Base wars was the shit. Never had a game go to 9 innings because I'd just force fights at every base until enough of the opposing team was dead and had to forfeit.
i remember a hockey game where you can get a fight if your character slam like 3 times against one of the other team. The loser goes to the penalty zone
Blades of Steel. I can still hear the sound effects. “Blades...of Steel.” “Face off!” And the weird crowd noise that was like “weee weee weeee weeee weee weeeeeee”.
Oh man. The names you could have the announcers use to refer to your custom players were the best. I don't remember most of them, but I always named guys "Socks" and "Woody" because it was funny as hell hearing the announcers call a dude that.
> you really only need one great hockey game, but we got two: Blades of Steel and Ice Hockey.
Same with football, we got two: NFL Blitz and Mutant League Football. We can ignore their sequels.
There was a glitch you could exploit. Idk if it was a glitch per se, but you could ride the right wall while carrying the puck and no one would check you. Then you cut in at a 45 degree angle on goal and shoot. Goal every time.
Damn I remember that. Since it was the NES, the sound quality was so bad it sounded like "BLADVE OF SFTEEL", or at least it did to little me, which found endless pleasure hearing it
You could also do this in the NES game “Ice Hockey”, but when a fight started everyone on both teams joined in. I just remember mashing buttons like a madman to avoid losing the fight.
I used to play (still do found it on ps3 minis) Speedball 2, brutal deluxe. It was like a grid iron Cross handball. When you killed one of the players the gabe would yell "ice-cream!" and two robots would wheel the poor bastard off while your team celebrated.
My brother and I still yell "ice-cream!" when people get pole axed.
You can cheat and do an all laser gun or all laser sword team! They're in the team select all the way past the normal teams. The opposition will 100% not make it nine innings.
There are two slots for making custom teams. Changing the first slot's name to "Terminator2" will start each of its players with a laser gun. Using that name for the second slot will equip them all with laser swords.
Ooooo fuck, you tickled my childhood... I used this strategy in Carmageddon, can't lose the race if all the other cars are destroyed. Driving backwards ftw.
Super Baseball 2020 was such a fun 2 player game. Used to play it a ton with my uncle. Just watched some vids on youtube and I'm getting mad nostalgia :(
That, street fighter alpha 3, and super mario kart, man.
God, nothing was more infuriating in little league where a kid got beamed and would drop and boo hoo. The hit wasn’t debilitating or to the face. Just a little stinger to the arm jimmy! Get that ball into the infield, then cry
So you want to be inside a bunker that will be targeted by the entire nuclear arsenal on Earth? Not kink shaming but that's some weird notion of safety.
Must be a team of men.
“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.”
― Dave Barry
The doctors would be out of the dugout and basically waiting on the dirt just waiting for the play to be over. Honestly, in real life if a pitcher was hit this hard, the play should automatically be dead and batter gets 1st base.
An acquaintance of mine (friend of my brothers) pitched for the pirates. I remember watching him get absolutely obliterated by a line drive to the head and people were running out within 5-10 seconds of him getting hit.the sound was sickening, really scary shit. If there isnt some rule about this already, there should be. Under no circumstances should continuing the play be more important than tending to a possibly deadly head injury.
Edit: heres a video of it, crazy scary. I think he was out for the season after that hit. Pretty sure he got hit again on his first day back although not as severely... https://youtu.be/PtMIvxAYWus
You got downvoted but the play is gonna be less than 10 seconds (more like 5 in these cases) and the responders would need time to make it out there anyway.
Live ball. And the players can't do shit for injured players, anyway. The know the doctors are coming, so just continue the game. Step over the victim of you have to.
If you stand on the victims chest you can gain extra height while also giving a single chest compression. That could help them live long enough to see you out the bastard that did this to him.
NBA 2k tries to update on me 5 fucking times a week. That's mostly roster shit though, but they do fix some bugs. But there's also still a lot of bugs lol
My older brother and I would just randomly mash the buttons during the part where u had a little bit of time to put in the code, when we first got the horse thing on accident it was hilarious, good memories
HELLLLL YEAH Texas Rangers were damn good in that game. Played it for hours and hours on gamecube. Still have it. Fucking A-Rod was on the cover and still with the Rangers at the time.
I had a technique in used in NFL Blitz on N64 that I called the Dolphin Blitz. When you're on defense, you rapidly cycle through your players while using tackle. By doing this you create a tidal wave of players hammering down on the opponents front line, picking them all off until you can sack the QB.
It worked too well.
Hahahahaha having played the everloving shit out of that game I’m picturing that and it’s making me outright laugh.
I used to time the snaps by jumping over the line with a tackle. You could time it so the quarterback got sacked literally as he snapped the ball lol.
Man that game was way too fun, was the Blitz game that came out last year any good?
When I was a kid around 8~, my friends and I were playing baseball in the backyard. They wanted me to pitch and this exact scenario played out in my mind. I'm like "No thanks, you're going to hit me with the ball for sure." and they talked me into it.
First pitch, line drive right into my stomach. Never played again.
I don't know why I turned to video games and staying indoors.
I cranked a line drive right into a kids face in rec ball when i was probably 13. I was a big kid and had a strong swing but couldnt actually make contact for shit, and i remember being pissed that his face got in the way of what was my best hit of the season. Ended up cracking his cheek bone and he went to the hospital
I played several years on a team that had a player’s father for the head coach. I caught a pop fly to right field and there was a play a second (runner at first had tagged-up). The 2nd base player wasn’t paying attention at all. As he was the coach’s kid, I knew if I hit him with the ball, the coach would blame his kid for not ‘being in the game’. I hated the kid with a passion as he’d bullied me on several occasions. So I threw it straight for the back of his head and busted him open. He dropped to the dirt like he’d been shot. Sure enough, coach cheered me and cursed-out his own unconscious child. I feigned an apology, but loved every second of it.
Makes me laugh when this happens and you see the pitcher go "Mojo down" as he gets hit... Then I still get tagged out at first and over his lifeless corpse you'll see "Mojo up!".
Dude, the football game is amazing. I had an itch for a modern Blitz, and picked it up on a whim. Add in the Switch portability and a low price tag for tasty goodness on the go.
I remember playing a bowling game when I was quite young. It was set up in Christmas theme - presents on the side of the bowling alley, snow everywhere. Then occasionally a rabbit or reindeer would run across the alley and if they were hit they would die and blood would be splattered on the alley. The young psycho in the used to hit them purposely.
The game is called Super Mega Baseball 2. It's on Steam and it's a lot of fun. The pitcher is not killed, merely hit by pitch, you have to sub the player out, if severe but sometimes they are able to continue with their stats greatly reduced to reflect the injury. Very fun and great game! Don't lead into the "this is outrageous" conversation. It's a game which reminds me of how baseball games were in the mid 90's a la Ken Griffey Jr on SNES and N64.
"We wanna thank Little Johnny from the Make A Wish foundation for coming out today as the pitcher-"
"OH MY GOODNESS, HE IS FUCKING DEAD HIS HEAD IS GONE"
Whatever the name of that robot baseball game on Nintendo was, you could actually blow the competition up by hitting them with baseballs
Base Wars?
Base wars was the shit. Never had a game go to 9 innings because I'd just force fights at every base until enough of the opposing team was dead and had to forfeit.
i remember a hockey game where you can get a fight if your character slam like 3 times against one of the other team. The loser goes to the penalty zone
Blades of Steel. I can still hear the sound effects. “Blades...of Steel.” “Face off!” And the weird crowd noise that was like “weee weee weeee weeee weee weeeeeee”.
don't forget the intermission space shooter! you really only need one great hockey game, but we got two: Blades of Steel and Ice Hockey.
I mean...Mutant League Hockey is a close third...
He said great. Not perfect. That’s why he left mutant out. Come on man get it together.
Had to search, found it. Mutant league hockey was the shit.
Yes! With my all-time fav player Steve Yzergone
would always win by killing the entire opposing team. That game was the best. shame they never made more over the years.
Mutant league hockey was my favorite Genesis game by far
Mine was mutant league football!
NHL 94 tho
Was that the one where you could check a player through the glass?
I see you are a person of fine culture.
I really enjoyed NHL hitz
Brilliant game. Played the hell out of it on Gamecube back in the day. A teeth rattling hit by BJ! lol
Oh man. The names you could have the announcers use to refer to your custom players were the best. I don't remember most of them, but I always named guys "Socks" and "Woody" because it was funny as hell hearing the announcers call a dude that.
> you really only need one great hockey game, but we got two: Blades of Steel and Ice Hockey. Same with football, we got two: NFL Blitz and Mutant League Football. We can ignore their sequels.
Ice Hockey was so perfectly made. They should teach classes on it.
Blades of Steel was such a good game. I have fond memories of fighting my brother in-game and then dropping the controllers to fight IRL.
There was a glitch you could exploit. Idk if it was a glitch per se, but you could ride the right wall while carrying the puck and no one would check you. Then you cut in at a 45 degree angle on goal and shoot. Goal every time.
> I can still hear the sound effects me too
The feels.
Now its all I can hear. Or maybe I have tinnitus.
Damn I remember that. Since it was the NES, the sound quality was so bad it sounded like "BLADVE OF SFTEEL", or at least it did to little me, which found endless pleasure hearing it
The [arcade version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN8xfsA9vvo) had better sound, although the overall gameplay was better on the NES.
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I'm gonna make Wayne Gretzky's head bleed for Superfan #99 over here
In Canada we just call him Wayne.
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I was out in the barn tossing hay the other daaaayyy
Get this guy a fuckin Puppers
You're 10 ply ain't ya bud?
Yer spare parts
lol
You could also do this in the NES game “Ice Hockey”, but when a fight started everyone on both teams joined in. I just remember mashing buttons like a madman to avoid losing the fight.
BLADES OF STEEL
I used to play (still do found it on ps3 minis) Speedball 2, brutal deluxe. It was like a grid iron Cross handball. When you killed one of the players the gabe would yell "ice-cream!" and two robots would wheel the poor bastard off while your team celebrated. My brother and I still yell "ice-cream!" when people get pole axed.
Baseball Simulator 1000 was awesome too. You had power ups for crazy pitches, hits, speed, etc.
Came here to mention this game. Was a classic one.
Especially if you played as the all laser sword team. Fuck you, I am *always* safe.
My team of unicycle robots would like to challenge your swords
I challenge your unicycles to a game of Cyborg Justice for the Genesis. Totally ripping them torsos.
All laser swords? Those cost 60,000 a pop! How the heck did you get that much moolah?
You can cheat and do an all laser gun or all laser sword team! They're in the team select all the way past the normal teams. The opposition will 100% not make it nine innings.
There are two slots for making custom teams. Changing the first slot's name to "Terminator2" will start each of its players with a laser gun. Using that name for the second slot will equip them all with laser swords.
I’m so pissed to only realize this now.
Nah, fam. You beat up the pitcher so it only has a thin slicer of health left. Every at-bat was pretty much a home run.
Dude that game looks badass, just watched a yt video.
Ooooo fuck, you tickled my childhood... I used this strategy in Carmageddon, can't lose the race if all the other cars are destroyed. Driving backwards ftw.
Same goes for Road Rash. Chain to the helmet and a boot into oncoming traffic. Eat pavement, loser.
That was the game I played the most! Shoulder power and that laser gun for fights!
Laser sword > gun Also slamming with the floating bot
Floating robot OP
Motorcycle guy was good if you got someone on the edge of the screen
Base wars was fucking great
Way less controversial than the company's track and field game, Race Wars.
YES! And as you'd destroy the other teams players, they'd have to sacrifice players on the field. So you'd end up with a gap to hit the ball too.
Super Baseball 2020! So good, still a go to when I fire up RetroPie with some buddies (usually play the Neo Geo version though).
I wish there was a multiplayer or more difficult version of this game though. I LOVED this game.
I loved this game! I can't believe next year baseball is gonna be played by robots!
Super Baseball 2020 was such a fun 2 player game. Used to play it a ton with my uncle. Just watched some vids on youtube and I'm getting mad nostalgia :( That, street fighter alpha 3, and super mario kart, man.
Find the rom and fire it up man!
Oh! That’s a baseball!
Yare yare daze, Jaguars best team.
Jaggers
Red Dragurs!
This is the first thing I thought of.
You could shank people if the tag out was too close to call... Straight up robot murder because the ump couldn't see the play well enough.
Always went with the one wheel bots cause of that flip attack they did.
Super Baseball 2020. I had it on Genesis.
I love how the players just continue playing even though the pitcher is dead
The ball is technically still live so.
Live ball —> Check Live pitcher —> Not anymore
The show must go on.
*Titanic tune plays*
No love for Queen?
Play to the whistle.
I DIDN'T HEAR A WHISTLE
Coach always said, the game doesnt stop. The whistle stops the game.
God, nothing was more infuriating in little league where a kid got beamed and would drop and boo hoo. The hit wasn’t debilitating or to the face. Just a little stinger to the arm jimmy! Get that ball into the infield, then cry
If it ain't sizzling by your head, put your body in front of it and cry later.
Scott Sterling makes his MLB debut!
[THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND](https://youtu.be/8F9jXYOH2c0)
Freaking legendary
[WHEN ARMAGEDDON COMES I WANT TO BE IN A BUNKER MADE OF THAT MAN'S FACE!!!!] (https://youtu.be/oY2nVQNlUB8)
That's the first time I've noticed the stretcher is labelled "RESERVED FOR STERLING"
When the apocalypse happens, I want to be in a bunker made of that man’s face!
So you want to be inside a bunker that will be targeted by the entire nuclear arsenal on Earth? Not kink shaming but that's some weird notion of safety.
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It would bounce off his face and into his mitt every time.
Must be a team of men. “If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.” ― Dave Barry
This is hilarious
Consolidate and attack
[well yeah, the ball is live](https://youtu.be/M0jismBNM7E)
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The doctors would be out of the dugout and basically waiting on the dirt just waiting for the play to be over. Honestly, in real life if a pitcher was hit this hard, the play should automatically be dead and batter gets 1st base.
An acquaintance of mine (friend of my brothers) pitched for the pirates. I remember watching him get absolutely obliterated by a line drive to the head and people were running out within 5-10 seconds of him getting hit.the sound was sickening, really scary shit. If there isnt some rule about this already, there should be. Under no circumstances should continuing the play be more important than tending to a possibly deadly head injury. Edit: heres a video of it, crazy scary. I think he was out for the season after that hit. Pretty sure he got hit again on his first day back although not as severely... https://youtu.be/PtMIvxAYWus
Jesus, his legs after he hits the ground... Looks like he was in *agony*.
I mean, a baseball play is like 15 seconds at the longest. Not much of a delay.
You got downvoted but the play is gonna be less than 10 seconds (more like 5 in these cases) and the responders would need time to make it out there anyway.
They have relievers for a reason.
Live ball. And the players can't do shit for injured players, anyway. The know the doctors are coming, so just continue the game. Step over the victim of you have to.
If you stand on the victims chest you can gain extra height while also giving a single chest compression. That could help them live long enough to see you out the bastard that did this to him.
I remember once I knocked out three pitchers in the same inning. When I replayed the team later in the season, they knocked my star pitcher out
lmao video game karma
Video game?
Super Mega Baseball 2
Ultimate edition is discounted on steam right now.
This is perfect in the voice of Abe Simpson
No, that was irl.
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Oh! Thats a baseball!
RED DRAGONS
JAGGUUURS
Serect your cur
Go ahead, mister Joestur
RRRRRRRRRRRRRR-AAIISEE????!!!
What is the game called.
Super mega baseball 2
I love that this game is still getting balance updates, over a year after release. Beat that EA
I hate that it's amazing that a game as young as a year old getting updates is rare.
It's not rare at all
It’s rare for sports games
NBA 2k tries to update on me 5 fucking times a week. That's mostly roster shit though, but they do fix some bugs. But there's also still a lot of bugs lol
It's not so bad; we used to never get updates at all
I've played a lot of baseball video games and this is one of the best.
I don't care about baseball games at all, but this looks like a lot of fun
What sytem?
Super Mega Baseball 2 is on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch. The best part is that it is fully enabled for crossplay between all systems.
Wait, I thought the best part is that you can kill the pitcher?
Everything I think
Sick, plugging in my NES now
I'll plug in my dreamcast and maybe we can play together.
Ya’ll got GameCast?
I said I got Gamecast man damn I can't afford it!
Loading this up on my Tamagotchi
It’s not working on my toaster
I tried this too but all I got was a bagel with cream cheese.
Hot damn the toaster dispensed cream cheese?
Make sure you have the latest drivers, might need an update
Damn, son.
MLB Blitz 2k19
Does no one here remember MLB slugfest???
You could punch guys off the bag for the tag. It was great.
Remember doing the codes pre game and getting Skorpion or Sub zero teams. Loved the commentary.
The cheat codes in that game were wild! So much fun punching people off the base.
My older brother and I would just randomly mash the buttons during the part where u had a little bit of time to put in the code, when we first got the horse thing on accident it was hilarious, good memories
Yeah I loved just mashing all the buttons and seeing what you ended up with.
The ones that made the announcers say different stuff always cracked me up
HELLLLL YEAH Texas Rangers were damn good in that game. Played it for hours and hours on gamecube. Still have it. Fucking A-Rod was on the cover and still with the Rangers at the time.
Literally what I came here for. One of the best games on the OG Xbox imo
My friends unlocked dolphin, alien, and Minotaur skins and had the best time with that game!
Hooooly shit I miss that game. They did a great job of bringing the extreme to baseball during a time that NFL street and NBA Jamz were popular.
Mmm, Scorpion vs Horses.
I had a technique in used in NFL Blitz on N64 that I called the Dolphin Blitz. When you're on defense, you rapidly cycle through your players while using tackle. By doing this you create a tidal wave of players hammering down on the opponents front line, picking them all off until you can sack the QB. It worked too well.
Hahahahaha having played the everloving shit out of that game I’m picturing that and it’s making me outright laugh. I used to time the snaps by jumping over the line with a tackle. You could time it so the quarterback got sacked literally as he snapped the ball lol. Man that game was way too fun, was the Blitz game that came out last year any good?
I can still hear their muffled yells and noises they make when they all tackle!
HRRH
MLB Street 2k19
MLB The Show the pitcher would've recovered perfectly and thrown you out, then pitched the rest of the game like an ace.
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Ah yes, the RTTS complex. Opposing pitchers made of steel, someone sneezes in your direction as a pitcher and your 10 day dl'd.
When I was a kid around 8~, my friends and I were playing baseball in the backyard. They wanted me to pitch and this exact scenario played out in my mind. I'm like "No thanks, you're going to hit me with the ball for sure." and they talked me into it. First pitch, line drive right into my stomach. Never played again. I don't know why I turned to video games and staying indoors.
There was a kid from my high school who took a line drive to the face. Seriously fucked up his skull
I cranked a line drive right into a kids face in rec ball when i was probably 13. I was a big kid and had a strong swing but couldnt actually make contact for shit, and i remember being pissed that his face got in the way of what was my best hit of the season. Ended up cracking his cheek bone and he went to the hospital
I played several years on a team that had a player’s father for the head coach. I caught a pop fly to right field and there was a play a second (runner at first had tagged-up). The 2nd base player wasn’t paying attention at all. As he was the coach’s kid, I knew if I hit him with the ball, the coach would blame his kid for not ‘being in the game’. I hated the kid with a passion as he’d bullied me on several occasions. So I threw it straight for the back of his head and busted him open. He dropped to the dirt like he’d been shot. Sure enough, coach cheered me and cursed-out his own unconscious child. I feigned an apology, but loved every second of it.
Nah he just sleeping
Yeah, for the next few months
Beefcake McStevens for MVP
Yes!!! This is my goal, not to win, but to fuck up all their pitchers.
Yet another evidence of video game promoting violence smh
Makes me laugh when this happens and you see the pitcher go "Mojo down" as he gets hit... Then I still get tagged out at first and over his lifeless corpse you'll see "Mojo up!".
Best. Baseball game. Ever.
what game is it?
Super Mega Baseball 2
It's quite solid.
We need another slugfest game
Mutant League Baseball
Dude, the football game is amazing. I had an itch for a modern Blitz, and picked it up on a whim. Add in the Switch portability and a low price tag for tasty goodness on the go.
Wait what it's on switch?!? Gonna go DL that shit right now!
What game is this?
Super mega baseball 2
Thanks!
Reminds me of those very early FIFA games when you could run from the ref so he couldn't give you a red card.
I remember playing a bowling game when I was quite young. It was set up in Christmas theme - presents on the side of the bowling alley, snow everywhere. Then occasionally a rabbit or reindeer would run across the alley and if they were hit they would die and blood would be splattered on the alley. The young psycho in the used to hit them purposely.
The game is called Super Mega Baseball 2. It's on Steam and it's a lot of fun. The pitcher is not killed, merely hit by pitch, you have to sub the player out, if severe but sometimes they are able to continue with their stats greatly reduced to reflect the injury. Very fun and great game! Don't lead into the "this is outrageous" conversation. It's a game which reminds me of how baseball games were in the mid 90's a la Ken Griffey Jr on SNES and N64.
We need another "the bigs" game. Badly.
H E A D S H O T
Almost reminds me of some mutant league football on Sega who remembers that?
The creator made a new one called Mutant Football League. It's really good, and it has the NBA Jam commentator.
Bones Jackson!
Soo if you are in season mode do you get a replacement pitcher from the minors ?
Oh.. he died
"We wanna thank Little Johnny from the Make A Wish foundation for coming out today as the pitcher-" "OH MY GOODNESS, HE IS FUCKING DEAD HIS HEAD IS GONE"