All you young guys should consider yourselves very, very lucky

[EnigmaNemesis]

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All right Jibby! You pass my 66 year old Show buddy.

Now here's a game HE used to play as a kid. His father took milk bottle caps and saved them. Made a baseball diamond out of cardboard, etc., systematically wrote things like SINGLE, DOUBLE, STRIKE, etc., etc., etc. on all the bottle caps and would play against his father when he was a kid. They'd draw the bottle caps and move a figurine around the bases until there were three outs, even kept a scorecard of their games.

He still has this game in a shoe box at his house. It's amazing how his father figured it out so that it would be statistically accurate.

Now that, is really awesome! I want to try that!

[DickDalewood]

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While only 26, I'm just old enough to remember baseball on Atari. When the NES dropped a few years later, my buddies and I played so much baseball on that thing it was ridiculous. It's seriously amazing how far things have come.

Haha, just think how funny it would be if all the fielders in The Show moved the same direction at the same time when we moved the stick.

[chuckm1961]

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My history ....

Age 8-12
The game where each player had a disc and you used a spinner to decide the hit, and it had Hall of Famers (what the heck was that called?).

Age 12-18
Strat-O-Matic Baseball ..... great memories of rolling dice and keeping statistics.

Age 19-37
Not much. After the Cubs lost in 1984, walked away from the game for a while.

Age 38-42
With my 5-year-old son, rediscovered baseball.
Backyard Baseball for PC
High Heat 2001, etc.
Loved watching my son play as all-time Yankees, hitting homer after homer as he played on the easiest level!

Followed by
MVP 04 and 05 .... my son will ONLY play this baseball game now.

MLB The Show since then.

[bfindeisen]

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Ahhh...the game the got me started on baseball video games...

Oh yeah, I'm 24...

[kilmar1]

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37 year old former little league pitcher. First game was Hardball for Commodore. Ah, the good ole days.

[DrUrsus]

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Here's one for you guys. Anyone remember Micro League baseball? It was a stat-based computer game, but had graphics. It had real players before most games had that. You could buy discs with all the teams (all time and for a particular year).

You just pressed like 5 to bunt, 0 for power swing 1 for contact swing (don't remember exactly). You didn't actually play, you just managed. You could change your pitchers, lineups, double-switch, etc. You could even go in and edit your players! Knight, it actually had a good editor. My brother didn't know this, so I would edit my players attributes sometimes and kill him. I was always the 85 Red Sox and he would be the 86 Mets. I hated Mookie Wilson in that game. My brother always bunted him on.

Great game. I spent way too much of my teenage years playing this game on my Atari computer.

[DrUrsus]

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I remember playing baseball on my Atari 2600, then moving to the baseball game on the 5200.

I will never forget seeing a picture of Hardball for the Commodore 64 in a magazine. I thought it looked amazing, and I played that game to death.

When I was a kid, my dad taught me how to play APBA, a baseball board game. It was awesome because it had classic teams and all-time teams as well.

I them graduated to another board game called Pursue the Pennant. That was amazing that game. I would play both teams. LOL..

After that, I bought a brand new computer just to play Tony LaRussa 2. That was a classic. It had the old stadiums, and I remember reprogramming all the rosters and stats so I could replay the 1950 season. It was great..

Yea, some love for Tony LaRussa 2!

[BuccaneerFan]

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I am 53...here is what I started playing as a kid. I've played them all since then. So you KNOW how much I am loving this game!

C

HA! I owned that electronic vibrating baseball game too! I remember the round magnetic "baseball" and how you had to throw runners out by using that big sling-shot spring thing in CF. lol

I also played this as a kid:


But my first baseball videogame was Home Run on the Atari 2600. That was one god-awful game! lol

The first "good" baseball videogame I played was "RealSports Baseball" on the Atari 5200. It was great for it's time! It even had speech. http://www.atariage.com/screenshot_p...areLabelID=654

I'm 36, but looking at these games I played makes me feel much older. lol

[The Sim God]

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Jim is not the oldest!!!!
I am a huge baseball fan, having played the game almost all my life, until retiring about 8 years ago after some 25 year old buck about took my head off with a line drive as I was playing in at third.
I play this game all the time and played with Knight's rosters all last year....best baseball game ever.
I will be 68 by the time this year's World Series is history and I can still kick *** on Veteran (acturally, I win about half of them).
Jibby

i love it, the old time greats are playing the same game we play

i turn 29 in a week or so and HOPE i have the reflexes & time to play games like this when i get older.

videogames, golf, bowling, electronics & cards/dice......thats what my 'golden years' will be filled with

[ckarlic]

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Great post and Im 32 as well. I tell my son everyday how lucky he is. And, chances are the best will get better with time.

[masterkembo]

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As great as the show is, I feel like sports game now just aren't as fun as they used. It could just be cause I'm not a kid anymore (well I am compared to some of you, at 21, haha ), but the fun factor has been sacrificed for realism. I still love the show though..

But on the topic of favorite old baseball games, I gotta go with Ken Griffey Jr. on SNES. Winning run was good too.

I agree with Griffey for SNES - I couldn't get enough of this game when it came out. The Mariner's were one of my favorite teams at the time too (remember the one game playoff against the Angels in 95??) so I remember playing with them and the Blue Jays religiously. After several years of cajoling my parents, they broke down and bought me a SNES for this game!

The thing I remember about this game was how fluid everything was - the game always felt so natural and looked great at the time too! The player models were spectacular too - the difference between Joey Cora and Jay Buhner on the Mariner's was just great.

Good times!

[Scottdau]

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That is the scary thing. If you look back at the graphics we have had since kids and now look at today's graphics. WOW! So just think about 5 or 10 years from now what they are going to look like. In the last 5 years the graphics have went from good to WOW!

[NCAAFootballFreak]

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Me too. I really liked it and played the heck out of it. I can still remember the names of half of the guys on my Boston lineup! Bahr , Jung, Powesk, Teylan, Wise... God I am a dork.

Me three! I'm 29, and the first baseball game that I owned was also Bases Loaded II. I still remember the lineup and pitching staff I had playing with Kansas. Goode, Yu, Binder, and Saigun were my big hitters and then the pitching staff was loaded for Kansas. May, Holland and Anders with Antman coming out of the bullpen!! I remember I was into the 7th inning of game 2 of the World Series -- May was on the mound and I had a no-no going. I was not talking to anyone in the house -- I was in a zone, ignoring everything around me . . . and then my brother came in and asked me something about my mom wanting to know what I wanted to drink for dinner . . . blooper over the 2nd baseman's head -- no-no gone. I won the game with a one-hitter and went on to win the World Series, but that was my first bid at a no-hitter. I was so mad at my brother! But a few weeks later I got one with Peters for Utah.

For some reason, the side-armers were WICKED awesome on that game. I'm such a nerd.

[DrUrsus]

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Me three! I'm 29, and the first baseball game that I owned was also Bases Loaded II. I still remember the lineup and pitching staff I had playing with Kansas. Goode, Yu, Binder, and Saigun were my big hitters and then the pitching staff was loaded for Kansas. May, Holland and Anders with Antman coming out of the bullpen!! I remember I was into the 7th inning of game 2 of the World Series -- May was on the mound and I had a no-no going. I was not talking to anyone in the house -- I was in a zone, ignoring everything around me . . . and then my brother came in and asked me something about my mom wanting to know what I wanted to drink for dinner . . . blooper over the 2nd baseman's head -- no-no gone. I won the game with a one-hitter and went on to win the World Series, but that was my first bid at a no-hitter. I was so mad at my brother! But a few weeks later I got one with Peters for Utah.

For some reason, the side-armers were WICKED awesome on that game. I'm such a nerd.

Oh, man those side armers kicked my arse! Those names you guys mentioned gave me flashbacks. Good times.

Remember since it was made by like I think Jaleco, it sounded like Japanese baseball with the ping of the bat, and the crowd stomped on the bleachers if I remember correctly.

One thing I really liked about that game was how you had to jump in order to get to some liners that would otherwise be over your head and go to the wall.

Even MLB 09 The Show doesn't implement jumping and diving in the outfield as much as I would like, if you know what I mean. I do find I have to dive a lot and jump in the infield, but hardly ever in the outfield. I don't know, maybe its just how I play, and I get or don't get good jumps and make it close enough.

[DrUrsus]

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That is the scary thing. If you look back at the graphics we have had since kids and now look at today's graphics. WOW! So just think about 5 or 10 years from now what they are going to look like. In the last 5 years the graphics have went from good to WOW!

Yea, my 4.5 year old thinks I am watching baseball when I play the Show.
I don't tell her otherwise because I don't want her wanting to grab the controller and start wanting to "play".

Heck sometimes when I forget I have some of my video games on, I am fooled that they are real until I get a good look at them. We've come a long way since Home Run on the Atari. That was probably a 2 K or maybe 1 K game cartridge.

Interesting side note. I was looking at a capsule that went to the moon, and it stated its computer that was onboard was 64K. That would be like going to the moon using a specialized Commodore 64! Unreal.