The Top Five 8-Bit NES Baseball Games

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This article raises the question...

Where is the RBI Baseball that appeared to be headed to the Xbox Live Arcade?

There were a couple of threads about it a while back here at this very forum, one of which had a response from someone at 2K Sports saying that it was still in the works.

[jeffy777]

Any of you guys remember those codes you had to put in for Bases Loaded to resume your season? I had those codes written all over the place, man. I was addicted to that game.

[myghty]

Wow! I owned all top 5 games mentioned & played the heck out of them. Out of these though Baseball Simulator 1.000 was my favorite. I remember spending hours renaming all the players to actual MLB players... Those were the days.

[ThirdDegree5803]

nobody played legends of the diamond? it has real players and they are legends!!! loved the gameplay...i remember loving that cheap nintendo music with it as well...

[myghty]

I also remember BS 1.000 had that stadium in space! That was awesome! LOL

I remember in Ultra Mode where I gave my outfielders rocket shoots so they can jump really high & steal HR! Man, I feel like playing that again.

[ARMORALLL]

Good read.

[rudyjuly2]

Baseball simulator was awesome. Stat tracking like crazy. That was #1 for me back in the day. Spent a ton of time on that with my brothers.

[rudyjuly2]

Baseball simulator was awesome. Stat tracking like crazy. That was #1 for me back in the day. Spent a ton of time on that with my brothers.

[Cyphre]

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nobody played legends of the diamond? it has real players and they are legends!!! loved the gameplay...i remember loving that cheap nintendo music with it as well...

Funny thing you know......LotD was a great game and I loved it cause it was the only game back then to have Roberto Clemente in it.....but, did you know? the games make-up and gameplay came straight from a Bandai reproduction of SNK's Baseball Stars....from animation down to the inserts to show the runners on 1st and 3rd.....


WOW.......<FLASH back> does anyone remember going to woolworth and K*B Toys to cough up $40-$50 for new NES and Sega Genesis releases? Age just past by and smack me in the face...lol

[sroz39]

Ahhh Baseball Simulator 1.000, awesome game. Until The Show, Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 was by far the baseball game that I had logged the most hours with.

Same here. Loved creating my team. It was a blast. 16 bit baseball is where the genre really hit it's stride, IMO. Ken Griffey was awesome, the aforementioned Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, the Triple Play game, the World Series games, loved Tony Larussa as well. But my sleeper favourite was Sports Talk Baseball. What a cool game that was.

[Mr5000]

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Is Bases Loaded still the only baseball game that allowed you to charge the mound?

[DeuceDouglas]

You should do a top five for the SNES too.

[bcruise]

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For me, replace original Baseball with either Bad News or Base Wars and you've got my list. Bad News' appeal was in its humor and cutscenes (ala Tecmo Super Bowl), and Base Wars was just.....crazy. I mean, who HASN'T wanted to take a Laser Sword to the catcher in order to score a run?

Also notable even though it's not on the list - RBI's sequels. One of them (can't remember if it was 2 or 3) had a feature we take for granted nowadays - replay of big plays.

[matt314hew]

I like the list. One of my favorite baseball games was Bad News Baseball. Basewars was a fun game to play too.

[Dirty Turtles]

My favorite is still Little League Baseball: Championship Series. Little League style with the Baseball Stars engine.