What was your first baseball "game" or "video game"?

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What was your first baseball "game" or "video game"?

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How did you get the bug?

I realize that baseball is a life-long obsession for most.... but was there a moment, or a particular board game or video game that eventually steered you to the immersive world of OOTP? What made you want to be a baseball GM?

Being a relative youngster within PEBA, mine was Hardball III on Super Nintendo/PC in 1992. A great game (I recommend people to try it, it is one of a kind), and one that you could customize quite a bit. As a kid, "Angels in the Outfield" gave me the baseball bug, and Hardball III solidified it. The rest of my path is explained in another thread here.

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The first one I had was the "Baseball" game for the first Gameboy. It had a system where you could enter a code after a game to save your position in a season. I used to go through the entire 162 game season, keeping track of all stats.

After that it was "Base Wars", which is a robot baseball game where force out are resolved by 1 on 1 combat. It was a very silly game, but I enjoyed it immensely.
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Front Page Sports Baseball 94 for me. After we had run a very successful FPS football league we branched out into baseball. My all time favorite baseball game was MLB Showdown, a card game. That really oozed baseball flavor. Lots of fun and fast to play. We could get in a whole game over a lunch.
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I stumbled across Season Ticket Baseball and grabbed it at a local computer store. I think it was 1999 or maybe 2000. I know it was before my kids were born. My wife would watch crappy TV in the evenings and I started messing around with baseball sims while having a few glasses of bourbon. By the time my 2 boys were born, it made perfect sense to pass the time simming baseball on a computer in the evenings while I occasional helped out with the little ones. They are not so little anymore.
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My first baseball game was All-Star baseball and you spun the wheel, this was back in late 70's. Then I got Pulsonic Electronic baseball which then I evolved to Head-to-Head baseball. Then I went to Pursue the Pennant(cards). Then MicroLeague baseball to Earl Weaver baseball.. Back to Pursue the Pennant (until it went kapoot).

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Leones wrote:Front Page Sports Baseball 94 for me. After we had run a very successful FPS football league we branched out into baseball. My all time favorite baseball game was MLB Showdown, a card game. That really oozed baseball flavor. Lots of fun and fast to play. We could get in a whole game over a lunch.
FPS Football was one of the best sport games around. The best Football game with worst graphics, but smartest plays and ingame play was by a company XOR.

The baseball game by FPS sucked. I actually have 2 of them in the wrappers still..
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Alleghenies wrote:...The baseball game by FPS sucked. I actually have 2 of them in the wrappers still..
You're missing the great sounds tracks from the FPS games. Crowd noises, cheers, boos, pop corn vendors, hecklers etc ... "Hey! Ho!" :)
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Leones wrote:
Alleghenies wrote:...The baseball game by FPS sucked. I actually have 2 of them in the wrappers still..
You're missing the great sounds tracks from the FPS games. Crowd noises, cheers, boos, pop corn vendors, hecklers etc ... "Hey! Ho!" :)
I have them also opened, I heard the sound tracks, but the game still sucked :-)
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