bbking67 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Before I got my 800XL, I had an Intellivision. Now many people know that the Mattel console had some very good sports games and I played the crap out of Intellivision Baseball. When I got the 800XL, there are a number of games and I still play some of them to this day! HardBall! - just a great fun baseball game and I played thousands of two player games for this one. Its underrated and super fun. I love the fact that this was eventually made into a cartridge! I only had the diskette version in the "album style" case. I recall really getting to know the whimsical player names and you really got to know their abilities and quirks! It was almost like they had personalities. MicroLeague Baseball - weird but fun game which is really more of a managerial simulation. The quirky Apple graphics (it must be an Apple II port) are good and the game is fun, but you really do need the key chart. I always played this one solo and it was fun. There were some expansion disks, but I don't recall having those back in the day (I'll have to check my originals--pretty sure I just had the main game). Still play it occasionally to current day! Starleague Baseball - This one is by gamestar and it has fairly good graphics. The diamond is slightly askew from the Intellivision game, and gameplay is fun! I remember seeing advertisements for this game in Electronic Games magazine in 1983 and it just looked so sophisticated to me at the time! RealSports Baseball - this might have been one of those 5200 conversions, but while I remember the game, I don't recall having played it much. The graphics sure looks spectacular! Anyone else have a perspective on this one? Now I checked on Atarimania and there are a bunch of other baseball games... I was a baseball fanatic as a teen, so if I knew about them (or had access to them) I would have tried them. Are there any others worth getting into? I see: Computer baseball IQ Baseball Baseball (several different games with this name) Major League Baseball All Star baseball Baseball (Sears, Inhome, Aim) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 38 minutes ago, bbking67 said: Starleague Baseball - This one is by gamestar and it has fairly good graphics. The diamond is slightly askew from the Intellivision game, and gameplay is fun! I remember seeing advertisements for this game in Electronic Games magazine in 1983 and it just looked so sophisticated to me at the time! I saw those same ads, and thought the graphics looked amazing! I never owned the games, but probably doesn't look quite as good fool screen as it does in a small magazine screenshot. 41 minutes ago, bbking67 said: HardBall! - just a great fun baseball game and I played thousands of two player games for this one. Its underrated and super fun. I love the fact that this was eventually made into a cartridge! I only had the diskette version in the "album style" case. I recall really getting to know the whimsical player names and you really got to know their abilities and quirks! It was almost like they had personalities. This is the only one I actually had, and played it a ton. It was really well done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Best lists Hardball as in stock - per the addendum, $19.95 or $9.95 for cart only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Just now, David_P said: Best lists Hardball as in stock - per the addendum, $19.95 or $9.95 for cart only. That's a bargain! Played a little single player hardball tonight and it was still fun. It's even better when you have two evenly matched players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Thinking about another BEST order later this year... but my Atari budget for the first few months of the year was just spent on a couple of POKEYMax... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I wish I could order from American suppliers, but the postage from the US is astronomical to either the UK or Australia. I did order a Fujinet from the States. No wonder postage costs a lot, it went via Japan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 My last order into Canada from the US came via UPS, who conveniently collected sales taxes... and charged a fee to do so that was greater than the taxes they collected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbking67 Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Somehow when things just come in via Canada Post there's almost never tax... But UPS tacks on their brokerage fees. I never order anything ups anymore for fear of unwarranted charges. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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