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Baseball Simulator 1.000 Retrospective

Thomas Tripp

It’s March 1990. The Major League Baseball lockout is coming to a close, where the season starts a week later, and ESPN and CBS make their first debuts that season, after many years of it being covered on ABC and NBC.

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has plenty of great moments, such as Rick Fox’s game-winner over Oklahoma in the Midwest Regional 2nd Round, Tate George hitting a game-winning shot over Clemson and Christian Laettner hitting a game-winner over UCONN in the same arena.

The Lakers and the Pistons are battling for NBA supremacy, along with the improved Trail Blazers, Suns, Bulls, 76ers and Celtics. You still can’t find Super Mario Bros. 3 in stores and the new Ninja Turtles movie is about to hit theatres.However, this month showcased Culture Brain, USA releasing Baseball Simulator 1.000 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. nintendo baseball simulator 1000 cozzi cozzman thomas tripp Spectacular Magazine

You can play the game, either one or two players any way you want it – simulation (a regular-style baseball game) or ultra (playing baseball like never before!). You can also edit teams to your liking, creating your friends and family members or to whatever your liking is.

What’s unique about the season mode in the Ultra League, you can play baseball like never before! Thanks to striking out opponents, using wild pitches such as a fireball, super fastball, or ninja ball, and hits such as the missile, bomb, or meteor ones, to knock home runs right out of the park like never before! The Ultra League allows for plenty of offense to be played in the games, so don’t be surprised if you see football-like scores of 17-14, 20-17, or something like that.

There is also a season mode in the game, where you can go through either a 5, 30, 60, or 165-game season, as your main objective is to win as many games as you can to win the pennant! Don’t want to binge-play? Have some tasks you need to do? You can also take a break, thanks to its feature of saving your progress through a battery backup inside the cartridge.

Just like 1988’s RBI Baseball for the same system, Super Batter Up for the Super Nintendo, and Sports Talk Baseball for the Sega Genesis, this game has a ten-run “mercy” rule, which means if a team is up by ten runs, the game is over!

Baseball Simulator 1.000 has outstanding music for the baseball atmosphere. Check out this soundtrack – https://youtu.be/Tw3Oq7eJZc8.

Baseball Simulator 1.000 was a solid success for the aging NES. It’s considered one of the best baseball games for the system, along with Jaleco’s Bases Loaded, SNK’s Baseball Stars, Tengen’s RBI Baseball series, Tecmo’s Baseball and Bad News Baseball, and Ultra/Konami’s BaseWars. This game has outstanding gameplay and can be very competitive, especially playing in the Ultra League.

 

 

In December 1991, it would receive a sequel for the then-brand-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System called Super Baseball Simulator 1.000, which received a slight graphical facelift, yet retained many of the same features of the NES game. In 1995, there was supposed to be a sequel, but unfortunately, Culture Brain shut down its USA branch shortly after, therefore the game was canceled.

 

So, dust off that old-school NES and get ready for some long gaming sessions with your buddies on the Ultra League, and have some fun!! You won’t be disappointed as this cart goes for $10-$15 if you want to get it by itself, or if you want to go the complete-in-box route, get ready to spend about $40. Either way, you can’t go wrong with picking this up!