Any R.B.I. Baseball lovers?

[treismac]

I've been revisiting the original game tonight, and boy does it still rock after all these years! I loved it as a kid and it still brings the fun- especially the Famicom ("sorta") sequel to the original, Pro Yakyuu Famista '88, which allows you to dive for the ball and gives you the option to choose different stadiums. Anybody else play this during the summer after playing baseball in little league?

[stalepie]

I recently bought it but haven't played it before. Is it better than Bases Loaded and other baseball games of the time? I liked "'93" on the Genesis.

This review on Amazon caught my eye: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3VBT4DFH4LKXK/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B001GFJM4I&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=

I didn't realize so much detail was in this old game.

[Greg2600]

For me, I played it probably after playing NES Baseball, Bases Loaded, and MLB for days, so it kind of blended in. Fairly decent game. When Baseball Stars came out, I felt it blew the others away.
I had RBI 3 on Genesis, also an okay game.

[rdangela]

I still think its one of the best baseball game released for NES, me and some buddies did a tournment a few months ago, all had a great time. After all these years the game holds up well, there are a few good sites dedicated to it

http://dee-nee.com/rbi/

http://www.tecmobowl-vs-rbi.com/

[treismac]

Is [R.B.I. Baseball] better than Bases Loaded and other baseball games of the time?

R.B.I. Baseball and Bases Loaded are way too different baseball games to compare them to each other. RBI has cute/cartoony graphics and Bases Loaded is realistic looking. The pitcher vs. batter set-up is very different with RBI having the camera behind the batter and the reverse being the case for Bases Loaded, and Bases Loaded allows you to pitch/swing high or low while RBI does not have this feature in the game mechanics. Also, RBI has actual MLB teams and players while Bases Loaded does not.

All of this aside, R.B.I. Baseball is way more playable and fun. I thought so as a kid, and I still think so as an adult. The pitcher vs batter battle is a pain in Bases Loaded as it is hard to discern what exactly the ball is doing once it is thrown. As a kid, I always felt like I was battling the game itself rather than just my friend whenever we played the game. R.B.I. Baseball, on the other hand, was so generous with home runs at times that the game was always charged with that expectant hope or fear if you were pitching.

Once again, the games are too different to say one is better than the other, but I certainly prefer R.B.I.

[Kevincal]

i was a baseball freak and stud as a kid lmao. anyway. bases loaded II was the game the parents bought for as a kid and i freakin loved it. :) then i got a genesis and loved rbi baseball 3. love those baseball games..

[treismac]

I'm quite glad that retro sport games, by and large, aren't worth anything in the collecting world. There wasn't the thinnest trace of a tear falling from my eyes when I picked up the Japanese '87 & '88 versions of R.B.I. Baseball for $.80 each from Manuel from Famicom World. A fun sports game rocks through the ages as long as it was a fun game to begin with.

[Drixxel]

I'm quite glad that retro sport games, by and large, aren't worth anything in the collecting world. There wasn't the thinnest trace of a tear falling from my eyes when I picked up the Japanese '87 & '88 versions of R.B.I. Baseball for $.80 each from Manuel from Famicom World. A fun sports game rocks through the ages as long as it was a fun game to begin with.

Definitely. It's a genre among classic gaming that's easy to bag on ("hasn't aged well" ad naseam), but a good sports game can be as age defying as any from its era. The more arcade-y sports titles have always appealed to me, they're some of the best pick-up-and-play games around when you're strapped for time but hungry to game. On NES, I'd have to say Baseball Simulator 1.000 is my favourite over R.B.I. Baseball, the wackiness of the ultra league combined with some of the most simple & intuitive batting/pitching/fielding controls around make it a winner.

[treismac]

On NES, I'd have to say Baseball Simulator 1.000 is my favourite over R.B.I. Baseball, the wackiness of the ultra league combined with some of the most simple & intuitive batting/pitching/fielding controls around make it a winner.

Baseball Simulator 1.000 along with its Super Nintendo sequel (strangely enough named "Super Baseball Simulator 1.000") are tons of fun. They're off-beat and zany, but still a DAMN fun game of video game baseball. BaseWars, on the other hand, while still arguably a fun game, is a bit too far on the outskirts of the baseball category to be considered a baseball game. After playing the game for a while, I adopted the strategy of just trying to destroy my opponents rather than scoring more runs, since you win by forfeit if enough of the other team is blown up.

[Kevincal]

its insane how many different baseball games there are on the 8 and 16 bit systems, there are just so many. a lot on 32 bit an n64 systems too but i think they started maybe making less by then? Baseball was really popular in the 80s and early 90s but i think popularity starting dying by mid 90s.

[Drixxel]

Baseball Simulator 1.000 along with its Super Nintendo sequel (strangely enough named "Super Baseball Simulator 1.000") are tons of fun. They're off-beat and zany, but still a DAMN fun game of video game baseball. BaseWars, on the other hand, while still arguably a fun game, is a bit too far on the outskirts of the baseball category to be considered a baseball game. After playing the game for a while, I adopted the strategy of just trying to destroy my opponents rather than scoring more runs, since you win by forfeit if enough of the other team is blown up.

BaseWars is cool, but yeah, it's not exactly in the spirit of baseball. It's fun, but when I want to play a game of baseball, BaseWars doesn't exactly do it. Due to how far it exaggerates the sport, I'm inclined to compare it more to something like Windjammers or Super Dodge Ball.

Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, awesome game. As a wee lad, I was fortunate enough to have a friend that owned it and we played it all the time. Only recently was I reminded, after feeling inspired to look a bit into the history of Culture Brain, that there were a handful of SFC sequels on top of it. It's also kind of rad how much the box art, with its action composite / hand paintedness, resembles something from the Atari 2600 days.

http://www.retrogameguide.com/images/box_art_and_carts/SNES-super-baseball-simulator-1000_front.jpg

[retroman]

it gets pulled out every once in awhile..As a kid my uncle and i would play it a few times every week...Now just for old time sakes, when my uncle is in town which is maybe 2 to 3 times a year, it gets pulled out and we play head to head...My point is it is still a good 2player game...Single player gets old real fast.

[treismac]

It's also kind of rad how much the box art, with its action composite / hand paintedness, resembles something from the Atari 2600 days.

http://www.retrogameguide.com/images/box_art_and_carts/SNES-super-baseball-simulator-1000_front.jpg

Good call.