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I know that the Atari 5200 advertised the Real Sports games and they were cool but I'm really surprised that, considering the analog stick + keyboard (and later, the magnificent Trak-ball) that they never converted their older arcade sports games, specifically Atari Baseball, Atari Football, and Atari Soccer since those games utilized the analog trak-ball controller and had buttons for preset plays. That seems like it would have been stupid easy to adapt to the 5200. I think the Football and Soccer versions also had 4-player versions of the cabinets? I know it would be pretty expensive to have 2 (or 4!) Trak-ball controllers for the 5200 just to play those games but the joysticks would have been good enough, probably, and the keypads would have lent themselves perfectly for the play selections. Maybe they thought the games looked too primitive and they left that style to the 2600, which had no hope of recreating the look and play of these games without loads of flickering, probably. As a Trak-ball controller fan I'm biased, obviously, but I would have loved to have had a home version of Atari Football, especially one that wouldn't have ruined my hands with those giant trak-balls, hahaaha. And the Baseball version which I've never played. They could have added basic colors to the game for the field and the team colors (with an option for classic vivid black and white). But keep the Xs and Os for the Football game!
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This unusual baseball cartridge is a Taiwan Cooper variant that I found at Digital Press in Springfield, NJ for $1.99! I had to clean it and jiggle it around in the system for it to work. On the back of the cartridge it says made in Taiwan and since the text font is Cooper Black they've been known as Taiwan Cooper releases. From what I've read online no one knows who actually made these. ⚾
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I do a review and comparison of the two handheld electronic baseball games that started the craze in 1978.
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Adding back in the title screen from the disk version, which Atari took out for their XE Cartridge release. I'm using the XEX conversion, which doesn't include the simple Atari title screen from the XE cartridge release (another XEX version out there includes it). This is a lightly enhanced title screen, which changes some fonts, changes some colors, and adds some colors (+4). I'm also working on a more fully enhanced version, which will include a lot of edits for the graphics and a lot of color addition/changes. The PAL version has the colors optimized for PAL on the title screen only. I don't think the game itself considers PAL color differences. I may look into changing colors for PAL on the in-game later. HardBall (Title, NTSC).xex HardBall (Title, PAL).xex
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I posted this to the Bally Alley Yahoo group, but it might get more traction here. Plus, the AtariAge forums are much more popular-- and you don't have to be a member to view most of them. I'm using my library's special services to search the Newspaper Archive for Bally Arcade/Astrocade material: https://newspaperarchive.com/ This is a pay site, but I can use the website for free using my library card. I've come across some newspaper ads that I've not seen before now. I've noticed that in 1978/79, there are a number of ads from mom and pop TV stores around the country who are selling the Bally Professional Arcade for $300 (the retail price at the time). If you buy it from them, then they would throw in the Tornado Baseball cartridge for free. Here is an example of such an advertisement (This ad is from page 29 of the December 2, 1978 issue of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph newspaper): (Don't those kids look like they're having so much fun? Man, I love ads from the 1970s!) I've never seen this Tornado Baseball promotion anyplace. Since the promotion seems to be from different stores in various area of the United States, I wonder if this was something that Bally pushed when the system was first introduced. I've also noticed some ads from the same period of time promoting Tornado Baseball World Series tournaments at bowling alleys! Anyone ever heard of that before now? I may post an example of this separately. Did anyone here get a free Tornado Baseball cartridge with their Astrocade when they bought it in the 1970s? Adam
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I decided to offer many of my MSX games as 'bundles'. These games were bought during my summer trip to Japan. They are for MSX machines. Down the road, I will be offering MSX machines as reasonable prices as well. I picked these games up as they tend to require to least amount of Japanese language skills necessary to enjoy them. Domo arigatou gozaimashita! Twin Bee, National Baseball & Mini Golf http://r.ebay.com/tayQkL Exciting Baseball, World Open Golf & Midway http://r.ebay.com/esRHAo Champion Soccer, Exciting Baseball & World Open Golf http://r.ebay.com/X0yZIG Pac-Man and Queens Golf http://r.ebay.com/sRT4mF
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Hi all, just got back from Akihabara, Tokyo and have some MSX games to sell: PacMan http://r.ebay.com/Dorcuj Dig Dug http://r.ebay.com/UvLDWi Twin Bee http://r.ebay.com/B6Mbzd also http://r.ebay.com/DGKvSq Konami Soccer ( Futbol / Football ) http://r.ebay.com/XNSEH3 Championship Soccer ( Futbol / Football ) by Pony Canyon http://r.ebay.com/o9QC4I Mini Golf http://r.ebay.com/D1kryp Exciting Baseball http://r.ebay.com/AbaYPA MSX Baseball http://r.ebay.com/cMiVhx Color Midway http://r.ebay.com/wy6RSi Domo arigatou gozaimashita !! Carlos PacMan http://r.ebay.com/Dorcuj
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Hey Guys, I have a prototype of Earl Weaver Baseball for Sega Genesis. I think the most interesting thing about it is the date stamped on the proto cart. Here's some background: Back in the early 90's I used to go to this local thrift store with my mom and occasionally buy Sega games when they had them. All of the games were relatively cheap maybe a few bucks at the time. I came across this weird looking thing pictured below. As a kid I'd never seen anything like it, played it a few times, didn't really pique my interest because at that age I was much more interested in fighting games. So it sat in my closet and collected dust. Fast forward 20 years later: Last week I cleaned out my storage unit and started feeling nostalgic looking through all of my neglected Sega Genesis games. I saw this one and noticed that it said "Preliminary Version". Then came the next stage RESEARCH. I've spent the past few weeks trying to learn as much as I could about Earl Weaver and Electronic Arts to try and shed some light on why this game was never released on any console. During that research I realized that the ROM for this game was never dumped, and no known prototypes existed. Could it be? Could I have the only one in the world? Hard to prove and even harder to find any written proof anywhere that this game should have existed. I went as far as contacted a former game designer for EA sports. He started working for EA in the Spring of 1992 assigned the task of developing the software of another baseball game that never made it to retail shelves "Baseball '93" based on the same engine as Earl Weaver. The interesting part: Eddie Dombrower one of the original creators of the game, stopped working for EA in 1992; he got tired of making baseball games. They hired on some new staff to work on Baseball 93, in 1992. Why were they still testing a game in early 1992 when they were already planning on starting a new series, the port to Genesis from home computer's must have been a lot more difficult than they anticipated. By this time Earl Weaver Baseball II was already released on DOS. In my communication with the designer from EA, he had no clue that this prototype ever existed, which I thought was strange since he started working there only a few months after this was burned to the cart. A lot of unanswered questions, but a great piece of Video Game and Baseball history. Earl Weaver Baseball was a revolutionary baseball game for its time and it was a shame that it officially made it to consoles. But here it is, the "missing link", ultra rare prototype of one of the best Baseball Games in gaming history. Never released, and never found until now. TLDR; I found a rare baseball game from 1992, and researched a lot to figure out how rare it was. Still cant find another copy anywhere. One of one?
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eBay Auction -- Item Number: 141899062135 Here is your chance to own a piece of video game and baseball history. This is the lost game that never made it to video game systems, despite years of great success on home computers. This is for a extremely rare (possibly only one in existence) Earl Weaver Baseball "Preliminary Version" game cartridge for Sega Genesis. The game has been tested and works as a Alpha version game should. I have been in contact with video game experts and even staff that worked for Electronic Arts around the time this game was created. You can have all of that correspondence when you purchase this piece of video game history. An interesting story for one of the most advanced baseball games of it's time. This is one of the rarest Sega Genesis games currently in existence. Online research shows that the ROM for the Genesis version of this game has never been released and no known prototypes exist (until now).
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I remember when you used to get 17 cards in a pack, not 8, and they only cost you a quarter.
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At the Personal Computer Museum we have recently acquired a second copy of the reasonably rare Inhome Software "Baseball". Here are pictures I took yesterday showing the cart working on one of our Atari 800's ... you can also see the condition of the label (definitely not perfect) - but hey it's rare and it works! I would PREFER to trade it with another community member who will appreciate it and can help build our collection. You can see which Atari 8-bit items we currently have at our website (the link for Atari 8-bit is http://www.pcmuseum....oup=Atari 8-bit) - although of course I would even consider trading for other Atari items as well (or anything retro computing really). We are located in Canada so keep that in mind for shipping purposes. Of course, I would sell it as well but like I said a trade I think would work better. Let me know! thanks
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I got a box of loose Atari 2600 carts from a friend about a month ago in a trade and have been going through them since it is too hot to do anything outdoors. One of the carts is a Pete Rose Baseball cart by Absolute entertainment. I'm not a huge sports game fan, but something about these 2600 sports games I like. So, after cleaning the contacts I popped it into my 2600jr. and was quite amazed by what I saw. The graphics are actually really good, especially the screen for the pitcher and batter. The fielders aren't quite as good as that when the ball is hit, but still look decent. Sound is fairly good and gameplay seems good. This game is dated 1989 if I read it right and really shows how the old 2600 could be stretched. I mean it even wowed me when I got a look at it!
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I have a request: I wonder if anyone who has either a Super Action Baseball or Super Action Football cartridge (preferably both) could please do a longplay of these games (at least 5-10 minutes, hopefully longer than 20 minutes to get an idea as to how easy or difficult it would be to master it)??? Want to know why I am asking this? I am asking because there is nothing on YouTube that points me to gameplay videos for these two titles, or anywhere else on the internet, and I am hoping this thread may change that. My sister did buy Super Action Baseball, the game that is packaged with the Super Action Controllers, in 1983-84. Both games are to be used only with the Super Action Controllers (as all of you should know by now), along with Rocky Super Action Boxing and Front Line. The baseball and football titles were previously to be released as launch titles for the ColecoVision's 1982 introduction, to be called Head-to-Head Baseball and Head-to-Head Football, respectively. Thank you in advance, Ben Edge
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