Nintendo Project: 10 Baseball Games

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Baseball, America’s supposed national pastime, represents a pastoral tradition in America that, if it ever existed, is long since dead, though at whose hands one cannot readily tell. A sport beloved by a particular rarified middle class impossibly distant from the very agrarian nature that the pleasant greenery represented by the baseball diamond

Comments

[best_ken_ever]

1. It is not a sufficiently popular sport.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_attendance_figures#Top_10_in_total_attendance

2. Japan and Cuba would kick our fucking asses to the curb
I feel that this is a really questionable statement. Many other countries' top stars now play in the MLB, which is one major reason why, when the World Baseball Classic comes around, the actual U.S. team doesn't destroy all competition. (Another major one being that not all of the top U.S. players participate, as they're otherwise about to get underway for a really grueling six- (or more likely seven-) month season.)

3. The baseball games are marked by one crucial problem - they are all the exact same gameThis is quite false. I find some games, like the Bases Loaded series, to suck quite a lot. The controls are awkward, the computer is Nintendo-hard, the game is just not put together well

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1) Oh, come now, Ken. You're not going to fall into the poor statistical trap of using total stadium attendance to measure popularity, are you? Baseball has by far the most games of the season of any of the sports listed. It would be difficult for them not to top that. Meanwhile, almost every NFL game sells out, and the season is paltry in size compared to baseball

[best_ken_ever]

1) As a statistician, I claim free reign on twisting numbers to suit my needs in order to measure the abstract concept "popularity". I wonder if all NFL games would sell out if there were 40 of them per team a season.

2) Maybe so.

3) Oh, that's right. RBI starts with "R". I'm sorry for Bases Loaded 1. That was just awful. I can't speak for 2-4. I've never spent a lot of time on Stars, but it seems like it's even better than my standby, Simulator. Stars seems to have a financial aspect to it, and I really look forward to finding a cartridge and putting some serious time into it. It seems really solid.

4) I have come to have pretty good controls. After 10 minutes of warm-up, I field more or less as well as the computer. It's not perfect, but neither is it. On what sort of console are you playing? My NES is pretty perfect, but my backup NES/SNES 3rd party thing I got on Amazon has a controller which is less than perfect, so I find it does not respond quite as well. Perhaps you are suffering from the same issue?

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Also, wait, you use a game where the pitcher can throw fireballs to model reality?