Obviously, there are improvements to be made and things to refine with The Show, but I remember how excited I was to finally get this game (I think I was 9 by the time I was lucky enough to get my hands on it). There were nine players on defense! And it talked!
Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...
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@the_joneser_psn said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
Obviously, there are improvements to be made and things to refine with The Show, but I remember how excited I was to finally get this game (I think I was 9 by the time I was lucky enough to get my hands on it). There were nine players on defense! And it talked!
yep I played that game
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@speedy44_psn said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
Yes from the days of Nintendo we have come a long ways
That is before nintendo
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I thought you were taking about this gem.
http://electronicbaseball.blogspot.com/2014/06/parker-brothers-starting-lineup-talking.html
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@dogslax41_mlbts said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
I thought you were taking about this gem.
http://electronicbaseball.blogspot.com/2014/06/parker-brothers-starting-lineup-talking.html
I remember that
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The original RBI Baseball on NES was video game gold! Buddies and I used to play that all the time!! George Bell and Jose Canseco were beasts!!
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Anyone remember Calecovision baseball? Or the three (I think it was three) man defensive unit that moved in unison on the Atari 2600?
Back when I had to walk uphill in the snow both ways just to play a baseball video game, it never occurred to me that we’d one day be complaining about unrealistic sinkers, nerfed exit velocity and bad launch angles… you kids don’t know how good you have it.
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@johnny_coletrain said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
The original RBI Baseball on NES was video game gold! Buddies and I used to play that all the time!! George Bell and Jose Canseco were beasts!!
Baseball Stars
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@johnny_coletrain said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
The original RBI Baseball on NES was video game gold! Buddies and I used to play that all the time!! George Bell and Jose Canseco were beasts!!
St Louis was the fastest team on that game.
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My Dad had a couple of old games that I played when I was younger. Strat-o-matic, electronic baseball, and this beauty that I haven't seen since I was a little kid:
https://spookyshobbyshop.com/Mattel TALKING BASEBALL Game 1972 Edition.html
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@dogslax41_mlbts said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
I thought you were taking about this gem.
http://electronicbaseball.blogspot.com/2014/06/parker-brothers-starting-lineup-talking.html
I had this and loved it. Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell were good in it. That's coming from a real deal Yank fan at that. The fastballs used to blink like crazy. Wow talk about a blast from the past. Great post brother.
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@dogslax41_mlbts said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
I thought you were taking about this gem.
http://electronicbaseball.blogspot.com/2014/06/parker-brothers-starting-lineup-talking.html
Showing my age now! 
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@dbarmonstar_psn said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
@johnny_coletrain said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
The original RBI Baseball on NES was video game gold! Buddies and I used to play that all the time!! George Bell and Jose Canseco were beasts!!
St Louis was the fastest team on that game.
Agreed but Sports Talk Baseball on the Genesis was heavier gold. RBI 3 was my fav if we are talking that franchise.
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My first was on the Atari vcs......never played the intellivision....apart from years later on emulator....this game was pretty good for its day.....makes me laugh though people mention getting bad outcomes on here from p/p hits being caught etc.....I swear those 8bit games you wouldn’t barely get a hit and the cpu would hit homeruns pretty much every AB ....might have been because I was a kid but still lol
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@dbarmonstar_psn said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
@johnny_coletrain said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
The original RBI Baseball on NES was video game gold! Buddies and I used to play that all the time!! George Bell and Jose Canseco were beasts!!
Baseball Stars
Best baseball game ever made
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Anybody here play Tony Larussa Baseball on the Genesis? That was the first baseball game I played that was more of a true simulation experience. I appreciated all the stats it allowed for.
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@kingscountyog718 said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
@dbarmonstar_psn said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
@johnny_coletrain said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
The original RBI Baseball on NES was video game gold! Buddies and I used to play that all the time!! George Bell and Jose Canseco were beasts!!
St Louis was the fastest team on that game.
Agreed but Sports Talk Baseball on the Genesis was heavier gold. RBI 3 was my fav if we are talking that franchise.
Agreed
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@formallyforearms said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
Anybody here play Tony Larussa Baseball on the Genesis? That was the first baseball game I played that was more of a true simulation experience. I appreciated all the stats it allowed for.
I did not care for that game
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@dbarmonstar_psn said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
@formallyforearms said in Let's take a moment to appreciate how far things have come...:
Anybody here play Tony Larussa Baseball on the Genesis? That was the first baseball game I played that was more of a true simulation experience. I appreciated all the stats it allowed for.
I did not care for that game
Im curious what didn't you like about it?
That was the first game that had the flyball shadow that showed how high/where the ball path was, as well as wind influencing flight path of the ball. Now every baseball game has those, but it was innovation at the time. I also liked how it let you choose to play in, shallow, deep, shift, and all the defensive alignments that other games didnt.