The Top Five 8-Bit NES Baseball Games

[jyoung]

Baseball Stars is great, but Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball was my favorite.

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The field hazards made the different parks play uniquely.

Plus you had DRACULA and SATAN as selectable characters.

[Flaxseed Oil]

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I have a few underrated titles to spice up the convo:

Little League Baseball. You pick a team and try and advance through the whole little league world series.

Bad News Baseball.... this game was awesome!

Techmo Baseball ... I def. remember this being pretty good.

[teebee]

I swear you couldn't control the fielders in NES Baseball. You could only control where you were throwing it, used to drive me nuts because guys would make errors all over and you weren't even controlling them!

I also was so good at cheesing the cpu defense that i could get on by a single and just keep going back and forth timing the throws and make it all the way home, think i scored 50 or so runs one game doing it

[swaldo]

Haha "The MIDI soundtracks piercing" I love it. Nice article, and after hearing all this talk about 'Baseball Stars' has made me want to find a way to play it. I'm looking forward to your top five 16 & 32 bit games. On Bill Harris' blog he talks about 'World Series baseball '98' for the Sega Saturn as one of the best ever. If you do more of these articles please include that one in your nominations.

[dooz]

For me, Major League Baseball was still the best of them all. Absolute classic!

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[Cyphre]

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Haha "The MIDI soundtracks piercing" I love it. Nice article, and after hearing all this talk about 'Baseball Stars' has made me want to find a way to play it. I'm looking forward to your top five 16 & 32 bit games. On Bill Harris' blog he talks about 'World Series baseball '98' for the Sega Saturn as one of the best ever. If you do more of these articles please include that one in your nominations.

WS '98 was INDEED the baseball standard for many years in the 32-bit/CD era...although All-Star baseball for N64 and Sony's MLB '98 (YES!!!!! the very first installment of what we know as the show) gave it a ride for its money......my buddy's and I always played a league with both games (WS98 and MLB98)

[kmash2000]

I had Major League Baseball...I can't say it was my favorite NES baseball game though...I remember beating the computer 69-0 and 73-1 in a game, as well as throwing a one hitter in the World Series Mode...My favorites were Bases Loaded 1 & 2...In Bases Loaded 1, Paste had the better stats, but Bay always seemed to hit better for me and my friends...Does anyone remember Philly's Oko? He was also a beast...I didn't play it as a kid, but RBI baseball would be my preference today...

[travis72]

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I had Major League Baseball...I can't say it was my favorite NES baseball game though...I remember beating the computer 69-0 and 73-1 in a game, as well as throwing a one hitter in the World Series Mode...My favorites were Bases Loaded 1 & 2...In Bases Loaded 1, Paste had the better stats, but Bay always seemed to hit better for me and my friends...Does anyone remember Philly's Oko? He was also a beast...I didn't play it as a kid, but RBI baseball would be my preference today...

I remember Oko,lol. He was a beast. Damn this thread really brings back some good memories. I think still to this day i would prefer most of these game over 2k,lol.

[lofeazy]

I must be the only person who doesn't like RBI baseball I always thuoght it was over rated.

1)baseballstars&baseballstars2

2)baseball sim 1.000

3)little legaue baseball

4)baseload

5)dusty Diamond softball

[Araxen]

Personally I consider Baseball Stars the #1 8-bit baseball game. It had franchise mode! RBI while good didn't hold a candle to Baseball Stars, imho.

[rckabillyRaider]

I would go with Bases Loaded in the first spot. I remember some slugger, I think his name was Roko or something like that. BEAST!

I would include Little League Baseball as well. Probably the first and one of the only games where you can hit a homerun into the parking lot and watch the ball bounce around in the parking lot.

[M11x]

Baseball Stars was a gem but Baseball Stars 2 was a disappointment. I didn't know that there was a second version and was (psyched - to use the parlance of the time) to find it and just remember being extremely disappointing after the first time playing and looking into the game. I can't remember what my issues were at the time and it might not have been with gameplay as much as with restrictions or limitations outside of gameplay such as naming players or something to that effect. In Baseball Stars 1, I used to play as both teams and use the 10 run skunk rule to get the virtual money to build up my team. Baseball Stars 1 was also the game that seemed to replicate the current online gaming but instead of internet connection, everyone had to show up at a particular friends house and play against each other for hours. Fun game and my favorite 8 bit.

[cjnoles9399]

This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats. I was Jersey. I would love to go back and see those stats!

RBI stood the test of time for me. A lot of my friends in college (in the early 2000's) knew how to play that game with "dirty pitching" yet good house rules so the games were realistic and tight. We had some great double elim tournaments.

[travis72]

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This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats. I was Jersey. I would love to go back and see those stats!

RBI stood the test of time for me. A lot of my friends in college (in the early 2000's) knew how to play that game with "dirty pitching" yet good house rules so the games were realistic and tight. We had some great double elim tournaments.

I did the same thing back in the day. I had notebooks galore with stat tracking. I guess I am not the only stat geek as family and friends thought I was nuts doing this. I use to even write up little aritcles about the games,lol

[bcruise]

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This article takes me back...I used to keep a spiral notebook with my Bases Loaded stats

Off-Topic, but I used to keep a notebook to keep track of Tecmo Super Bowl injuries (since there was no record of the length of the injury in the game). So I know where you're coming from.