Star League Baseball

[ersemola]

seem to be more quicly than the c64 version

[tweeber69]

Someone just gave me this game and a few others, along with a Commodore 64. Looks like fun.

[uhfvidiot]

I loved this game, including all the little details like organ music. The only thing that bothered me that I still remember is that the right fielder would throw you out at first on a ball that should be a single.

[discolando]

Looking at the team colors, it looks like the Royals and Angels circa 1983.

[HardWarUK]

Brilliant! And love Lemon64!

[JUANIGNACIORR]

COLECOVISION !! 

[ChevyRoll48]

a game with atari sounds but NES graphics .

[fatograph]

Your CF sucks.

[stormcrow7878]

Dude, You are WAY LATE on the fast ball!!! I remember having this game for my C64, once you timed it, you never lost. Until you did, you never  won. This was of course the precursor to Hardball (which changed baseball video games 4ever!)

[Paul19807]

This game was hard. The ball moved super fast relative to the fielders and you would get killed if you weren't experienced... like 42-0 killed.

Even after I'd played it for a while I would still lose sometimes, and I'd hardly ever hammer the computer in the way that I would in Hardball. I kinda liked that about the game.

[blacksabbath21641]

sounds like the two and a half theme song in the beginning

[NightSprinter]

@blacksabbath21641 Ha! You're right. It does sound a bit like the opening to Two and a Half Men at the start.

[GBev2K]

In 1985 a friend and I played a World Series using this game on his Commodore 64 and my Atari 5200. I remember beating him in game 3 at his house. I had the bases loaded (score 0-0) and he threw a pitch just as the phone rang. He yelled don't swing as he ran to the phone and I hit a bases clearing triple. He played the rest of the series under protest.

[primemover17]

This game was the bomb.

[classicgamer1968]

Thanks. Good video. I played this a lot in the early-mid '80's as a kid. Usually got beat but sometimes i'd squeak out a win.

Fun play and easy to learn. Sometimes the simpler the better, you don't need fancy 3-D graphics and surround sound, just good gameplay.

[Jeff98177]

This game also showed simulated final scores and a trivia question that had to do with another game that was coming out at the time.

[Dominik0444]

omfg

[ButteWhat]

Remember wanting to get this game....but never did, boy did I miss out...LOL

[Smythtown94]

Pretty conservative 3rd base coach. Computer should be up 10-0...

[LowellDevil]

Please stand for our National Anthem, and yet they only play the first verse. That's classic!

[nyyterp]

This game still has a very high replay value today. It was one of my favorite baseball games back then. I played this a lot until Hardball! came out a few years later. I usually enjoyed hearing the drum roll whenever you hit a homer or the anticipatory organ music with runners in scoring position.

What I also liked about Star League was the scoreboard updates/display and organ music between innings, something for the most part has been absent in the more contemporary baseball video games.

[soSUBURBIA]

Don't hear the National Anthem in sports games anymore.

Sad.

[Trance1972]

@soSUBURBIA

They still play it, it's just so many people are yapping to their neighbor or on their cell-phones.

Pisses me off.

[lordmikethegreat]

It was almost impossible to win against the computer. The thing would cheat!!! If you actually managed to win the game, you could send a picture of the end screen to gamestar and they'd send you a plaque honoring your accomplishment.  I managed to do it once... even took the picture, but I never managed to send it in.

[Videogamestwin]

Wow what a nice game

[1Braindamage]

ya use to play this with my friends all the time and the winter/summer games oh cant for get jumpman

[Jeff98177]

I played this all the time when I first got my own place. No Internet, no cable TV to speak of for a few days, so it was just me and this game...

[Baddude96]

to think that it became from this to HD and like realistic graphics thats unbeliveable

[jimbo32712]

yeah uh..There was no show or 2k8 25 years ago..There was barely an Original Nintento then. This was actually a pretty good playing game back in the day..Not enough homeruns though.

[guitarhero3xpert]

wow what a crappy game THE SHOW and 2k8

[DaveNC72]

That's just because you were swimming around in your dad's sack when this was out.

[kyleUFC15]

now compare the graphics to the show 08 lol

[doubleot]

i played this a lot. i think it's the only baseball game ever made from a side view. great stuff.

[GamesEmotions]

played hours and hours when I was a kid! Thanks for the video.

[JLTRAIN233]

hahah wtF?

[MeatWheelz]

I may have invested a week of my life as child playing this game.. I was so patethic that I kept stats :) This is the poor man's micro-league baseball, but still one of the all time classics, thanks for the vid!

[gbblackknight]

I thought I was the only one do keep stats in that game. I even made up two 4-team divisions and played a few seasons of that. Great fun...

[krantzbucks]

You are definitely not the only one to keep stats. I had my own teams and even made up baseball cards for the players.

[critical9]

as a kid this game never worked right for me, but micro league baseball was the best. I used to create new teams with the editor

[chiefroberto]

I kept stats too. I made up teams of wrestlers. Oh gawd! LOL! Also played as the Blue Jays and kept scores. I still might have those somewhere. I still remember the joystick controls for pitching and fielding. Good stuff.

[JBolser17]

What the heck??? We don't even have the National Anthem in today's baseball video games... whatever happened to the American Pasttime spirit???

[nickschuyler]

Wow. Nice GamePlay video. Thanks.

[stephenleal01]

This was one of the greatest baseball games ever created for its time. I loved it.

[adam3172]

Hard to beat the computer? No way! The computer was competitive, but I had better than a .500 record. LOL ... Man, who should I go with, Curves Cassidy or Heat Muldoon? Love it!

[biggscoop]

i loved that game. although it was damn hard to beat the computer, i beat it only the one time. I would turn it off and play that really crap basketball game made by the same people i think

[darkstonecastle]

The best baseball game ever!!

[lordmikethegreat]

This game was impossible to play against the computer... the computer would cheat so bad! If you ever managed to score a run (you certainly could never steal a base), the computer would come right back and hit a grand slam. It was so hard to win, in fact, that the company offered to send you a special plaque if you ever beat the computer. I did manage to do it, once, and took a picture, but never sent it in--the only film my dad had at the time was slide film... I still have that slide...

[gbblackknight]

You have to know how to steal bases in that game. You could lead off just far enough to not draw a throw from the pitcher, then take off just he begins to pitch the ball. If it was anything but a fastball, safe everytime.

[slap1328]

Similar to Intellivisions baseball game.

[davidnkaree]

Wow, baseball graphics have really changed! From robot like figures to superimposing your face on a player's body... amazing.

[nyyterp]

This game still holds well today. I first had the game on cassette, and it would take 10-11 minutes to load!

I always got a kick out of the drum roll (great sound effect!) whenever you hit a homer.

Every time I played against my friend, he would choose the "heat" option because he knew I was terrible at hitting those fast balls. I eventually got the best of him, getting the classic grand slam on a 3-2 count with two outs. :)

[bizzo518]

omg ...brings back silly memories..lol...i used to play this game all the time..!

[hardgayramen4ever]

looks more fun then watching real baseball

[samusarans]

Hahahaha! You got owned!

[guardiane]

Hey, I was good at that game when I was 6 lol.

[samusarans]

I probably would get owned too, but still! lol

[FatKidsRuleTheWorld]

I wish they would hit all the copies of this game with a sludgehammer

[Panpizza15]

exciting...

[davidinla36]

Intellivision was better!

[itstheit]

c64 puts Intellivision in a headlock, and Intellivision passes out!

[davidinla36]

Commodore 64 was a toy computer. Was the worst thing to program on as well. Intellivision's original Keyboard Component (which was never released because of pricing issues) would have kicked the pance off the C64!

[itstheit]

Ah, but now, we'll never know!

[itstheit]

Oh, and I ALSO programmed on the c64 and it was awesomefun (sometimes, to triple the fun, I added GOTO commands as often as I could, sometimes every second line).

[coconuts00]

god, baseball is so dull

[jjf1113]

I remember this game! Old school! America rocks!

[aznlilrs]

i just skipped the national anthem that part was boring

[Davethesilentone]

i didnt stand

[harvey625]

how rude...they said please

[harvey625]

you better have stood for the national anthem