I was gonna complain about what a joke this thing is since Baseball Stars didn't get first. But I've just got to accept the fact that these guys are coming at these games from whole different direction. They are sitting down together and playing a game and just seeing what they have the most fun in A lot different than me as a kid riding my bike down the street to my friends house. He was in sixth grade and I was in fifth and we spent hundreds of hours playing. We got a custom team to almost perfectly match the Reds. (Who won the world series not long after we starting playing the game) So just saying it's a lot different to review games when you have a huge selection. A lot different than a 10 year old kid who owns maybe 2 or 3 baseball games. (I had one for Apple iic) friend had a commodore one.). Baseball Stars was the only NES baseball game we had I think. So when you are "forced" to play a single game you u can come to love that game. Especially if it's a good game
Oh yeah baseball stars was like a religion for some of us in middle school . I was same age. The care to make sure you didn't lose the memory of the team when turning nes off etc. Me and my friend built a team but we were red Sox fans kinda similar, great memories
@@MK3SupraSteve My cousin and I would spend the summers together and play HOURS of Baseball Stars on end, making our team, powering them up, and then playing against each other. It is hands down the best baseball game ever made.
baseball stars is the best baseball game on the nes.... but only if you play the season with a custom team. if you do an exhibition or just sit down to play it randomly its nothing special, maybe even a bit harder than other titles so i can see how it cant get the top spot.
It still holds up to games today..mechanics were way ahead of their time...league play, create player, buy players, trade players, running stats, championship, create team, responsive dives, rob homers, level up players abilities, I mean come on, this game is still one of the all around best baseball games on any system and I still play it to this very day!!
I spent at least 10000 hours on Baseball Stars as a kid!! I would say it is the most repayable baseball game ever made Down, RIght, Left, Down, Down, RIght, Up, When it is
@@PerpetualArt Only hundreds of times here, lol. Me and the kids from the neighborhood would spend multiple hours setting all our teams up and creating a league. We'd play a few games or so until we had to go home. Inevitably the next time we'd try to continue all our data was gone and we'd have to spend a few more hours starting over from scratch, people with their favorite players erased super pissed. Good ol NES.
@@chrisspearline767 didn't it? My friends and I would play the season then we had playoffs, maybe we just played a series with our teams? It's so long ago, I don't remember. This game was so epic in my childhood, I even remember when a kid TOLD me at soccer practice that there was a baseball game that kept stats. It blew my mind that even existed.
Epic fail for Dusty's Diamonds not being on this list. Sorry, but this an omission that can't be forgiven. It is by far deserved to be on the list for being original and unique. It almost plays like an RPG. Playing slow or fast pitch gives reason to play through two seasons. Every character having special traits, and the fields having unique obstacles. The replay value is out of this world. So much variety. Offers more replay value than most games in the current generation. Should have been in the top 3. Baseball is baseball. Dusty Diamond's belongs at the top with Base Wars and Baseball Simulator for their uniqueness. All the rest are basically the same.
+masterchief247 Yea it didn't do much for us, I gave it a good amount of time and just didn't get into it. But thanks for the comment bud we appreciate it!
It's true: top two for me with RBI. you do need the character legend in order to build a balanced team. In vs mode my bro and I would try to pick Slick first. the draft mode in vs is a GREAT feature.
Baseball Stars. Big baseball fan, played all these growing up. That was the king. There is just something about taking your own team, naming them after your friends, buying them as raw cheap rookies and building them up into superstars. Beating up on the Lovely Ladies to make the most money per game. Then finally being able to take on the American Dreams stacked team of all time greats. Have a brother or friend that lived close? You're building teams competitively in the same league with full stats and league leaders. So good man, so many hours of fun. The gameplay was tight too after you got used to it. Diving plays, jumps, wall climbs, all could be done consistently with skill. I think RBI 3 is the one in that series personally, otherwise good list though!
I had the Little League Baseball game as a kid and my brother and I played the crap out of that. I am not refuting your judgement of the game as I haven't played the others, but after you put a enough hours into the game you get an intuitive sense for where your fielders are and can move them right into position without seeing them. I agree that view is to narrow in the outfield, but after some time it gets to be much less of an issue than you would think.
Hands down...Little League Baseball Championship was the best baseball game on the NES system. LLBC had the most realistic, best gameplay and even the best graphics of all the games. Sure, I get if you don't like Little League rules (i.e. 6 innings, blow-out rule, etc.) but if you compared what really mattered for a video baseball (i.e. game play, realism) then LLBC was the best of its era!
Baseball Simulator 1000 also gets my vote. I was obsessed with this game back in the day. If you play it long enough, you will begin to see how deep it is. Music is upbeat and I love the 7th inning stretch tunes. As a standard baseball game, it is better than average, but the ultra league puts over the top. Good review.
FINALLY, someone who ALSO loves Baseball Simulator!!! I OBSESSED over this game as a kid, remaking the NL East and playing as my Phillies and recording the stats.
I agree wholeheartedly. Little League was my fave. It made the summer of '90 a summer. My brother and I played for HOURS each day. Canada was my team. Bad News Baseball was my 2nd fave. Def shoulda been higher on the list
Do a video on Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball for NES it's like $100 for a cart unless you find a repro for $35 to $40 but worth it cause that game is fun as hell
If you’re a real baseball fan and you want a more realistic game and feel, Baseball Stars is easily the best. If you want a more gimmicky game and unrealistic feel you’ll think something else is better. Baseball Stars is easily the best. The fielding engine alone makes it the best. I would make my own team and the first thing I would do is build up my players defense. Still the most responsive controls defensively ever in a Baseball game.
You nailed the top two for sure. Baseball Simulator 1.000 has always been my favorite baseball game. I still play that game and RBI Baseball to this day. They have so much replay value and are just plain fun, making them superior to any other NES baseball games, including Baseball Stars. Thanks guys, I enjoy the channel.
I respectfully disagree with two things on your list. 1) MLB was too easy. As a kid, I would routinely run up the score by 100 runs (it actually only showed 99) on the computer with the Braves...yeah, the late 80s Braves. It was fairly easy to hit a HR if you knew the trick to pull the bat in and hit it off the end of the bat. You said there weren't many flaws, but two big ones: you hit a fly ball against the wall and they call it a HR, and it was nearly impossible to throw a runner out on a routine hit from 3rd base to 1st. You actually had to throw it to home to first to get the runner, and that had to require two fast throws. 2) Bad News Baseball should have been higher. It is an incredibly smooth game, and the bunny (and randomly thrown in characters like Mr T, a ninja and a sumo wrestler in the cut scenes) were only for humor.
That's fine we know this list isn't for everyone, if we were doing the top 10 best baseball simulators you best believe it would look different. But at the end of the day these are the games that we had the most fun with, thanks for being respectful! Cheers bud
10 year olds in 1989 would have a different view. Cant believe you had never played Baseball Simulator. Assigning all the speed to the lead off guy and he zooms around the bases. I named him zoom. Then theres fuck batting clean up. Mlb is full of glitches which makes it funny but dusty diamond bases loaded 2 and baseball simulator 1000 are the most fun..mainly for the fielding
Technically, Dusty Diamonds is a softball game, so I'll accept the snub. But it's by far my favorite game ever on any system ever. You guys probably got frustrated by picking players and figuring out there abilities, but that's what made it so great. You really had to work to figure out the best team if you had any chance of beating the Amazons.
I loved Bad News Baseball. I also played a lot of Roger Clemens on the SNES at a friend's house, and another friend had the NES version, which I played a few times. Seemed like those 2 had baserunning options that other games didn't have. I played Ken Griffey Jr. on SNES over the weekend and it was pretty unintuitive in a lot of ways, and I assume the NES version was worse. I do have one question: does anybody know what game it was that had the umpire arguments? "He was safe by a mile!" "You're out!" I thought it was Bad News Baseball, but it hasn't been in the emulator versions I've played. I'm pretty sure it was an NES game, because we never had SNES at our house, and I'm pretty sure we played it there. We must have rented it.
Baseball Stars was by far the best baseball game on the NES. This review was not thought out very well. Baseball simulator 1.000 is fun but nothing near a real baseball experience. RBI baseball was fun but nothing compared to Baseball Stars. Only real gamers know what I’m talking about. Thanks for the attempt at the review though...
The Tecmo Bunny was their mascot. I don't know why Bad News Baseball couldn't just have human umps. Lol But I never cared much as a kid. I loved this game and I think it's still one of the best baseball video games ever made.
I had a lot of good times playing Baseball Stars. I was surprised it wasn't #1. It had a real feel of baseball, and there were certain plays on defense that you knew you had to move the guys just the right way to make the play, like on shots to the hole at SS or in the OF climbing the wall to rob someone of a homer. The stats and player ratings were great too, as were the different teams you could be. Also, it's amazing how similar these games are in terms of how they look, other than maybe Bases Loaded, which sucked I thought. The sounds were pretty similar too.
back when i was a kid, there was a way to control the pitch in NES's Major League Baseball and my brother and I figured it out purely by accident. One day while playing, I was removing the controller connection from the NES system when I hear a pitch being thrown. When I looked up, I noticed the baseball going really slow and very way way off the screen. After a while of playing around with the connector, I was able to figure out how to throw any pitch I wanted. The funniest thing of it all was that, no matter how far away the pitche was, the computer batter would always swing, and multiple times (due to the pitch being sooooo slow. Ah the good ole' days!
Baseball Simulator 1.000... I remember I played this game as a kid over the house of one of my dad's relatives who I've never met, and his kids had this game. I never played it after that day, and I always wondered until adulthood what was the name of that baseball game. I searched and searched but I could not find it. (Nintendo had so many games lol).... Until today. All I could remember is crazy pitches that went all over the screen and the ball hitting the field and causing an earthquake. Thank you ... I finally found the game i've been searching for after 30 years!
One reason the original Bases Loaded was so popular is that the players had undocumented abilities. For example, I played as NY often. They had a guy on the bench who was an incredible bunter. You needed to sacrifice a guy over, he was your man. There was another player who's name I don't recall who was a great pinch hitter. The starting catcher, who's name was Jersey (not to be confused with the team named Jersey), was a great clutch player. I can't tell you how many games I won on 9th inning hits and home runs by Jersey (the NY catcher, not the team). The center fielder on Texas, who I think was named Warner, was a TERRIBLE fielder. He dropped so many easy fly balls. All these subtle individual abilities were not documented anywhere that I am aware of. You only noticed it if you played a lot of games with the same team. It gave the game a lot of replay value. EDIT: The Texas center fielder was Monroe. Warner was the Texas cleanup hitter.
I was stunned that LJN Major League Baseball was on this list. "This game just got baseball right"? Ummm...if your idea of getting baseball right is to have baserunners that move at a faster speed than the defense's throws, sure. Otherwise...nope. That game was HORRENDOUS, and I could sense that as a 10-year-old in 1988 when my dad bought it for the two of us to play.
No matter how good or bad these 10 games were or how you felt about them it was great time in gaming, that the gamers had the option of 10 different baseball games.
always preferred bases loaded 1 and 2 because you can move your players anywhere after fielding the ball and not just in the baseline also you can swing the bat in 8 directions.the 3rd installment ruined the series with the flipped fielding angles coupled with mirroring the direction in which you throw to a base.
Really surprised how low little league baseball was in this video. Really a great game in this video did it disservice. The size of the field allowed you to actually think before reacting which made it more realistic
There are input codes where you can create specialized teams, like nearly fully powered up ones, and even a full female team in Baseball Stars. You can also hire females as new players, it is a hidden selection at the bottom of the list where you choose the kind of player. I think the top one is whether they are a pitcher or a batter, then what handed they are, and then whether they are a rookie, veteran, etc. If you press down one more time, even though there is no text, a hidden selection will come up for male or female.
Great reviews! I just have a quick question. Did you film your games played and then edited them down or were you able to utilize already existing gameplay vids? I am learning about how this is done and having a rough time. Like do you put a camera on the tv and edit in a program? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also LionsHead beer? I drank that when I went to Bloomsburg!
+Ram Media We record our gameplay footage ourselves. Early on we used emulators, as they are really easy to record directly from. Some will have an option similar to "Record .Avi" which will make a file of whatever you play. Now we use game capture devices. We use Roxios, one records straight VGA/SVideo and the other is for Component to HDMI (for HD consoles). There are a number of HD capture devices out there, the elgatos being the most popular, but do some research and see what works for you and your price range. We would advise against recording off a tv, as the clarity is usually pretty bad. Thanks for watching!
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game Awesome! Yeah I was amazed that there was such clarity and how you had no stability issues. I know this is not brand new but just new to me. Thank you so much for the information. I subscribed and look forward to going through your previous videos. Its a lot of fun! Great concept!
I was wondering if you could help me find the game I am looking for? I do not remember if it was on Nintendo or the Sega (only systems i had) but it might have been from the late 80's to possibly the mid 90's. I don't remember exactly but I'm thinking it was a normal baseball game with real rosters but you could play with a made up team (cheat code) with fake people that had different strengths. Fast pitchers, big homer run hitters and super fast runners etc. It's not Simulator 1000. Anyways the one thing that stood out to me about the game was the off the wall comments from the announcers. The lead off hitter was about 3 foot tall and he had super fast speed. His name was Mike "Swatty" Swanson. The announcer said this "He lead the league in runs last year, but with a change of his diet and the help of some antacids he cleaned up his act." There was so many off the wall comments, it made the game very enjoyable! I know that's a terrible description, but maybe you have played it before? Thanks!
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game thanks. it maybe a Sega game. I'm not sure if any NES games actually had announcers. I think it was a newer game which would have been on Sega. nes and Sega was all I had as a kid. thanks.
one great thing about nes , was variety of styles in these games, and they were all good and fun... i only rented games, so i had to play that side game of trying to remember wich game was wich...lol
My brothers and I played Baseball Simulator for years and still play it occasionally to this day. So much fun. Usually play the SNES version, but the NES is fine.
I never knock people who put together their own lists. I just offer up my own. Honorable mention: Base Wars, Bo Jackson Baseball, and Tecmo Baseball 10. Baseball 9. RBI Baseball 8. Bases Loaded II: The Second Season 7. RBI Baseball 3 (I know, it's the same as 2...but those division winners with players/stats was a huge touch in 1991) 6. Little League Baseball 5. Bad News Baseball 4. LEGENDS OF THE DIAMOND (CRIMINALLY underrated game...nearly every historically great player is represented in that game) 3. Dusty Diamond All-Star Softball 2. Baseball Simulator 1.000 (man, just ahead of its time with the depth of simulation) 1. Baseball Stars (it will always be the GOAT for me on the NES)
+Average GamerYT Interesting, never heard of it but can def check it out in the future. Since it is a sports game I am sure it is nice and cheap as well. Thanks gain bud
That is the great thing about reviewing sports titles not only are they fun... their cheap too. You guys have a lot of fans that enjoyed your sports titles reviews. A great original idea that really no one else has really done. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the next sports video... you guys cornered the market on NES now you can tackle the next best consoles with great sports titles such as Genesis, original xbox, Ps 1 and Wii are my personal favorite consoles.
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game Not sure if you own any older sports game on the pc that would be an interesting video on the history of sports titles such as Frontline Football and John Elway football, Tony Larussa Baseball... ... Or if you guys prefer to do modern consoles I guess it would be cool to see a sports video on Ps4 games as well
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game That would be great Sega Genesis does have many sports games that are worth reviewing... will look out for this... keep up the great work guys! Cheers!
wasn't there an nes baseball game that had a whole other device you could attach to the console. maybe i am imagining a game that does not exist. been going nuts trying to find it
i tryed some some days ago and findout it is very upseting that:there are no fair rock-paper-sc..game for pitching - i dont want make 4balls, just near the edge, if i cant move it correctly, why i have to rule it? i SaveLoaded at every position of batter but cpu decided that THAT ball impossible to hit correctly - it MUST be catched or strike, and cpu always know where ball will be on field, but you ever dk where filder is standing to start run to the random place, so cpu gets 2 bases usually against your 0.3 (badnewsbaseball)
YES YES YES...!!! You got the best baseball game of the NES right! Baseball Simulator 1000 such a fantastic game! I own Baseball stars and Bases Loaded 1....but Baseball Simulator 1000 is the only one of them I still play. Thank you for picking it as the best game of the NES!
You guys should do top 10 or top 5 lists for all the sports games on the Nes: the rest of the 20 baseball games, Golf, Basketball, Tennis, hockey, olympics, football... am I forgeting any?
Haha funny you should mention that, cause we are in the process of doing it. Starting next week we are gonna do the NES Hockey Game Reviews, then Basketball..etc until we have played it all. Then we will score the games, both Best and Worst
Ok DBPG crew, I will not try to come off like an angry online a random person… But as a person who played all those games when they came out, you got it all wrong! To rank RBI baseball and MLB baseball ahead of baseball stars is ridiculous. Since RBI and MLB came out about the same time, they can be comparable to each other. But baseball stars should’ve cracked your top three.
Baseball stars is great but NOTHING comes close to Dusty Diamond All-star softball as far as baseball games go. Absolute classic and one of the 10 best games on NES ever made!! Others in my top: Dragon Warrior, DW3, Final Fantasy, Contra, Legend of Zelda, Tecmo Super Bowl, Simons Quest, Castlevania 3, Mega Man 2
I agree that major league baseball was such an underrated classic, I like the top 5 except base wars should not be higher than baseball stars.. The top 4 are RBI baseball, Baseball simulator 1000, and Baseball stars, and major league baseball, doesn't matter what order, eventhough I would probably put baseball stars #1.. you should've also shown some love to the first baseball game on nes called Baseball, that's a classic game 😂
I agree %100...nothing more fun than RBI baseball original ...as you said...it just plays well! No distraction...just good fast baseball...awesome pitching...nothing more fun than striking out your friends!
yeah we heard that from a ton of people, definitely fun for what it is but it didn't grab us back then, maybe something to revisit. thanks for watching!
Drink a Beer and Play a Game...true, but the NES classic mini is an officially licensed Nintendo product and you get to use real version 1 controllers.
MLB by LJN was great! I remember renting it and playing it but for the longest I couldn’t remember the name. As soon as it came up in your list and heard the music everything came back! Awesome to see it again! 😊😊
you hit the nail on the head. RBI baseball is the best NES game they made...except for one. Baseball Simulator 1.000. i dusted off my NES and those 2 games are always a party favorite.😃
When this video came out I watched it as a kid and I picked up baseball stars like 2 years after the vid came out. Me and my friend have put so many hours into it
RBI was the best until Baseball Stars came out and that was so amazing. League Leaders over a whole season. Tracking stats. It was so awesome for a smart 10 year old in 1990. Especially helped since my favorite team won the world series in 1990. Friend and I had a customer Reds team and we got it to match almost perfectly with the Reds lineup
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was awesome. But you shoulda mentioned they borrowed music from RBI and Bases Loaded. The RBI no men on theme when bases are juiced. Awesome stuff.
I was gonna complain about what a joke this thing is since Baseball Stars didn't get first.
But I've just got to accept the fact that these guys are coming at these games from whole different direction. They are sitting down together and playing a game and just seeing what they have the most fun in
A lot different than me as a kid riding my bike down the street to my friends house. He was in sixth grade and I was in fifth and we spent hundreds of hours playing. We got a custom team to almost perfectly match the Reds. (Who won the world series not long after we starting playing the game)
So just saying it's a lot different to review games when you have a huge selection. A lot different than a 10 year old kid who owns maybe 2 or 3 baseball games. (I had one for Apple iic) friend had a commodore one.). Baseball Stars was the only NES baseball game we had I think. So when you are "forced" to play a single game you u can come to love that game. Especially if it's a good game
Exactly what we did, plus it’s a crazy old video so we are a lot more thorough now. Pinning this 🍻
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Oh yeah baseball stars was like a religion for some of us in middle school . I was same age. The care to make sure you didn't lose the memory of the team when turning nes off etc. Me and my friend built a team but we were red Sox fans kinda similar, great memories
@@MK3SupraSteve My cousin and I would spend the summers together and play HOURS of Baseball Stars on end, making our team, powering them up, and then playing against each other. It is hands down the best baseball game ever made.
baseball stars is the best baseball game on the nes.... but only if you play the season with a custom team. if you do an exhibition or just sit down to play it randomly its nothing special, maybe even a bit harder than other titles so i can see how it cant get the top spot.
Baseball Stars is by far the best nes baseball game
No question
No doubt. I have a lot of NES baseball games but baseball stars is by far the best
Miles ahead of all those other ones no question 100%
Yes, i love Baseball Stars is my fav baseball game
It still holds up to games today..mechanics were way ahead of their time...league play, create player, buy players, trade players, running stats, championship, create team, responsive dives, rob homers, level up players abilities, I mean come on, this game is still one of the all around best baseball games on any system and I still play it to this very day!!
Baseball Stars is far and away the best baseball game. Best looking, best music and best gameplay and features.
Nah.
Too realistic and boring .
Cartooney games like Baseball Simulator 1,000 and Little League Baseball smoke that one and all realistic games
Baseball stars revolutionized the baseball video game (leagues, player attributes, player trades, etc). it DESERVES TO BE #1
Nah.
Too realistic and boring .
Cartooney games like Baseball Simulator 1,000 and Little League Baseball smoke that one and all realistic games
Baseball Stars is far better than ANY game on that list. The replay ability alone is far superior to any NES baseball game.
I still play it to this very day!
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I played way more bases loaded as a kid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I spent at least 10000 hours on Baseball Stars as a kid!! I would say it is the most repayable baseball game ever made Down, RIght, Left, Down, Down, RIght, Up, When it is
@@vlcmpunk What is a wren? Remember that one? If you wanted all ladies!
I'd put Baseball Stars at #1. That game still has replay value today.
No playoffs ruins it for me
Its 2019 and baseball stars is still the best.
Amen
No playoffs ruins it for me
Baseball Stars was the best game ever because you could make your own players, and it kept stats. That was MINDBLOWING for it's day.
Yup... except when the cartridge suddenly erased your data, hehe. Good times.
@@kvmairforce + I never had the cartridge erase my data!! That happened to you?
@@PerpetualArt Only hundreds of times here, lol. Me and the kids from the neighborhood would spend multiple hours setting all our teams up and creating a league. We'd play a few games or so until we had to go home. Inevitably the next time we'd try to continue all our data was gone and we'd have to spend a few more hours starting over from scratch, people with their favorite players erased super pissed. Good ol NES.
No playoffs ruins it for me
@@chrisspearline767 didn't it? My friends and I would play the season then we had playoffs, maybe we just played a series with our teams? It's so long ago, I don't remember.
This game was so epic in my childhood, I even remember when a kid TOLD me at soccer practice that there was a baseball game that kept stats. It blew my mind that even existed.
Epic fail for Dusty's Diamonds not being on this list. Sorry, but this an omission that can't be forgiven. It is by far deserved to be on the list for being original and unique. It almost plays like an RPG. Playing slow or fast pitch gives reason to play through two seasons. Every character having special traits, and the fields having unique obstacles. The replay value is out of this world. So much variety. Offers more replay value than most games in the current generation. Should have been in the top 3. Baseball is baseball. Dusty Diamond's belongs at the top with Base Wars and Baseball Simulator for their uniqueness. All the rest are basically the same.
+masterchief247 Yea it didn't do much for us, I gave it a good amount of time and just didn't get into it. But thanks for the comment bud we appreciate it!
It's true: top two for me with RBI. you do need the character legend in order to build a balanced team. In vs mode my bro and I would try to pick Slick first. the draft mode in vs is a GREAT feature.
Right on! Slick Slickster was always my first pick.
Best baseball game by far...totally agree with dusty...sad they never made a 2nd one!
Funny, they like gimmicks but not dusty diamonds baseball. It's the most unique baseball game along with baseball simulator.
Baseball Stars. Big baseball fan, played all these growing up. That was the king. There is just something about taking your own team, naming them after your friends, buying them as raw cheap rookies and building them up into superstars. Beating up on the Lovely Ladies to make the most money per game. Then finally being able to take on the American Dreams stacked team of all time greats. Have a brother or friend that lived close? You're building teams competitively in the same league with full stats and league leaders. So good man, so many hours of fun. The gameplay was tight too after you got used to it. Diving plays, jumps, wall climbs, all could be done consistently with skill.
I think RBI 3 is the one in that series personally, otherwise good list though!
not only is baseball stars the best baseball nes game, but it's the best baseball game of all time.
Played all of these growing up ‘85-‘90. Bases Loaded 1 & 2 and LJN’s MLB were my favorites back then.
Bases Loaded 2 was actually my favorite of the series. I loved that game.
1.Baseball Stars
2.R.B.I. Baseball
3.Bases Loaded
I had the Little League Baseball game as a kid and my brother and I played the crap out of that. I am not refuting your judgement of the game as I haven't played the others, but after you put a enough hours into the game you get an intuitive sense for where your fielders are and can move them right into position without seeing them. I agree that view is to narrow in the outfield, but after some time it gets to be much less of an issue than you would think.
My Sister and I used to LOVE Dusty Diamond's all star softball or whatever it was called. I think it was played in a junkyard or something like that.
Hands down...Little League Baseball Championship was the best baseball game on the NES system. LLBC had the most realistic, best gameplay and even the best graphics of all the games. Sure, I get if you don't like Little League rules (i.e. 6 innings, blow-out rule, etc.) but if you compared what really mattered for a video baseball (i.e. game play, realism) then LLBC was the best of its era!
1. Little League World Series
2. Bad News Baseball
3. R.B.I. Baseball
Baseball Simulator 1000 also gets my vote. I was obsessed with this game back in the day. If you play it long enough, you will begin to see how deep it is. Music is upbeat and I love the 7th inning stretch tunes. As a standard baseball game, it is better than average, but the ultra league puts over the top. Good review.
FINALLY, someone who ALSO loves Baseball Simulator!!! I OBSESSED over this game as a kid, remaking the NL East and playing as my Phillies and recording the stats.
A fellow Philly boy with taste I see
Little league baseball championship series is the best.... That game is brilliant ...
funkyflights Def unique
100% ,
It should've been higher on this list in my opinion. Same with Bad News Baseball.
I agree wholeheartedly. Little League was my fave. It made the summer of '90 a summer. My brother and I played for HOURS each day. Canada was my team. Bad News Baseball was my 2nd fave. Def shoulda been higher on the list
@@jhendy9167 … Heck yeah, I love using Canada also ! ✊
As everyone here has said and knows, Baseball Stars is far and away the best baseball game on NES
But there's no way it ranks worse than Major League Baseball. That game has no business being on a top list.
Do a video on Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball for NES it's like $100 for a cart unless you find a repro for $35 to $40 but worth it cause that game is fun as hell
2:51 They absolutely nailed Hideo Nomo's windup
R.B.I baseball was the best. Played it for years and never got bored.
If you’re a real baseball fan and you want a more realistic game and feel, Baseball Stars is easily the best. If you want a more gimmicky game and unrealistic feel you’ll think something else is better. Baseball Stars is easily the best. The fielding engine alone makes it the best. I would make my own team and the first thing I would do is build up my players defense. Still the most responsive controls defensively ever in a Baseball game.
You nailed the top two for sure. Baseball Simulator 1.000 has always been my favorite baseball game. I still play that game and RBI Baseball to this day. They have so much replay value and are just plain fun, making them superior to any other NES baseball games, including Baseball Stars. Thanks guys, I enjoy the channel.
Thank u bud for checking out our video
thanks bud, appreciate that
Little League baseball was a lot of fun as a kid....but I was playing little league
YES!!!!! Baseball Simulator was my favorite game growing up. I loved the POWER UPS!!!!
+Ram Media It just adds such a fun element outside of straight up baseball
I respectfully disagree with two things on your list. 1) MLB was too easy. As a kid, I would routinely run up the score by 100 runs (it actually only showed 99) on the computer with the Braves...yeah, the late 80s Braves. It was fairly easy to hit a HR if you knew the trick to pull the bat in and hit it off the end of the bat. You said there weren't many flaws, but two big ones: you hit a fly ball against the wall and they call it a HR, and it was nearly impossible to throw a runner out on a routine hit from 3rd base to 1st. You actually had to throw it to home to first to get the runner, and that had to require two fast throws. 2) Bad News Baseball should have been higher. It is an incredibly smooth game, and the bunny (and randomly thrown in characters like Mr T, a ninja and a sumo wrestler in the cut scenes) were only for humor.
That's fine we know this list isn't for everyone, if we were doing the top 10 best baseball simulators you best believe it would look different. But at the end of the day these are the games that we had the most fun with, thanks for being respectful! Cheers bud
+goatcheese4me good points, appreciate the feedback, cheers!
Played all these ...but 2 favorites were baseball stars and bases loaded.
+Jason Bourne We are in the same boat..;)
Baseball Simulator 1000 was my favorite game growing up. My friends and I would play the whole season in a weekend. So much fun
"Oh my god, it's a LJN game!"
"Ahhhhhh!"
Lol
Bases Loaded 1 is the funnest game of the series.
10 year olds in 1989 would have a different view. Cant believe you had never played Baseball Simulator. Assigning all the speed to the lead off guy and he zooms around the bases. I named him zoom. Then theres fuck batting clean up. Mlb is full of glitches which makes it funny but dusty diamond bases loaded 2 and baseball simulator 1000 are the most fun..mainly for the fielding
Technically, Dusty Diamonds is a softball game, so I'll accept the snub. But it's by far my favorite game ever on any system ever.
You guys probably got frustrated by picking players and figuring out there abilities, but that's what made it so great. You really had to work to figure out the best team if you had any chance of beating the Amazons.
Cheers bud and that is a bold statement
I loved Bad News Baseball. I also played a lot of Roger Clemens on the SNES at a friend's house, and another friend had the NES version, which I played a few times. Seemed like those 2 had baserunning options that other games didn't have. I played Ken Griffey Jr. on SNES over the weekend and it was pretty unintuitive in a lot of ways, and I assume the NES version was worse.
I do have one question: does anybody know what game it was that had the umpire arguments? "He was safe by a mile!" "You're out!" I thought it was Bad News Baseball, but it hasn't been in the emulator versions I've played. I'm pretty sure it was an NES game, because we never had SNES at our house, and I'm pretty sure we played it there. We must have rented it.
Sorry, major fail. Baseball Stars should be #1. Can accept differences of opinion, but none of these titles should be above Baseball Stars
Baseball Stars was by far the best baseball game on the NES. This review was not thought out very well. Baseball simulator 1.000 is fun but nothing near a real baseball experience. RBI baseball was fun but nothing compared to Baseball Stars. Only real gamers know what I’m talking about. Thanks for the attempt at the review though...
The Tecmo Bunny was their mascot.
I don't know why Bad News Baseball couldn't just have human umps. Lol
But I never cared much as a kid. I loved this game and I think it's still one of the best baseball video games ever made.
It's my favorite nes baseball game
Did you play rbi baseball 3?
I'm surprised RBI Baseball made #2!
I had a lot of good times playing Baseball Stars. I was surprised it wasn't #1. It had a real feel of baseball, and there were certain plays on defense that you knew you had to move the guys just the right way to make the play, like on shots to the hole at SS or in the OF climbing the wall to rob someone of a homer. The stats and player ratings were great too, as were the different teams you could be.
Also, it's amazing how similar these games are in terms of how they look, other than maybe Bases Loaded, which sucked I thought. The sounds were pretty similar too.
I always preferred the behind the pitcher view. Way easier to hit.
Did you guys try Bo Jackson Baseball? I have a feeling you're gonna have to make a new list.
The "close call" cutscene in #7 was awesome! They really presented well
Bad News Baseball is very underrated - it’s fun, it moves quick, it very playable and the cut scenes are awesome
what were the 2 games in the intro, the one where the ball pushes the guy to the wall. and the one with the POV from the outfielder
Baseball simulator 1000 and one of the bases loaded games
back when i was a kid, there was a way to control the pitch in NES's Major League Baseball and my brother and I figured it out purely by accident. One day while playing, I was removing the controller connection from the NES system when I hear a pitch being thrown. When I looked up, I noticed the baseball going really slow and very way way off the screen. After a while of playing around with the connector, I was able to figure out how to throw any pitch I wanted. The funniest thing of it all was that, no matter how far away the pitche was, the computer batter would always swing, and multiple times (due to the pitch being sooooo slow. Ah the good ole' days!
Mark Raymond nice dude, gotta love those earlier sports game glitches
Is there a baseball game where I can play as Venezuela? I want to find a baseball game for nes, snes or gba where venezuela appears as playable
Baseball Simulator 1.000... I remember I played this game as a kid over the house of one of my dad's relatives who I've never met, and his kids had this game. I never played it after that day, and I always wondered until adulthood what was the name of that baseball game. I searched and searched but I could not find it. (Nintendo had so many games lol).... Until today. All I could remember is crazy pitches that went all over the screen and the ball hitting the field and causing an earthquake. Thank you ... I finally found the game i've been searching for after 30 years!
Glad we could help!
One reason the original Bases Loaded was so popular is that the players had undocumented abilities. For example, I played as NY often. They had a guy on the bench who was an incredible bunter. You needed to sacrifice a guy over, he was your man. There was another player who's name I don't recall who was a great pinch hitter. The starting catcher, who's name was Jersey (not to be confused with the team named Jersey), was a great clutch player. I can't tell you how many games I won on 9th inning hits and home runs by Jersey (the NY catcher, not the team). The center fielder on Texas, who I think was named Warner, was a TERRIBLE fielder. He dropped so many easy fly balls. All these subtle individual abilities were not documented anywhere that I am aware of. You only noticed it if you played a lot of games with the same team. It gave the game a lot of replay value.
EDIT: The Texas center fielder was Monroe. Warner was the Texas cleanup hitter.
Ah that’s really cool, might have to go back and see for myself
My friend and I logged many many many hours on Baseball simulator 1000 , so fun, excellent control and ultra league is insane
yea def
Just discover this channel last night.
I'll be binge watching tonight.
Just picked up bad news baseball today
thanks to your recommendation.
Thanks bud! Cheers
thats awesome, cheers bud
I was stunned that LJN Major League Baseball was on this list. "This game just got baseball right"? Ummm...if your idea of getting baseball right is to have baserunners that move at a faster speed than the defense's throws, sure. Otherwise...nope. That game was HORRENDOUS, and I could sense that as a 10-year-old in 1988 when my dad bought it for the two of us to play.
No matter how good or bad these 10 games were or how you felt about them it was great time in gaming, that the gamers had the option of 10 different baseball games.
FACTS!!!!
always preferred bases loaded 1 and 2 because you can move your players anywhere after fielding the ball and not just in the baseline also you can swing the bat in 8 directions.the 3rd installment ruined the series with the flipped fielding angles coupled with mirroring the direction in which you throw to a base.
Really surprised how low little league baseball was in this video. Really a great game in this video did it disservice. The size of the field allowed you to actually think before reacting which made it more realistic
There are input codes where you can create specialized teams, like nearly fully powered up ones, and even a full female team in Baseball Stars. You can also hire females as new players, it is a hidden selection at the bottom of the list where you choose the kind of player. I think the top one is whether they are a pitcher or a batter, then what handed they are, and then whether they are a rookie, veteran, etc. If you press down one more time, even though there is no text, a hidden selection will come up for male or female.
Ah that’s pretty cool
I spent hours and hours playing RBI. Such great memories. I'd like to play it one more time before old age comes for me.
Maybe we will get lucky and NSO will add it, unless they don’t want to pay for licenses
Roger Clemens MVP baseball is good It's my favorite on the nes.
Great reviews! I just have a quick question. Did you film your games played and then edited them down or were you able to utilize already existing gameplay vids? I am learning about how this is done and having a rough time. Like do you put a camera on the tv and edit in a program? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also LionsHead beer? I drank that when I went to Bloomsburg!
+Ram Media We record our gameplay footage ourselves. Early on we used emulators, as they are really easy to record directly from. Some will have an option similar to "Record .Avi" which will make a file of whatever you play.
Now we use game capture devices. We use Roxios, one records straight VGA/SVideo and the other is for Component to HDMI (for HD consoles). There are a number of HD capture devices out there, the elgatos being the most popular, but do some research and see what works for you and your price range.
We would advise against recording off a tv, as the clarity is usually pretty bad.
Thanks for watching!
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game Awesome! Yeah I was amazed that there was such clarity and how you had no stability issues. I know this is not brand new but just new to me. Thank you so much for the information. I subscribed and look forward to going through your previous videos. Its a lot of fun! Great concept!
+Ram Media thank you, appreciate it and hope you enjoy!
I was wondering if you could help me find the game I am looking for? I do not remember if it was on Nintendo or the Sega (only systems i had) but it might have been from the late 80's to possibly the mid 90's. I don't remember exactly but I'm thinking it was a normal baseball game with real rosters but you could play with a made up team (cheat code) with fake people that had different strengths. Fast pitchers, big homer run hitters and super fast runners etc. It's not Simulator 1000.
Anyways the one thing that stood out to me about the game was the off the wall comments from the announcers. The lead off hitter was about 3 foot tall and he had super fast speed. His name was Mike "Swatty" Swanson. The announcer said this "He lead the league in runs last year, but with a change of his diet and the help of some antacids he cleaned up his act."
There was so many off the wall comments, it made the game very enjoyable! I know that's a terrible description, but maybe you have played it before? Thanks!
+Kelly Burch can't remember offhand but will try to see if we can find it, been so long since we played all the NES baseball games
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game
thanks. it maybe a Sega game. I'm not sure if any NES games actually had announcers. I think it was a newer game which would have been on Sega. nes and Sega was all I had as a kid. thanks.
I think you are thinking about slugfest on the PS2.
omg I played so much little league baseball as a kid... This song... Brought back so much memories!
one great thing about nes , was variety of styles in these games, and they were all good and fun... i only rented games, so i had to play that side game of trying to remember wich game was wich...lol
Haha yeah that got tough after a while
Fuck yes! I loved the shit out of Baseball Simulator 1.000 back in the early 90s. Super happy to see you guys put it at the top of your list.
Cheers bud, glad you enjoyed!
Yea it was awesome, def the favorite of ours!
The super Nintendo version was the greatest one!🎮🕹️🎮
Baseball stars and Baseball Simulator 1.000 are the best nes baseball games
My brothers and I played Baseball Simulator for years and still play it occasionally to this day. So much fun. Usually play the SNES version, but the NES is fine.
RBI 2 was my favorite. We’d have sleepovers and stay up all night playing RBI tournaments.
I never knock people who put together their own lists. I just offer up my own.
Honorable mention: Base Wars, Bo Jackson Baseball, and Tecmo Baseball
10. Baseball
9. RBI Baseball
8. Bases Loaded II: The Second Season
7. RBI Baseball 3 (I know, it's the same as 2...but those division winners with players/stats was a huge touch in 1991)
6. Little League Baseball
5. Bad News Baseball
4. LEGENDS OF THE DIAMOND (CRIMINALLY underrated game...nearly every historically great player is represented in that game)
3. Dusty Diamond All-Star Softball
2. Baseball Simulator 1.000 (man, just ahead of its time with the depth of simulation)
1. Baseball Stars (it will always be the GOAT for me on the NES)
Nice list. and exactly, personal list, some people take it way too seriously haha
Hey you guys should review the top baseball game for the original xbox MVP 06 NCAA Baseball is my personal favorite from that console.
+Average GamerYT Interesting, never heard of it but can def check it out in the future. Since it is a sports game I am sure it is nice and cheap as well. Thanks gain bud
That is the great thing about reviewing sports titles not only are they fun... their cheap too. You guys have a lot of fans that enjoyed your sports titles reviews. A great original idea that really no one else has really done. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the next sports video... you guys cornered the market on NES now you can tackle the next best consoles with great sports titles such as Genesis, original xbox, Ps 1 and Wii are my personal favorite consoles.
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game Not sure if you own any older sports game on the pc that would be an interesting video on the history of sports titles such as Frontline Football and John Elway football, Tony Larussa Baseball... ... Or if you guys prefer to do modern consoles I guess it would be cool to see a sports video on Ps4 games as well
Average GamerYT We will need to look and see what we have, but Jim has a ton of old sports games on his Genesis so could always look there.
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game That would be great Sega Genesis does have many sports games that are worth reviewing... will look out for this... keep up the great work guys! Cheers!
Dusty Diamonds All-star Softball is missing. top 3 for me
That's cool bud, thanks for watching
I remember playing these games when they first came out lol
wasn't there an nes baseball game that had a whole other device you could attach to the console. maybe i am imagining a game that does not exist. been going nuts trying to find it
Not that I know of but now I’m curious, I’ll look into it. I think the Aladdin Deck Enhancer might have had a sports game multicart
@@Drinkabeerandplayagameofficial this is probably from the late-eighties
i tryed some some days ago and findout it is very upseting that:there are no fair rock-paper-sc..game for pitching - i dont want make 4balls, just near the edge, if i cant move it correctly, why i have to rule it? i SaveLoaded at every position of batter but cpu decided that THAT ball impossible to hit correctly - it MUST be catched or strike, and cpu always know where ball will be on field, but you ever dk where filder is standing to start run to the random place, so cpu gets 2 bases usually against your 0.3
(badnewsbaseball)
YES YES YES...!!! You got the best baseball game of the NES right! Baseball Simulator 1000 such a fantastic game! I own Baseball stars and Bases Loaded 1....but Baseball Simulator 1000 is the only one of them I still play. Thank you for picking it as the best game of the NES!
Ever considered Disc Golf Video games to drink a beer to. Around 30 of them if you search wii titles and back to Windows PC.
Oooo we will have to check that out
You guys should do top 10 or top 5 lists for all the sports games on the Nes: the rest of the 20 baseball games, Golf, Basketball, Tennis, hockey, olympics, football... am I forgeting any?
Haha funny you should mention that, cause we are in the process of doing it. Starting next week we are gonna do the NES Hockey Game Reviews, then Basketball..etc until we have played it all. Then we will score the games, both Best and Worst
Found your top fooball game list... you should do a Sega Genesis versions too after your done doing Nes... gotta do it in chronological order.
Average GamerYT
Yup thats what we are doing, once we finish with the NES we will move into the 16 bit era
Ok DBPG crew, I will not try to come off like an angry online a random person… But as a person who played all those games when they came out, you got it all wrong! To rank RBI baseball and MLB baseball ahead of baseball stars is ridiculous. Since RBI and MLB came out about the same time, they can be comparable to each other. But baseball stars should’ve cracked your top three.
Baseball stars is great but NOTHING comes close to Dusty Diamond All-star softball as far as baseball games go. Absolute classic and one of the 10 best games on NES ever made!! Others in my top: Dragon Warrior, DW3, Final Fantasy, Contra, Legend of Zelda, Tecmo Super Bowl, Simons Quest, Castlevania 3, Mega Man 2
I agree that major league baseball was such an underrated classic, I like the top 5 except base wars should not be higher than baseball stars.. The top 4 are RBI baseball, Baseball simulator 1000, and Baseball stars, and major league baseball, doesn't matter what order, eventhough I would probably put baseball stars #1.. you should've also shown some love to the first baseball game on nes called Baseball, that's a classic game 😂
I agree %100...nothing more fun than RBI baseball original ...as you said...it just plays well!
No distraction...just good fast baseball...awesome pitching...nothing more fun than striking out your friends!
Cheers 🍻
I'd put Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball somewhere in there.
yeah we heard that from a ton of people, definitely fun for what it is but it didn't grab us back then, maybe something to revisit. thanks for watching!
I always loved tecmo baseball I remember keeping stats. I also was a big fan of roger clemmans baseball
Nice, yea it seems everyone has different favorites.
Flea market? I can dump the kernel in my NES classic mini and load all these BB roms in seconds using a PC and a usb cable.
Aaron Burrell that is the way to go if you don’t wanna spend money, I have a retron with all the roms for the same reason
Drink a Beer and Play a Game...true, but the NES classic mini is an officially licensed Nintendo product and you get to use real version 1 controllers.
Was the list backwards?
Lol, ok in all these years this is the best one of these comments
MLB by LJN was great! I remember renting it and playing it but for the longest I couldn’t remember the name. As soon as it came up in your list and heard the music everything came back! Awesome to see it again! 😊😊
which game has pacman come out when u hit a hr:(
+yukmouth2009 off the top of my head I forget, but I would say RBI Baseball since it was developed by Namco, who did Pac-Man
+Drink a Beer and Play a Game snes or Nes? IF IT HELPS MAKE A VIDEO
I think that game was super batter up for the SNES
SNES Super Batter Up has Pac-Man come out during Home Run.
What game is that at 1:25 ?
Great list, but I would have put Baseball Stars higher up. My college roommate and I played that nonstop. Classes are for nerds!
you hit the nail on the head. RBI baseball is the best NES game they made...except for one. Baseball Simulator 1.000. i dusted off my NES and those 2 games are always a party favorite.😃
Some good taste right there
When this video came out I watched it as a kid and I picked up baseball stars like 2 years after the vid came out. Me and my friend have put so many hours into it
RBI was the best until Baseball Stars came out and that was so amazing. League Leaders over a whole season. Tracking stats. It was so awesome for a smart 10 year old in 1990. Especially helped since my favorite team won the world series in 1990. Friend and I had a customer Reds team and we got it to match almost perfectly with the Reds lineup
Yea the # of good Baseball games were crazy for the time
Really feeling like you guys didn't give Baseball Stars enough credit.
Baseball stars was a great single player experience, possible the deepest, but when it comes to fun and gameplay we liked the others more
I dont think I ever played a sports game for NES more than Bases Loaded 3.
At the time it blew my mind, boy that didnt age well.
Also at 5:33 what the hell is Lou Gehrig doin!?
lol
Yea alot of games like that
Super Bases Loaded on SNES is the PLATINUM of that series. The others as you've mentioned... is EXACTLY how me and my siblings felt about it.
My man
Baseball Simulator is great, have played many seasons over the last couple of years!
Baseball Simulator 1.000 was awesome. But you shoulda mentioned they borrowed music from RBI and Bases Loaded. The RBI no men on theme when bases are juiced. Awesome stuff.
Played a lot of the LJN game. The maddening thing about it was any hit to 3rd base was a hit - the throw would be a slow lob every time!
There was a game I played that characters would use like an axe or a shovel to hit. Can’t remember what game that was though??? Anyone,?
I played a LOT out of RBI Baseball but never realized there was an NES game with Mario Super Sluggers mechanics.