Baseball Stars

by Nintendo

Product Features

• The Original!
• Best Baseball Game Ever

Product Details

• ASIN: B000BL5TJK
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,623 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

baseball stars nes nintendo system

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like baseball, it's worth owning an NES just to play this game., July 28, 2007

By 

David L. Farquhar (St. Louis, Missouri (USA)) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Baseball Stars (Video Game)

This game was revolutionary when it came out for adding role-playing elements to an arcade-style baseball game. It's almost 20 years old now and the graphics and sound won't impress anyone now, but still just as much fun as it was then. You can build up your players, release them, sign free agents, make trades, and earn money, adding a whole new dimension that hadn't been seen in the countless other baseball games written for the NES and other computers and consoles of the time.

I can still sit down and play this game for hours, just like my cousin and I did back in 1989. When I've had a hard day at work, this game is one of my favorite ways to unwind. For all I know it's permanently stuck in my NES because I haven't played any other cartridge in it all summer.

Most sports titles are worthless once the new version comes out. This one still sells for about as much as a Mario or Zelda title, and that pretty much says it all. Others tried, but no other baseball game for the NES ever really topped this one.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baseball Stars is the greatest video game of all-time and easy to play!, November 24, 2009

By 

J. Johnson (Gainesboro, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Baseball Stars (Video Game)

The NES Baseball Stars is the number one ranked video game of all time in my book because it is easy to learn to play and it's a different game every time you play against another human. If I had to choose only one video game among all the video games ever created Baseball Stars would be that video game.

Pop Baseball Stars in the old 8-bit Nintendo and you are up and going. You don't even need a high school, much less college, education to play this one. You don't need a strategy guide. You don't need nothin' but the baseball/video game fan desire to sit in one spot for hours with a controller in your hand. It's your team. You even get to NAME THE PLAYERS! It's like having a video game baby. It's like having Kate plus 8 plus one more and you've got a team. I guess Kate plus her 8 would be nine. You could even name your team that and then name one of the players Kate and then use all the kids names as well. I would hope that would be a team people made fun of you for creating though.

You can name one team all of your family names. Name another team after all of your friend's family names. Name the girls team all kinds of CRAZY names. You can even give the team a name and then name each player. You can even change the names of the players if they aren't doing well and maybe that will break them out of a slump. If that doesn't work you can fire that player and then CREATE another player. It's like you are the Dr. Frankenstein of your own baseball team. You can have Obama, Bush, Bill & Hillary on your team. Why? Because you named your players that. Because you could.

The Baseball Stars music is the greatest video game music of all time. It does drive some girlfriends and wives crazy however. If the Baseball Stars music affects your girlfriend or wife in this manner schedule her a doctor's appointment in a town a least an hour away. Drop her off at the doctor's office and leave her there. Go straight home and play some more Baseball Stars. When she eventually gets home and throws a fit, hit the pause button, turn your head slightly and calmly say "Baseball Stars music ain't that bad when it comes with a roof over your head is it baby?"

All those other baseball games have all these multi-button functions and camera angles that take away from the actual PLAYABILITY of the video games. You don't need to see Derek Jeter's face up close. You just name a cartoon figure Derek, Jeter or D. Jeter and then pretend that cartoon is Derek Jeter. It works! It really does. That's what Baseball Stars gives you. Derek Jeter.

After about 12 to 15-years the battery in the game will wear down but you can go to one of those video stores and have one of those whiz kids fix that for you. Don't try to do it yourself. Let one of those whiz kids do it. They don't have to waste time with a girlfriend anyway. They like stuff like that and it gives their lives meaning. The battery in the game just means you can save stuff in the game. You want to do that. It's awesome!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Baseball Video Game of All Time, September 16, 2008

By 

Jerry Palmerino Jr (United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Baseball Stars (Video Game)

Let me repeat...This is the greatest baseball video game of all time. The create a team feature of this game blows away anything I have ever played since. It is so much fun to manage a team fo players that you named after your friends and family (or whatever you want).

Its a shame that Baseball Stars 2 on the PSP is somewhat different.