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Baseball Stars

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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.

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!

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.

I'm 36, and still have my original Game Pak that I bought when I was 17! I wanted to keep those teams intact, while creating a new set of teams with today's friends of mine. I am building up the teams as we speak. In my opinion, this is one of the best baseball video games ever invented. The ability to name your teams and players is easy as it all seems, and goes far beyond your video game dreams. Make up your teams with all of your friends, and the excitement will never end.

In college my friend and I made teams and allowed a budget (we learned a cheat - "what is a wren?" (a bird) which sure beats using the Lovely Ladies to beam your players a hundred times).

We probably played 30 seasons and chronicalled the results in a legder. Man... we used to LOVE our teams. We'd play for 2 or 3 hours every day.

This game would track all the important stats - ERA, avg, HR, RBI etc (not sure about steals.) Being able to create a team was what gave this game such longevity.

Learning to pitch was more fun than hitting, and my favorite was striking someone out. Just a last minute cut would induce a grounder or pop up. Having a HR hit against you was pain. Hitting a HR was joy. I went heavy on power and my buddy went for hitting and speed. He probably won 55% of the time and that was an honor you wanted to have.

This is one of the best video games I've ever played. It's as fun as Madden.

This game is so unbelievable, I don't know where to begin. The two most important things to me in video games are fun factor and gameplay. This game ranks a 15 out of 10 in both. This game was so far ahead of its time, I think the programmers were aliens, or people from 100 years in the future. Consider that this game was made in 1989, now read the list of things that you can do in it:

1. Create your own team. Up to 2 - 3 teams without major risk of memory loss
2. Create your own players
3. Customize your player, lefty or righty. Also choose male or female, and for pitchers sidearm or overhand. You can also set the hitters batting stance, but you have to do this by viewing how they bat in the games, and naming them accordingly.
4. Win games and earn money, the money in turn can be used to build up your players in 1 of 5 categories for hitters: Hitting(contact), Batting(power), Speed, Defense, Luck, Prestige, and for pitchers: Stamina, Speed, Left Curve, Right Curve, Drop, Prestige(Prestige determines how many fans and how much $$$ your player brings in).
You can also power up your pitchers' hitting abilities since the pitcher bats in this game.
5. Purchase free agents, fire players, trade players amongst created teams.
6. Create a season - complete individual statistics are not displayed, but the stats are kept track of as the leader board is displayed for the top 10 in batting average, homeruns, rbi's, wins, era, and saves.

Even the programming is amazing. The game play is as smooth as it gets and every player is extremely easy to control. Even the permutations of where your batted ball can go seem endless, as opposed to most other games where there is a predefined number of places your ball can drop. The computer even drops popups once in a blue moon, like once every 50 games, just like real life. The only negative about this game is that once in a while, the computer grabs hold of your outfielders and makes them do whacky things. You get used to this and learn to work around it for the most part. The other thing to remember is that for balls hit in the left and right centerfield gaps, the computer only lets you control the left and right centerfielders.

For my taste, this baseball game is far superior to today's baseball games where they just base everything on the major leagues and then you play a ridiculously long season with each game clocking in at around the two hour mark. Obviouly NES graphics do not compare to PS3 and xbox360, but you can take your graphics, I want my smooth gameplay.

Remember, whenever turning this game off, you must hold the reset button down while you press power; do this even when you've turned it on and it isn't working and you're turning it back off to try again. To keep the memory safe, it is recommended you commit a nintendo to just this game, and leave the game in there. It is far worth it.

In my mind, you have Baseball Stars for NES and Final Fantasy 7 for Playstation as the two best games ever made. Which is better? It's like choosing between your children.

if u have a nes, and u don't own this game, u should be shot! if u like baseball, and u don't have a nes, then buy 1 JUST 4 THIS GAME! i bought a yobo recently, and it works pretty good for the cheap price. it is the best nes game of all time. i still play it all the time, and it's 2008. the game is like 20 years old, but still a blast. DON'T BUY BASEBALL STARS 2, AS IT DON'T COMPARE TO THIS 1. u can read my review of that one 4 greater detail.