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Baseball NES retrospective: Home plate for home gaming

We start at the beginning of the NES's life in Oct. 1985, with what I have arbitrarily pegged as the "first" NES release. Of all the games released alongside the NES at launch, Baseball appeared earliest in Japan, so it's the oldest of Nintendo's U.S. launch titles. It definitely feels its age, but it's not a bad game... merely one that's been surpassed by 30-plus years of countless developers working within a fixed rule set and doing their best to create the ultimate virtual expression of the sport. Despite its simplicity, there's plenty to say about Baseball...

English
  • Originally Aired November 4, 2015
  • Runtime 9 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Created October 19, 2022 by
    Paul Pinegar
  • Modified October 19, 2022 by
    Paul Pinegar