was Front Page Sports Baseball. They had a career mode, not nearly as good as OOTP, but it kept me interested with fictional players. It was not nearly as complex as this with the money, but good for it's day. I also use to love Baseball Stars for the original Nintendo. Tom
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04-07-2004, 12:04 PM
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I played Baseball Stars all the time.
My first love was Earl Weaver Baseball, and then I got heavily involved in Front Page Sports Baseball Pro '98. Then i discovered OOTP, the rest is history!
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04-07-2004, 12:05 PM
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Nothing came close, IMO, to Earl Weaver Baseball.
A couple of the early incarnations of High Heat were pretty good. I also played APBA-BBW for quite some time. I loved Ernie Harwell's customized play-by-play.
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04-07-2004, 12:09 PM
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Microleague Baseball, hands down.
still my 2nd favorite baseball game of all time (and it's a close second to #1)
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04-07-2004, 12:10 PM
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Big High Heat guy.
Bases Loaded Series on NES OH! And Baseball Simulator 1000. That game was fun, there were all these crazy pitches you could do. And you could counter them with crazy hitting powers and stuff. Wasnt realistic at all, but fun. Basewars was also an interesting one on NES.
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04-07-2004, 12:27 PM
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The Tony La Russa series.
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04-07-2004, 12:29 PM
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It might sound crazy, but I used to play this game outside. There was actually a thing called a ball, or horsehide for some of you older folks;there was a thing called a plate, and that plate was not something I didn't bother using while chowing down something microwaved at the computer keyboard; we had round bats with which we were to hit a round ball square.
Funny stuff. |
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04-07-2004, 12:32 PM
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I did play Tony LaRussa, that was another good one. I vaguely remember Earl Weaver as well...
What I liked Baseball Stars over Bases Loaded was bcause it was the first to keep stats and continuious seasons.
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04-07-2004, 12:33 PM
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I use to love MLB for Nes, the moved on to Baseball Simulator 1.000 (not 3.000). Things went smoothly for a few years as I quit playing then I became addicted to Baseball Mogul and then I matured to playing OOTP4.
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04-07-2004, 12:35 PM
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Front Page 98. And then I also really liked Triple Play Baseball...I can't remember what year it was... it could have been 2001...
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04-07-2004, 12:39 PM
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Now we're talking!!! Microleague Baseball... with the General Manager add on for the Commodore. Still was the most fun I have ever had with a baseball simulation. There was nothing else like it at that time. |
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04-07-2004, 12:42 PM
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Strat-O-Matic and Pursue the Pennant (Diamond Mind). No career type options but the replay value was good. Always looked forward to the new cards or computer disk every winter.
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04-07-2004, 12:45 PM
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It's all about the Baseball Stars. Nothing came close.
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04-07-2004, 12:48 PM
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High Heat 2001 was pretty great at the time.
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04-07-2004, 12:50 PM
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Hardball III.
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04-07-2004, 12:55 PM
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I was big into High Heat before OOTP came out.
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04-07-2004, 12:56 PM
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 I used to play that way too! I played mostly 2b with a little of everything else. I was always the leadoff man and definately led my league in OBP. Nothing I loved more than getting to first and stealing second or maybe even third. Never had much power, but my eye, bat, and legs definately helped me pull my weight.
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For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping. — Sir Peter B. Medawar FTB |
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04-07-2004, 01:00 PM
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strat-o-matic and apba (the board games, not the cpu ones)
earl weaver tony larussa front page I wore out all of those games over the years.
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04-07-2004, 01:02 PM
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I loved APBA and Strat-O-Matic when i was a kid.
Never really favored any of the PC games till OOTP 4 and I played them all. They all seemed to have fatal flaws like bad AI and no career plays or crazy stats. This game keeps getting better, fixing many of the remaining flaws with each version. Let's have the new one, I gotta start a season soon! Go Marlins! |
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04-07-2004, 01:09 PM
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Minors (Rookie Ball)
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Bases Loaded 1-3 (nes)
RBI series (nes) Hardball III, 94 (sg) FPS Baseball Pro 98 |
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