Kapow!

I remember playing this, might actually give it another go!

Somehow this reminds me of a former forum regular TinyE

iirc he loves Baseball

Cool, lots of great releases/upcomings all happening kinda at once lately. The genre may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I think it's good to see anytime we get another DRM-free sports game here.

Jaleco sure was a publisher of below average batting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI4RxDcESDU


Here's some guy reviewing both of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_lW0vEnmpc

It's no Tecmo Super Bowl, that much I'll say.

Tried it out and controller support is pretty spot on with no issues to speak of.

Best part is it does feature multiple saves states so you can jump in and out of a game at any time.

Rival Turf was probably better than Final Fight on SNES. It's a highly underrated game.

I said Below Average, not 0000.
They published some fair games.

It's been decades since I played Bases Loaded for the NES.
It had rather nice graphics and animations for its time. I found the pitcher animations enthralling, he turns his head if you have a runner on 2nd base before pitches.
I remember a batter (maybe Jersey?) with high batting avg of .369. A pitcher from another team could pitch fastballs over 100 mph. Odd that I remember these details all these years.

Bases Loaded was a classic. I remember the pitching animations too, felt ahead of its time. Crazy how those little details stick with you.

What on earth is happening in this screenshot?

Ball is near first, first baseman has missed a slide, second baseman is running towards ball.

Nah, it's gotta be third. I'm assuming that in the overlay the white cross is the ball and the brown one is the batter running to first. So it's the third baseman diving, but why was he playing right on the bag? Meanwhile the shortstop on the bottom left was playing all the way behind second. No wonder they missed a routine grounder. And the pitcher(?) is chasing the ball into left field... It's just a weird scene.

Then there's the guy on the right. I guess he's the third base ump, but for some reason he's squatting like a home plate ump and looking at the line instead of the ball. Or maybe he's a disgruntled fan expressing his displeasure about this lousy defense by taking a dump on the field.

Being better than Final Fight on SNES though is a pretty big achievement.