Comments on: Bases Loaded 3 http://baseball-prose.com/2011/12/14/bases-loaded-3/ My Life And The Sport That Surrounds It Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nick Tavares http://baseball-prose.com/2011/12/14/bases-loaded-3/#comment-55 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:50:01 +0000 http://baseball-prose.com/?p=109#comment-55 Somewhere, there once existed all of my lineup configurations in a binder or folder, with different stats pulled from baseball almanacs and baseball cards, along with anything notable about them, like their batting stance or if they’d switched numbers (hello Lee Tinsley and your nos. 38, 26, 47 and 10).

I don’t really do video games anymore. I have a used PS2, and I play three games on it: NHL ’08, Sonic the Hedgehog, and occasionally MVP Baseball ’05. I had to recreate Kevin Millar and put Pedro Martinez back on the Sox, though.

]]> By: Andrew Cieslak (@AndrewCieslak) http://baseball-prose.com/2011/12/14/bases-loaded-3/#comment-52 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:24:11 +0000 http://baseball-prose.com/?p=109#comment-52 This is great. Reminds me of the many baseball games I played growing up for NES and especially Sega Genesis. One in particular was called World Series Baseball. My friend and I pretty much hung out every single day after school, this was high school. We had notebooks filled with stats (not advanced stats, mind you) because most games didn’t track stats back then. This one did, however.

We actually had trouble keeping games competitive because we were way too good at pitching. So we embarked on an insane project that involved more time trading than playing. We would essentially trade any hitter hitting under .200 from the NL to the AL, rendering the American League a sort of minor league, if you will. We were constantly looking at performance and shipping people off as soon as they dropped under the Mendoza Line.

When I think about it, it’s completely ridiculous but now I know it’s just a crappy sim engine more than anything.

Now I look at The Show for PS3 and can’t believe how far we’ve come from keeping stats in a notebook.

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