My buddy brought the original NES Baseball game to life ! He kept stats! I will never forget it ...got me into it too..Had every stat imaginable....He even picked an ALL STAR Team at the half way point and wrote his selections on poster board and hung them on his door....Played the all star game out too......I bet we were only ones in the world doing this....same kid had the Tecmo Plays written in a notebook and would study them at night lol
Not gonna lie.... I clicked on this video saying ..."if this guy doesn't have R.B.I. Baseball as #1, gonna give him a thumbs down!"...... here's a thumbs up.... greatest baseball game ever (All Star 99 on N64 a close second).
I had the a very similar inner dialogue as I clicked to watch this video. After he reviewed/ranked the first four, I was getting a bit disappointed....THEN.... Well...lol
RBI baseball sucked to me. Friends had it, I never did. Everyone was fat ass it seemed. MLB Baseball was better than RBI, and Baseball Stars was probably the best for NES
I agree with RBI Baseball being number one, but I was blown away by MLB The Show 09 on the PS3 but for sheer arcade-like fun, RBI will always be tops in my book.
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was a game by Culture Brain that had lots of replay value and had a battery inside to save your season. Ability to create a team was great and the different ball park venues were fun - mercy rule was in effect and you could win the game against the computer if you built your roster correctly. Power-ups in games weren't pure but it was fun. Music in the game wasn't bad either. I also liked that it allowed you to skip other team games you weren't involved in or watch them as the computer ran the simulations. It was true baseball entertainment.
Always loved Baseball Simulator 1.000 myself for the in depth season mode and the option to play games with Ultra plays which was like baseball between super heroes.
@@cbake76 Oh yes! I played the Hell out of that game way back when. I think my favorite was a Sega baseball game, where you could buy souped up robots, but the only home run available was to center. I forget the name, but we played the Hell out of that one.
@@Fecalage If it was something on Genesis, you're probably thinking of EA's Super Baseball 2020, which was actually originally a Neo Geo game from SNK. The real-life 2020 season would have actually been perfect for robot baseball! :-)
Baseball Stars has got to be the greatest news baseball game. It was probably the most groundbreaking baseball game of all time. First game to keep track of stats, also first where you can make and name ur own team . You could make money winning games to power up ur players. Lastly the field perspective would scroll to the outfield on balls hit. Before that all field views were a static wide shot of the whole field
Baseball Stars was my all time favorite, Me and me three friends created a Team with all of our friends in the team, and we passed around the controller whenever we were up to bat. We only played the game when the four of us got together, We really liked how as you won games, you earned money and could improve your players. Even now decades later when we get together we still talk about this game
I spent a summer playing Baseball Stars. If you played a game against yourself in tournament mode, you would win prize money. So I would ten run mercy myself against the girl's team or the American Dreams. It was a bit of a hack that allowed you to earn big $ in a matter of minutes. If you did that enough times you could stack your team with stars. Other little hacks included buying rookies with high potential (90 points) and turning them into players with maxed out stats by using that money. Since upgrading your players points was randomized (one to six) points, you only saved the game when you received higher points. My team had all superstar players with 89/90 points.
I did the same except it was for 3 summers in a row (all through Little League) starting basically on the first weekend of Little League. The team with the most Prestige was the Lovely Ladies. You could usually beat them with a decent created team. Make 5 teams and put all the 90 attribute players on your squad. The hack was to have the 2nd controller pick first, so your prospect wouldn't lose any attribute points in the trade. The only reason this game isn't my all-time favorite game ever is that one screw-up without holding in RESET would delete your entire save game. I can remember almost crying as a 10-year-old boy coming home and seeing my younger cousin playing Baseball Stars on my NES, knowing that his lack of understanding of the power saving function deleted my create a team...it still breaks my heart when I took the controller only to see the blank spaces where my create a team should have been. Most of my friends preferred Little League World Series, but I think that was only because you could pick your State (and hopefully they were good).
Same here. Had a superstar team called the Renegades, eventually every player was maxed out at at least 88 points. Then I would use them in season mode. In order to avoid the 10-run mercy rule, I would have one or two pitchers that their sole job, was to hit batter after batter on the opposing team, to force in enough runs where I could play another inning and get more chances at HR/RBI.
Ditto. I had some jacked up teams on that game. The old NES where you made sure to hold the reset button down when you hit the power button to keep from possibly losing all of your saves
Good fielder, had a good 1987 season but his hitting fell off afterwards. I'm actually surprised he didn't have a longer career since he had a good glove and could field multiple positions.
Baseball Stars was such a great game. The worst part though is when you turned on the game and all the saved teams you personally built were POOF GONE!! Broke my heart.
I loved Bases Loaded because the graphics were great and it was one of the first games with the play perspective behind the pitcher like watching on TV, so cool!
I learned one great tip and used it against my next door neighbor: when the cleanup hitter gets tossed, press select and he stays in the game! I never tipped my hand and always played it off as a fluke. He could never figure out why that only worked for me.
Great list. Baseball Simulator 1.000 was another fun one with all the power ups. I actually preferred RBI 2 to the first. Three of my friends and I had leagues with that game where we kept stats in a notebook. Bad News is so underrated. Because Baseball Stars and Little League were both SNK they were very similar. I remember the big difference being that in LL you could jump on defense but couldn't in BS, but as you noted, you could climb the wall in BS and not in LL. I had no problems hitting HRs in LL by the way and definitely robbed a few HRs by climbing the wall in BS. My best friend got Bad News and Baseball Simulator for his birthday one year and we played both games all day and all night. We finally realized the sun was coming up and had to finally get some sleep. Ha.
@@learenng1267 dude, you brought up Paste!!! That's awesome! Forgive me if I'm wrong, but he was the #3 hitter for Jersey that crushed. I believe Bay followed him in the cleanup spot and also crushed. Am I wrong on this one? It was my favorite game back in the day, and I used that team almost exclusively
Original NES Baseball was one of my favorites. I was the Cardinals. Other friends picked different teams....We used to use notebook paper and create lineups (with the MLB players) and keep stats. Had an entire folder of stats and box scores etc. Good times !
You left out Baseball Simulator 1.000 which is easily my favorite. It had customized teams and players and kept season statistics. It was way ahead of its time unlike the games you picked.
Baseball Stars was the greatest baseball game on the NES hands down. You could create a player and actually level him up long before The Show and others came about.
Baseball simulator I think was the best. There were like 8 different stadiums you could choose from and you could make your own player's building their attributes.
For me, Bad News Baseball is the best by far! My cousins and I still play it to this very day. Thirty three years later and counting. It’s bigtime fun, the music is catchy and there is never a dull moment playing it. Awesome game!
Hell yeah, good ole Bases Loaded! Loved it. And Baseball Stars was way ahead of its time. Watching this video was like hopping in a time machine because of your comments.
Love RBI! As a Detroiter I always go with the Tigers. Trammel, Gibson, Sweet Lou, Chet Lemon, Darrel Evans, Jack Morris, Willie Hernandez, Doyle Alexander..etc. (Alexander had a great year in 88 but we gave up a young pitcher named John Smoltz, a Michigan native. Of course no one could anticipate Smoltz becoming a HOFer...hindsight is def 20/20 haha) I was 3mo old when the Tigers won it in 84 but I still remember my first game at old Tiger Stadium. Walking across the catwalk n lookin down on the lower deck crowd, sitting in the bleachers and seeing that HUGE outfield, all that beautiful green grass and the sun hitting the blue and orange seats. The best was sitting in left or right field in the upper deck, it would hang over the lower deck so you couldnt see if a ball was caught, a gap shot or a HR until you heard the crowd. Loved going down to Michigan and Trumbull in Corktown w the original cobble stone street still there. I was 5 years old and the Tigers were past their run, def a shame that they couldn't get to or win the Series one more time. Damn you Blue Jay's and Twins lol. Remember kids, back then you had 2 divisions in each league. East and West and the AL East in the late 80s was LOADED. Tigers, Blue Jay's, Twins, Red Sox...Hall of Famers all over those rosters. If you're too young or never saw a game at Tiger Stadium I highly recommend looking up vids on RUclips or pics, vids online. Great old ballpark. CF was like 445ft lol. 50,000+ seat capacity. Dudes blasting balls OUT OF THE PARK, literally, I saw Cecil Fielder bomb a ball over the roof. They say Mantle hit one something stupid long that landed in a lumber yard across the street back in the late 50s early 60s. Like 500+ feet...dude was probably hung over when he did it too lmao ruclips.net/video/qrSgfO-bUNA/видео.html
Hahaha, I think it's awesome that kids that probably lived hundreds of miles away from each other had the same experiences. That bait in RBI was awesome. I would get my younger brother all the time with that. Thanks for the nostalgia kick.
Right🙂We used to spend so much time throwing the ball around the infield after a simple single trying to bait each other. Good times. The worst was when they actually advanced a base or even scored.
Based loaded II is underrated and was my jam. I used to use Hawaii as my team every time. I can almost recall some of the names. Fuller was definitely one. I recall a player named something like Suelze??? Now I must figure out the rest
Al Pedrique is now the Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Pedrique was signed by the New York Mets in 1978 and made his debut nine years later. After five games with the team, he hit .301 with the Pirates in his rookie season, but only managed a .188 cumulative batting average after that. Pedrique was a career .247 hitter with one home run, 36 runs batted in (RBI), 32 runs, 18 doubles, one triple, and five stolen bases in 174 games.
Bad News Baseball is such a gem. I played the dog out of it, and Tecmo Baseball with my Dad growing up. Tecmo was on fire on the NES. Any of their sports games were top notch. I always felt safe buying a Tecmo game regardless of the subject matter.
I remember playing RBI Baseball as a stand up arcade game before work with my best friend. I was banned from playing Oakland due to the bash bros. But Baseball Stars is, in my opinion, the greatest NES baseball game. To me, it is RBI Baseball on steroids. The ability to have a 6 team league with a total of 125 games each(25 vs each opponent) AND have those players grow was unheard of in the early 90s. You said it was a great solo game but to me it was an even better game to play with friends. Getting a group of 6 people to play once a week was a major highlight to my gaming experience. Also, those wall catches are possible along with some great diving and jumping plays as players gain skill points.
I had no idea that RBI was a stand alone arcade machine. While you make a convincing argument for the merits of Baseball Stars being a superior baseball game, for me and my younger self, RBI Baseball holds the number one spot. Thanks for sharing those great gaming memories.
@@naturalborncritic2052 I have an almost identical list to yours. Numbers 1 and 2 are on point. I think I would replace Little League Baseball with Baseball Simulator 1.000 though. But that RBI arcade cabinet is second to NBA Jam of my all time favorites. It was called "Vs. R.B.I. Baseball", as in "Versus R.B.I. Baseball". The team selection is different and plays just a tiny bit differently.
SNK all stars was my favorite. I had Roger Clemens baseball which was my last game ever bought for me during Xmas that year. I had PlayStation games but never had as much fun as RBI baseball.
We played Roger Clemens MVP a lot as it had a 3d aspect and close up plays. Had fun one summer and the little brother of my friend cried when he lost. Baseball was all i cared about as a kid and i did rent all the nes bb games. And i'm not even american
I loved little league world series and Legends Of The Diamond. Getting to play as mythical baseball stars like Dizzy Dean was really cool to me as a kid. Legends Of The Diamond was my favorite. Both those games along with Roger clemens baseball were great in there time
6:45 The #8 batter "Pedriq" is Al Pedrique, who had a short career with Pittsburgh in the late 80s. I haven't thought of that name in about thirty years. He played in the minors for a few years in the 90s but never made it back to the major leagues.
Good list.. I have baseball stars #1, it was just so innovative and ahead of its time, also baseball simulator 1000 is in my top 5 along with little league baseball, RBI baseball and MLB baseball.
Bad News Baseball is my favorite in the genre, and is largely forgotten. Bean balls were a fun part of that game. The issue I see with the Little League game is a matter of scale. I'm guessing the developers compromised by making home runs rare, but keeping the field dimensions. Perhaps they thought a 60 foot diamond and short fences would not be appealing? I would think the opposite when one considers all the other baseball options out there.
Honorable Mention: World Series Baseball for the Intellivision Computer System...sure it pre-dates the NES games by about 5 years...but it was groundbreaking. The TV camera angles...the picture-in-picture for runners on base...and play-by-play voice on IntelliVoice. But if we're strictly talking NES...then yes...Baseball Stars was the best. The ability to run a league where it kept all the info after you turned it off was mind-blowing at the time. Plus the way it kept stats was amazing...batting averages were tracked and changed every time the player stepped to the plate.
I miss this time in games where companies would take a chance making something different. At one point in time I collected every NES baseball game and I believe there is over 20. I have since sold them, but it truly was the best system for fun baseball games. You can add Dusty Diamond's all star softball, Base Wars, and baseball simulator 1.000 to the list of the most fun baseball games of all time.
Great list!!!!!! 2 and 1 in that order were/are my absolute favorites. I remember as a kid going to play out baseball game. Pausing the game and turning off the TV so my parents thought I turned it all off.
You’re clearly playing with the wrong team in LL baseball game. Play with a different team and it can turn into a home run derby. I actually always appreciates that runs came in a variety of ways in that game, so it felt authentic.
You have it perfect with RBI baseball. I must say I would rate Baseball Simulator just above that one. It gave the ability to not only construct a team but you had limited statistics. We used to use baseball cards and do drafts and put those players in the game.....truly ahead of its time.
I bought NES 22 years ago just so I could play baseball stars again. Baseball stars 2 is also awesome the free agent market is great. And RBI 3 was one of my favourites also
I was at university in The States when RBI Baseball game out; my American mates and I played it all the time in the dorm and for sheer fun, I think it's the best video baseball game ever on any platform. One of my mates dad pitched in MLB for years and was actually in the game! I still play this occassionally on my emulator but it's not nearly as much fun playing against the computer.
RBI was my favorite, until Baseball Simulator came along. Simulator was the best because you could edit players and create real current teams, and play a full season and it remembered stats. Incredible game for its day.
Little league was the best. Brother and I would fight over Canada, best team in the game. But if you can win with Italy, you was a beast...i never could lol
Bad News Baseball was my favorite. Fast paced, addicting music, hitting bombs.. Doug , the leadoff hitter for Toronto, was pure money. Fastest player in the game. Bunt single, steal 2nd and 3rd, then sacrifice him home. Automatic run when he led off the inning. We would play that all day lol
Baseball Stars should be #1.....That game was awesome how you could build your own team and upgrade players. That is until the game didn't get shut down properly and you lost all your data!!!! Heartbreaking I still remember that feeling!
Baseball Stars was my addiction. I remember one time I played my best game against the American Dreams 3-1 and I was the California Angels. I sweat so hard during that game because the American Dreams was tough.
Great to see Little League Baseball on here! IMO this is the best baseball game on NES. My dad, brother and I played as kids in the late 80s early 90s and still play it today. My dad and I literally played just this past Sunday. It has spawned into another generation as my nephew plays it now also. Mexico is best hitting team and Canada is the best overall squad. Love your video btw
The SNK games had the best "physics" for fielding, throwing, and baserunning. I honestly believe Little League Championship Series is the best because it only takes 15 minutes to complete a game.
Good to see so many people on Al Pedrique. I had his 1988 Topps card with the All-Star Rookie trophy, and since I was 7, I assumed that meant Pedrique was a big deal. So, seeing him on a video game all-star team didn't phase me at all.
6:45...That's a guy named Al Pedrique. He played 174 games at shortstop, mostly for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He never made All-Star in real life. Ozzie Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals was the starting shortstop for the National League in the All-Star game in 1987. Since Ozzie Smith is in the game it leads me to believe the developer accidentally screwed up the NL All-Star roster & no one caught it.
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Baseball Stars is my favorite game of all time.
we had rosters with buddies names ..shit was fun as hell
the amount of hours i played baseball stars....I even had a pc emulator of it years later. It was by far the best baseball game on NES bar none
For sure!!!! That little league game he showed reminded of baseball stars ... blacksox were 2nd best to the all star team with cy young
The. Best.
Great game and easy to play.
My buddy brought the original NES Baseball game to life ! He kept stats! I will never forget it ...got me into it too..Had every stat imaginable....He even picked an ALL STAR Team at the half way point and wrote his selections on poster board and hung them on his door....Played the all star game out too......I bet we were only ones in the world doing this....same kid had the Tecmo Plays written in a notebook and would study them at night lol
Fkn genius!
Not gonna lie.... I clicked on this video saying ..."if this guy doesn't have R.B.I. Baseball as #1, gonna give him a thumbs down!"...... here's a thumbs up.... greatest baseball game ever (All Star 99 on N64 a close second).
No
I had the a very similar inner dialogue as I clicked to watch this video. After he reviewed/ranked the first four, I was getting a bit disappointed....THEN....
Well...lol
RBI baseball sucked to me. Friends had it, I never did. Everyone was fat ass it seemed. MLB Baseball was better than RBI, and Baseball Stars was probably the best for NES
I agree with RBI Baseball being number one, but I was blown away by MLB The Show 09 on the PS3 but for sheer arcade-like fun, RBI will always be tops in my book.
That was a great game as was Baseball Stars
Baseball Simulator 1.000 for NES is by far
the best baseball game I have ever played on any platform.
Same here!!!
Absouletely!
Agreed...
Good tastes right here...
Love baseball simulator 1.000 . Still have some classic battles with my son with some gambling involved 😀
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was a game by Culture Brain that had lots of replay value and had a battery inside to save your season. Ability to create a team was great and the different ball park venues were fun - mercy rule was in effect and you could win the game against the computer if you built your roster correctly. Power-ups in games weren't pure but it was fun. Music in the game wasn't bad either. I also liked that it allowed you to skip other team games you weren't involved in or watch them as the computer ran the simulations. It was true baseball entertainment.
Always loved Baseball Simulator 1.000 myself for the in depth season mode and the option to play games with Ultra plays which was like baseball between super heroes.
Yeah, that's my No. 1. Fun list, though.
Was that the one where you could add power ups to hitters? Like the ball laser beaming to the wall, or an earthquake when it hits the ground?
@@Fecalage Yep, that's the one! It's easy to forget it was also a very solid "normal" NES baseball game, and you had fantastic customization options.
@@cbake76 Oh yes! I played the Hell out of that game way back when. I think my favorite was a Sega baseball game, where you could buy souped up robots, but the only home run available was to center. I forget the name, but we played the Hell out of that one.
@@Fecalage If it was something on Genesis, you're probably thinking of EA's Super Baseball 2020, which was actually originally a Neo Geo game from SNK. The real-life 2020 season would have actually been perfect for robot baseball! :-)
I wholeheartedly agree about “RBI Baseball” being the best NES Baseball Game. I still have that video game music in my head all these years later.
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was great too
I was waiting for it to appear in the video.
Baseball Stars has got to be the greatest news baseball game. It was probably the most groundbreaking baseball game of all time. First game to keep track of stats, also first where you can make and name ur own team . You could make money winning games to power up ur players. Lastly the field perspective would scroll to the outfield on balls hit. Before that all field views were a static wide shot of the whole field
Baseball Stars allll the way. So fun building a team, pumping them up, graphics were awesome, music, climb the fence, everything.
Only baseball stars
Same! I remember that if your third baseman had a weak arm, you were in for a long day.
@@MrKastaway66 You just needed to put whoever on your team had the most defense at 3rd.
@@hattrick2327 Very true. Then pitch inside, outside, inside and you could either jam them or strike them out.
And I wish this game were available for PS2 or as an app!
It’s not really a “proper” baseball game, but big shoutout to Base Wars. That game was amazing!
Was going to comment the same thing, should have been replaced for bases loaded.
I came here just to see if Base Wars was on the list. I guess not
RBI Baseball will forever be my favorite baseball game.
Baseball Stars was my all time favorite, Me and me three friends created a Team with all of our friends in the team, and we passed around the controller whenever we were up to bat.
We only played the game when the four of us got together, We really liked how as you won games, you earned money and could improve your players. Even now decades later when we get together we still talk about this game
baseball simulator 1.000 was my favorite
Base Wars on NES and Super Bases Loaded on the SNES were such big parts of my childhood!
I agree I used to play with Boston on bases loaded
Stellar list. Bad News Baseball looks great, never tried that one. NES sports games are such nostalgia.
Baseball Stars was my favorite. Blackbox baseball brings back alot of memories too.
Nice! I will never forget baseball stars
+Jp Steckel A true classic.
+Jp Steckel Thanks, one of the best.
Absoulete classic
I spent a summer playing Baseball Stars. If you played a game against yourself in tournament mode, you would win prize money. So I would ten run mercy myself against the girl's team or the American Dreams. It was a bit of a hack that allowed you to earn big $ in a matter of minutes. If you did that enough times you could stack your team with stars. Other little hacks included buying rookies with high potential (90 points) and turning them into players with maxed out stats by using that money. Since upgrading your players points was randomized (one to six) points, you only saved the game when you received higher points. My team had all superstar players with 89/90 points.
I did the same except it was for 3 summers in a row (all through Little League) starting basically on the first weekend of Little League. The team with the most Prestige was the Lovely Ladies. You could usually beat them with a decent created team. Make 5 teams and put all the 90 attribute players on your squad. The hack was to have the 2nd controller pick first, so your prospect wouldn't lose any attribute points in the trade.
The only reason this game isn't my all-time favorite game ever is that one screw-up without holding in RESET would delete your entire save game. I can remember almost crying as a 10-year-old boy coming home and seeing my younger cousin playing Baseball Stars on my NES, knowing that his lack of understanding of the power saving function deleted my create a team...it still breaks my heart when I took the controller only to see the blank spaces where my create a team should have been. Most of my friends preferred Little League World Series, but I think that was only because you could pick your State (and hopefully they were good).
Same here. Had a superstar team called the Renegades, eventually every player was maxed out at at least 88 points. Then I would use them in season mode. In order to avoid the 10-run mercy rule, I would have one or two pitchers that their sole job, was to hit batter after batter on the opposing team, to force in enough runs where I could play another inning and get more chances at HR/RBI.
Ditto. I had some jacked up teams on that game. The old NES where you made sure to hold the reset button down when you hit the power button to keep from possibly losing all of your saves
Like, my pitchers were yoked up HR machines
American Dreams are loaded.
Baseball Simulator 1,000 or 2,000 can’t remember 🤷♂️ was also a great baseball game.
I remember Baseball Simulator 1000.
Playing the stadium on the moon. Balls would fly out of there.
Baseball Simulator 1000 was definitely the best one. Tons of good teams for an 8 bit system.
What was so great, was how it kept stats. My Dad, bro, and myself had our own teams and we played 162 game seasons.
Baseball Simulator 1000 for sure
Bad News baseball was always my favorite growing up.
I think Al Pedrique was a light hitting middle infielder. Total spare.
Pirates and Yankees I think
Good fielder, had a good 1987 season but his hitting fell off afterwards. I'm actually surprised he didn't have a longer career since he had a good glove and could field multiple positions.
He also coached the Dbacks for a bit in 2004 and went 22-61
Yup, Pirates.
That's exactly who it was
Baseball Stars was such a great game. The worst part though is when you turned on the game and all the saved teams you personally built were POOF GONE!! Broke my heart.
Bad News Baseball was my favorite. The music was great.
Baseball Simulator ⚾️ 🧢 bad ass game, Red and blue ultra league team are HOF players, RBI baseball the computer was vicious
I loved Bases Loaded because the graphics were great and it was one of the first games with the play perspective behind the pitcher like watching on TV, so cool!
Dusty Diamonds All Star Softball 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Suprised i didn't see it on the list. That was a blast to play
I think it was Rocky or Sparky who had a freaking cannon of an arm!!
@@GarageGolf sparky
@@terribleclimber.6867 Sparky was the man!!
Best game!
The best part of Bases Loaded was beaning the cleanup hitter and causing a brawl
I learned one great tip and used it against my next door neighbor: when the cleanup hitter gets tossed, press select and he stays in the game! I never tipped my hand and always played it off as a fluke. He could never figure out why that only worked for me.
That would cause actual fights when we did it. LOL It got to the point where we'd swing at anything just to avoid the HBP.
Norkus was a beast! Lol.
Great list. Baseball Simulator 1.000 was another fun one with all the power ups. I actually preferred RBI 2 to the first. Three of my friends and I had leagues with that game where we kept stats in a notebook. Bad News is so underrated. Because Baseball Stars and Little League were both SNK they were very similar. I remember the big difference being that in LL you could jump on defense but couldn't in BS, but as you noted, you could climb the wall in BS and not in LL. I had no problems hitting HRs in LL by the way and definitely robbed a few HRs by climbing the wall in BS. My best friend got Bad News and Baseball Simulator for his birthday one year and we played both games all day and all night. We finally realized the sun was coming up and had to finally get some sleep. Ha.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing🙂
Baseball Simulator? That has to be on the list.
That was SNES! Baseball simulator 1.000 was the best ever!!!!
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was definitely on the NES. Very in depth game.
I just liked Bases loaded because you can charge the mound when hit by a pitch
Spent a lot of time doing that.
don’t forget about Paste 💪🏾
@@learenng1267 dude, you brought up Paste!!! That's awesome! Forgive me if I'm wrong, but he was the #3 hitter for Jersey that crushed. I believe Bay followed him in the cleanup spot and also crushed. Am I wrong on this one? It was my favorite game back in the day, and I used that team almost exclusively
@@chriskeck3689 haha yeah man...that guy was almost guranteed to hit a homer every at bat! don’t sleep on becker and bay too haha
Original NES Baseball was one of my favorites. I was the Cardinals. Other friends picked different teams....We used to use notebook paper and create lineups (with the MLB players) and keep stats. Had an entire folder of stats and box scores etc. Good times !
You left out Baseball Simulator 1.000 which is easily my favorite. It had customized teams and players and kept season statistics. It was way ahead of its time unlike the games you picked.
Baseball Stars was the greatest baseball game on the NES hands down. You could create a player and actually level him up long before The Show and others came about.
And it saved all the info on the cartridge which was highly unusual at the time I think.
Baseball simulator I think was the best. There were like 8 different stadiums you could choose from and you could make your own player's building their attributes.
For me, Bad News Baseball is the best by far! My cousins and I still play it to this very day. Thirty three years later and counting. It’s bigtime fun, the music is catchy and there is never a dull moment playing it. Awesome game!
we seem similar ages - i was born in 79. nice to see an actual adult reviewing NES games!
We are similar in ages indeed. Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Hell yeah, good ole Bases Loaded! Loved it. And Baseball Stars was way ahead of its time. Watching this video was like hopping in a time machine because of your comments.
Spot on about baseball games being the original trash talk games before fighting games came on the scene! Dusty Diamonds honorable mention.
I loved Baseball Simulator 1.000 and Bases loaded. I think Bases loaded was the first baseball game where you can rush the mound and fight. lol
Love RBI! As a Detroiter I always go with the Tigers. Trammel, Gibson, Sweet Lou, Chet Lemon, Darrel Evans, Jack Morris, Willie Hernandez, Doyle Alexander..etc. (Alexander had a great year in 88 but we gave up a young pitcher named John Smoltz, a Michigan native. Of course no one could anticipate Smoltz becoming a HOFer...hindsight is def 20/20 haha)
I was 3mo old when the Tigers won it in 84 but I still remember my first game at old Tiger Stadium. Walking across the catwalk n lookin down on the lower deck crowd, sitting in the bleachers and seeing that HUGE outfield, all that beautiful green grass and the sun hitting the blue and orange seats. The best was sitting in left or right field in the upper deck, it would hang over the lower deck so you couldnt see if a ball was caught, a gap shot or a HR until you heard the crowd.
Loved going down to Michigan and Trumbull in Corktown w the original cobble stone street still there. I was 5 years old and the Tigers were past their run, def a shame that they couldn't get to or win the Series one more time. Damn you Blue Jay's and Twins lol.
Remember kids, back then you had 2 divisions in each league. East and West and the AL East in the late 80s was LOADED. Tigers, Blue Jay's, Twins, Red Sox...Hall of Famers all over those rosters.
If you're too young or never saw a game at Tiger Stadium I highly recommend looking up vids on RUclips or pics, vids online. Great old ballpark. CF was like 445ft lol. 50,000+ seat capacity. Dudes blasting balls OUT OF THE PARK, literally, I saw Cecil Fielder bomb a ball over the roof. They say Mantle hit one something stupid long that landed in a lumber yard across the street back in the late 50s early 60s. Like 500+ feet...dude was probably hung over when he did it too lmao
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Hahaha, I think it's awesome that kids that probably lived hundreds of miles away from each other had the same experiences. That bait in RBI was awesome. I would get my younger brother all the time with that. Thanks for the nostalgia kick.
Right🙂We used to spend so much time throwing the ball around the infield after a simple single trying to bait each other. Good times. The worst was when they actually advanced a base or even scored.
Roger Clemens MVP was my favorite back then. Hours and hours on that thing!
The memories this brought back. I remember playing these as a kid as well. Great video.
Thanks🙂
RBI baseball with the players names sold me as a kid. This was definitely my favorite.
RBI 3 was my favorite game. Played it all day.
Bases Loaded II, RBI Baseball and Baseball Stars were my favorites. Reggie Jackson Baseball on Sega Master System was fun.
Based loaded II is underrated and was my jam. I used to use Hawaii as my team every time. I can almost recall some of the names. Fuller was definitely one. I recall a player named something like Suelze??? Now I must figure out the rest
Al Pedrique is now the Manager of the Oakland Athletics.
Pedrique was signed by the New York Mets in 1978 and made his debut nine years later. After five games with the team, he hit .301 with the Pirates in his rookie season, but only managed a .188 cumulative batting average after that.
Pedrique was a career .247 hitter with one home run, 36 runs batted in (RBI), 32 runs, 18 doubles, one triple, and five stolen bases in 174 games.
He's the first base coach.
Bad News Baseball is such a gem. I played the dog out of it, and Tecmo Baseball with my Dad growing up. Tecmo was on fire on the NES. Any of their sports games were top notch. I always felt safe buying a Tecmo game regardless of the subject matter.
"Look at that opposite field power"....hilarious. This took me back
I remember playing RBI Baseball as a stand up arcade game before work with my best friend. I was banned from playing Oakland due to the bash bros. But Baseball Stars is, in my opinion, the greatest NES baseball game. To me, it is RBI Baseball on steroids. The ability to have a 6 team league with a total of 125 games each(25 vs each opponent) AND have those players grow was unheard of in the early 90s. You said it was a great solo game but to me it was an even better game to play with friends. Getting a group of 6 people to play once a week was a major highlight to my gaming experience. Also, those wall catches are possible along with some great diving and jumping plays as players gain skill points.
I had no idea that RBI was a stand alone arcade machine. While you make a convincing argument for the merits of Baseball Stars being a superior baseball game, for me and my younger self, RBI Baseball holds the number one spot. Thanks for sharing those great gaming memories.
@@naturalborncritic2052 I have an almost identical list to yours. Numbers 1 and 2 are on point. I think I would replace Little League Baseball with Baseball Simulator 1.000 though. But that RBI arcade cabinet is second to NBA Jam of my all time favorites. It was called "Vs. R.B.I. Baseball", as in "Versus R.B.I. Baseball". The team selection is different and plays just a tiny bit differently.
Baseball Stars is considered one of the best baseball video games of all time. I love both RBI and Little League as well. Great list!
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Basewars was a blast to play back in the day
SNK all stars was my favorite. I had Roger Clemens baseball which was my last game ever bought for me during Xmas that year. I had PlayStation games but never had as much fun as RBI baseball.
Baseball Stars was the best one ever....period.
We played Roger Clemens MVP a lot as it had a 3d aspect and close up plays. Had fun one summer and the little brother of my friend cried when he lost.
Baseball was all i cared about as a kid and i did rent all the nes bb games. And i'm not even american
I loved little league world series and Legends Of The Diamond. Getting to play as mythical baseball stars like Dizzy Dean was really cool to me as a kid. Legends Of The Diamond was my favorite. Both those games along with Roger clemens baseball were great in there time
6:45 The #8 batter "Pedriq" is Al Pedrique, who had a short career with Pittsburgh in the late 80s. I haven't thought of that name in about thirty years. He played in the minors for a few years in the 90s but never made it back to the major leagues.
I played every one of these games. No telling how many hours of my childhood I put in to these. Brings back memories.
Good list.. I have baseball stars #1, it was just so innovative and ahead of its time, also baseball simulator 1000 is in my top 5 along with little league baseball, RBI baseball and MLB baseball.
RBI baseball was my jam!
Still play it a couple time a year with my friend
Baseball Stars was clearly the best ever.
Good picks. Bases Loaded was my favorite, but RBI definitely my #2
I loved RBI. Totally my favorite game for years.
Great vid! Honorable mention: Baseball Simulator 1.000. Good #1!
Bad News Baseball is my favorite in the genre, and is largely forgotten. Bean balls were a fun part of that game. The issue I see with the Little League game is a matter of scale. I'm guessing the developers compromised by making home runs rare, but keeping the field dimensions. Perhaps they thought a 60 foot diamond and short fences would not be appealing? I would think the opposite when one considers all the other baseball options out there.
Bad News Baseball was the best. Gameplay was above and beyond better than any other nes baseball game.
Baseball Stars was my favorite NES baseball game! For computer I loved Micro League Baseball for my Atari 800xl
BASEBALL STARS was one of the BEST games ever! PERIOD!!
Underrated? It was probably the most popular baseball game on the console.
Honorable Mention: World Series Baseball for the Intellivision Computer System...sure it pre-dates the NES games by about 5 years...but it was groundbreaking. The TV camera angles...the picture-in-picture for runners on base...and play-by-play voice on IntelliVoice. But if we're strictly talking NES...then yes...Baseball Stars was the best. The ability to run a league where it kept all the info after you turned it off was mind-blowing at the time. Plus the way it kept stats was amazing...batting averages were tracked and changed every time the player stepped to the plate.
I miss this time in games where companies would take a chance making something different. At one point in time I collected every NES baseball game and I believe there is over 20. I have since sold them, but it truly was the best system for fun baseball games. You can add Dusty Diamond's all star softball, Base Wars, and baseball simulator 1.000 to the list of the most fun baseball games of all time.
Great list!!!!!! 2 and 1 in that order were/are my absolute favorites. I remember as a kid going to play out baseball game. Pausing the game and turning off the TV so my parents thought I turned it all off.
Both of those SNK games were a blast to play
Baseball stars had several names that if you used your character would be loaded. It was amazing finding that as a kid by punching in famous names.
You’re clearly playing with the wrong team in LL baseball game. Play with a different team and it can turn into a home run derby. I actually always appreciates that runs came in a variety of ways in that game, so it felt authentic.
Bases loaded was my favorite but to each their own
Baseball stars was great
You have it perfect with RBI baseball. I must say I would rate Baseball Simulator just above that one. It gave the ability to not only construct a team but you had limited statistics. We used to use baseball cards and do drafts and put those players in the game.....truly ahead of its time.
I bought NES 22 years ago just so I could play baseball stars again. Baseball stars 2 is also awesome the free agent market is great. And RBI 3 was one of my favourites also
You're not the first person to mention RBI 3.
This is best RUclips down load ever.
Still to this day Baseball Stars is the best baseball game in my opinion. Wish you could play this online.
There's a game I remember I think playing as a kid called Major League baseball. I'm pretty sure that's the name of it and I loved it
I was at university in The States when RBI Baseball game out; my American mates and I played it all the time in the dorm and for sheer fun, I think it's the best video baseball game ever on any platform. One of my mates dad pitched in MLB for years and was actually in the game! I still play this occassionally on my emulator but it's not nearly as much fun playing against the computer.
The catcher for RBI baseball AL All Stars was Bill Schroeder of the Brewers. His NL counterpart was Benito Santiago.
RBI was my favorite, until Baseball Simulator came along. Simulator was the best because you could edit players and create real current teams, and play a full season and it remembered stats. Incredible game for its day.
Fond memories playing with my dad and brother growing up. Lots of hours on that game.
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was my favorite by far.
Little league was the best. Brother and I would fight over Canada, best team in the game. But if you can win with Italy, you was a beast...i never could lol
As a Canadian, this will forever be my favourite baseball game. Peter was Babe Ruth with maple syrup.
@@adamwelsh6694 👍im from ohio and cleveland is my team and i destroyed with Albert. I alway said Albert Bell is up.
@@scottharris9526 What a one-two punch
Fred was straight up baller! I’m pretty sure he would hit like .900 with 2 bombs per game!
Has anybody ever beat that game with italy. They're so slow and their defense was shit
Bad news baseball & RBI was the best growing up !!
@El Padre con Verga Larga , that was the bomb.
Bad News Baseball was my favorite. Fast paced, addicting music, hitting bombs.. Doug , the leadoff hitter for Toronto, was pure money. Fastest player in the game. Bunt single, steal 2nd and 3rd, then sacrifice him home. Automatic run when he led off the inning. We would play that all day lol
Baseball Stars was soooooooo good. You have to put that next to Tecmo Bowl. Bases Loaded was good too.
Baseball Stars should be #1.....That game was awesome how you could build your own team and upgrade players. That is until the game didn't get shut down properly and you lost all your data!!!! Heartbreaking I still remember that feeling!
I use to love a game called Legends of The Diamond by Ban Dai. It had all legendary players like Ruth, Aaron, Cobb, and so on.
never was able to rob a homerun on baseball stars but falling on other side of fence made me laugh so hard
Al Pedrique, Pirates. Now a coach.
Wow, good job. I never heard of him.
@@rdesi78 he had one good year as a rookie in 1987 and did nothing after that.
@@bafa7353 Haha. Im good but definitely never heard of him. That mustve been before the Don Slaught years😃
Baseball Stars was my addiction. I remember one time I played my best game against the American Dreams 3-1 and I was the California Angels. I sweat so hard during that game because the American Dreams was tough.
Great to see Little League Baseball on here! IMO this is the best baseball game on NES. My dad, brother and I played as kids in the late 80s early 90s and still play it today. My dad and I literally played just this past Sunday. It has spawned into another generation as my nephew plays it now also. Mexico is best hitting team and Canada is the best overall squad. Love your video btw
Good stuff🙂
Great list!
Bad News Baseball and Bases Loadad are 2 of my all time favorites.
The SNK games had the best "physics" for fielding, throwing, and baserunning. I honestly believe Little League Championship Series is the best because it only takes 15 minutes to complete a game.
Good to see so many people on Al Pedrique. I had his 1988 Topps card with the All-Star Rookie trophy, and since I was 7, I assumed that meant Pedrique was a big deal. So, seeing him on a video game all-star team didn't phase me at all.
Could he be Pedro (Pudge) Rodriguez
@@tywebb8865 You mean Ivan Rodriguez, who wasn't in the Majors when the game was released?
6:45...That's a guy named Al Pedrique. He played 174 games at shortstop, mostly for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He never made All-Star in real life. Ozzie Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals was the starting shortstop for the National League in the All-Star game in 1987. Since Ozzie Smith is in the game it leads me to believe the developer accidentally screwed up the NL All-Star roster & no one caught it.