Best arcade baseball game?

mrbill2084 said:
there are 2 versions for the dedicated cab here is mine. Proto 4. there is also one in the same family cabinet that would dispense baseball cards.. I had a chance to buy that one, but I passed as I already had this one.

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I have a few of these promotional baseball cards for relief pitcher

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There is a system 1 version of the game too. Ive never played it, but someone on KLOV has it.
 
CameronMcC said:
There is a system 1 version of the game too. Ive never played it, but someone on KLOV has it.
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yes, it was canned as a system 1 game, and then resurrected as a stand alone game.. Scott had 2 relief pitcher system 1 pcbs.. He took 1 to cax like 15 years ago. I would assume he sold the card to the guy who did custom kit art for the system 1 cabinet. the graphics are better on the newer version, but its cool to see them together that year at cax. there used to be a photo of them together on the cax pictures site, but most of the photos links are dead. plus the system 1 version is a 1 button game vs newer one is 3. I believe the one you remember seeing belongs to DLP

The Atari System 1 "Six Pack"

The Atari System 1 "Six Pack". I spent the past year or so restoring all the Atari System 1 games. I went with the amazing looking side art from This Old Game. I highly recommend this custom art for the machines. I'm super happy with how they all turned out!
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Quite partial to Clutch Hitter myself. We used to play it a lot in college in my apartment. Also, a local arcade had it when I was a kid and we stumbled on a local savant while playing it one day. I swear the guy was waiting all day for someone to play it. Walked up and started just puking stats about the players in the game. Fast forward years later to high school, and there's mention of "Stats" attending the basketball games. Same guy, obsessed with statistics, hahaha. I swear he spawned out of the wall in that arcade though.
 
Well I will say. I think you have to be a sports or baseball fan to enjoy these games. This thread got me fired up about trying my RBI. And I had almost zero fun playing this game. I had more fun pulling the PCB out of my cab and swapping the card out.

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Motoman202 said:
Well I will say. I think you have to be a sports or baseball fan to enjoy these games. This thread got me fired up about trying my RBI. And I had almost zero fun playing this game. I had more fun pulling the PCB out of my cab and swapping the card out.

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Baseball games are best played head to head against another player. 1 player mode is only for practice. And who ever enjoyed sports practice? Lots of running, and boring repetitive drills, bad weather - do it anyway scenarios, ....practice sucks. But get 2 people together and it can get fun & competitive fast.

Do it!
 
Yeah rbi is more console to me.

Baseball stars 2 - for less technical play. Essentially neo turf masters of baseball games. If it had licensing it would be more popular to western folks.

Second game - pick and choose - has to be post crash, otherwise the mechanics feel too lame.
 
I'm not into sports arcade games for the most part, but I remember loving playing Extra Bases by Midway against my uncle (who had been a pitcher for a high school team I think). What was great about it (assuming I got the game right) is that it has a small trak-ball. You pitch by moving the trak-ball in a direction. But after like 5 pitches I wondered if the trak-ball still affected the pitch after it was thrown. Yes! So I was doing pitches like down fast then tap up to slow the pitch down midway to the plate, he swung early, hahaaha. Then another pitch, down medium then a tap right and a tap left, the pitch made a Z pattern. He thought he was smart to not bother swinging... but it was a strike (pure luck that it ended up over the plate). We couldn't stop laughing. I think I also threw hard right then hard left, the pitch looked like a > sign, perfect strike! If only real pitchers had that kind of magic control.

So, if I ever get a baseball arcade game, that would be it along with probably Atari Baseball because that one I never played (never saw it anywhere and I lived through the best years of arcade gaming, late '70s through the early '80s) and I love the Atari Football cabinet and game design.
 
Motoman202 said:
Well I will say. I think you have to be a sports or baseball fan to enjoy these games. This thread got me fired up about trying my RBI. And I had almost zero fun playing this game. I had more fun pulling the PCB out of my cab and swapping the card out.

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This game has a (small?) cult following


Btw-- was a fan of World Series Baseball just for the bat control thing!
 
cwilkson said:
Baseball games are best played head to head against another player. 1 player mode is only for practice. And who ever enjoyed sports practice? Lots of running, and boring repetitive drills, bad weather - do it anyway scenarios, ....practice sucks. But get 2 people together and it can get fun & competitive fast.

Do it!
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We talking about Practice.



and why not...

 
I realize I'm a little late to the party on this one, but can't pass up the chance to vote for my all-time, Double Play Baseball. Of course, the batting and pitching joysticks are awesome, but what I haven't heard mentioned before are the excellent (for its time) physics of the ball coming off the bat. Also, I didn't realize until recently, but the game will adjust the maximum distance of your home runs based on the number times you've played under your profile. In other words, your home runs will go further the more you play. And lastly, as I just alluded to, it keeps some pretty cool stats, not just longest home runs, but avg distance, percentage of home runs hit, etc. And that's Just in the Home Run Derby mode. Perhaps, most importantly, it's the perfect game to play while drinking a beer as you only need one hand to play Home Run Derby. That is all. Thank you.
 
WP34 said:
1. Double Play: Super Baseball Home Run Derby
2. RBI Baseball

I played those two the most BITD.
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Early Arcade Video games weren't really known for good Video Game Baseball
The RBI baseball came out-Just a great game
Then Double Play came out and blew RBI out of the water.
 
Vintage Pete said:
I realize I'm a little late to the party on this one, but can't pass up the chance to vote for my all-time, Double Play Baseball. Of course, the batting and pitching joysticks are awesome, but what I haven't heard mentioned before are the excellent (for its time) physics of the ball coming off the bat. Also, I didn't realize until recently, but the game will adjust the maximum distance of your home runs based on the number times you've played under your profile. In other words, your home runs will go further the more you play. And lastly, as I just alluded to, it keeps some pretty cool stats, not just longest home runs, but avg distance, percentage of home runs hit, etc. And that's Just in the Home Run Derby mode. Perhaps, most importantly, it's the perfect game to play while drinking a beer as you only need one hand to play Home Run Derby. That is all. Thank you.
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I am surprised Double Play never got an update and a new release using those controls. Actually Surprises 1up never jumped on the game.?
 
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