 Ssssmmm... That's drunk! Hello everyone! Uh, welcome to this special edition of Drunk Friend. Uh, we're doing an LP and I have a very special guest, his name is Travis. You may be familiar with his work over at The Ole Poly Media. And he and I have a podcast together called Drunk Friend. We've done 107 episodes so far. and uh yeah we just just to to kind of break things up a little bit for both of us we're going to be playing some dusty diamonds all-star softball on eddy s how about that yes super excited i don't know can you handle my fast pitch you need slow pitch for you i want fast pitch i want all i want that smoke um yeah and what's fascinating about this game so you've you've never played this game before right other than today to make sure i could get it working man i am unfamiliar even as the nest guy this is yeah this is the timing i didn't know about this game either but it was a patreon request from a long time ago back when i got uh i had a patreon and uh i was shocked at how much stuff was in this game first of all this is classic sandlot style softball where we're playing in parks we're playing on the edge of cliffs we're playing in schoolyards and then the way this game is struck uh structured for single player it has you uh beat all five computer opponents on each of these parks before unlocking the sixth to get to professional and then we play a team called the amazons who are ridiculously ridiculously tough to beat but um let's just do cliff for this game okay all right and here's our rules you see we got place playground style rules here batter is out if a fly ball is caught over the homerun line but if it lands over the homerun line it's a homerun there's no fence on a lot of these parks it's just it's just a line the ball rolls through a guardrail uh it's a ground rule double i think there's a right field guardrail that's just like open and it's possible to just hit a ground wall through there it's like it's almost like pinball at this point uh the batter is out if a foul ball is caught on the fly now let's get to the if you want to skip past this now we get to create our lineups look at these guys oh my gosh just going by faces yeah we're just going by faces and i love it because we each get to pick from 60 different players 60 of them wow what a roster what a roster i'm seeing some names here too i'm gonna yeah we got clark and i actually wrote down some of these names because i went through the manual and it is hysterically funny does the manual give some stats some deets oh yeah the manual is 30 pages long which is really stupidly long for a uh baseball game but um lots of here these guys i'm gonna get get a guy named woody that's it budcat we're on my team bud get babe i'm gonna get raw that sounds like a guy that could just crush it but yeah you get to pick your own lineups and you pick your own players and you pick your own team name eight is the every there's 26 different team names oh my gosh i'm gonna be the dweebs i'm gonna be the nerds how perfect i got a zelda on my team i think i'm gonna win uh just for that but yeah i wrote down some fun facts about this game because i went through the manual and the way the players they're not just random and personalities and stuff they are they all have specific skills uh some guys are better pitchers than others some guys are better pitchers in specific parks than other players oh wow well it only made contact you'll swing and bunt there dang that ball's flying man no wonder they call it faster softball they're not messing around all right we got the dweebs and the nerds here sid versus eddie and i'm eddie and yeah this dude's doing this my guy's got a windmill i'm the kind of guy that swings at everything in a baseball game i'm just gonna throw it down that's more fun your guy had a grip what is your guy wearing a chicken suit or something i don't know look that bad that's a club it looks like he's wearing a chicken like he's the guy that peter griffin always plays oh my god oh look at that off the cliff got a whole what is yeah that's the fence they're talking about if it rolls under there it's a ground real double isn't that great that's amazing i love that about this game this game has that like schoolyard charm which i really really really like there's no other game like it and i love that they added so many details to all the characters not just like visually but like uh in terms of like you know who can do what oh nice nice layout yeah it's just missed it all right here we got gene wearing sunglasses too cool uh gene made him live gene all right here we got chuck and you're also pitching an eddie yeah i swing at everything i move around the box can you put any stank on these pitches or is it all straight it's pretty much all straight it's softball so it's not like griffin baseball all right where you're right all right as see now this is zelda a witch that hits with a bat or hits with a broom rather oh interesting oh and she crushes it that was just foul just a bit foul oh we're looking at extra bases here god dang it come on oh you're guys slow like controlling everybody yeah you are this is our bi baseball style fielding better or for worse here we got to peter peter steel and you do move around that batter box you're squirrelly chuck chuck charles barkley back there oh i was hoping that go over the fence or under the i should have just thrown it to first all right here we got leon didn't get some outs dude got runners over the corners but yeah the the actual gameplay of this game not that great it's pretty much just an even more basic version of rbi baseball but it is still uh it's good enough i they do enough with all the different parks that's right and all the different players that makes this really fun you got a kid here that's basically got a 38 year old man's hairline looks like cow gas going by uh the name dizzy the alias dizzy there we go oh and you really got to put the the bat the meat of the bat on the ball to get a hit yeah you do well the thing is is that some of these guys can't hit worth a damn like maybe like their their specialty might be like base running or or stolen you know stealing bases or fielding or it could be anything or just uh batting at specific parks certain games take place at certain times of day so there's even a day night cycle in this game which is just ridiculous i love the uh the the emotive faces after they do something now oh can i go too nope i shouldn't have done that that's an out yeah that guy's got a cannon what a throw is each row over there but yeah even if you don't like baseball oh oh oh big e on the play oh that's probably an in the parker no i'm not no i don't i'm not testing your guys arm over there like half your team is wearing did you just pick guys that wear sunglasses on your team like half your team is where it is like wearing like josecan saco type shade oh my god that's out of here that's out of here in the left field is that a two run shot that's a two run shot gash dang we take a two one lead here in the bot is this bottom two yeah second i think you only play the seven innings right i think so yeah you got this guy named gary who apparently has butt heads here slicked back with the huge forehead oh here's my guy babe oh yeah i gotta keep it away from that guy oh that's how you lay out okay a little late all right come on this is your chance come on catch and yeah obviously the graphics in this game are not exactly the best but uh they don't need to be oh is that going yard that's going yard i gotta go and hang it over the middle of the plate there's a bit of a dance to it though you want to like you know you want to throw it to where it's you know they're not there they're going to get it on the meat the sweet spot of the bat right it's typical uh pitching controls here like up hold up when you pitch and uh you um do a slower pitch down the fastball all right three to one yeah fielding's kind of forgiving there's a there's a black vortex around your player that will catch it usually uh i wanted to point out one difference between slow pitch and fast pitch is that slow pitch has uh 10 fielders so you've got four outfielders um and uh you've got 10 people in your lineup instead of nine my guys running oh my god correct that's going god this is like a modern major league baseball game right now there's nothing but nothing but cans of corn flying over cliffs man my 47 year old right fielder just cranked it look the little the little guys that really are this is graphically this is not the best game but i feel like i'm playing with those play mobile toys those little people that fit in the holes yeah yeah play mobile i haven't heard that name in a really long time did you play softball growing up by any chance no i mean like wreck wreck league kind of stuff maybe but mostly baseball mostly baseball yeah yeah i wasn't able to play that's that's fair all right my god that oh my god my guys my guy is glacially slow damn it that was very slow what's with your first baseman over there what's he's got horns that's the guy that cranked that first shot with his horn yeah horny bat with his horny bat yeah his name is diabolo actually is it oh okay yeah oh that makes sense i wrote down some names um yeah i went through the manual of this game and uh it was a good time it was um uh the every character has a has a at least a one word name um some guys are just named rip one guys one my witches named zelda as you saw there's a guy named slash but then there's also if you're not interested in playing as those guys you can also play as uh froggy mcfarland you can also have last names too oh yeah gary migillicuddy oh get out of here migillicuddy's like that's always the name i come up with when i'm in a pinch um there's also ace mcface there's uh i'm not making these up uh sparky knuckle drag wow or no i'm sorry i said that wrong sparky knuckle drag interesting man this guy does he has a this guy this guy just crushes it i am not gonna i'm not gonna take any chances i need to pitch around him oh third baseman cow gas all right we might need to be careful on this guy what my my pitching has no movement yeah i didn't i didn't think you could move it my guy just throwing it right down the pipe yeah my my pitches aren't bending at all does your batter start out swinging every time you enter an inning like mine does man i've got a good lineup that can hit it's just i don't have any clutch hitters come on babe but um yeah the manual in this game is fascinating because it really is just like i've got this glacially slow guy at first play yeah this is a this is oh misplayed come on you can also do the typical thing where i think i can get a pinch runner if i need it oh wow what are you doing cow gas what did you do hey jump what is he doing he's flying floating what is happening what the hell is going on what was that i didn't know you could do that i don't think i did anything i think this yeah this has like uh oh get out of here no no go foul i want to hit a ground ball under there but yeah it's burnt oh no there's nobody what an idiot what an idiot move he's running away with it folks hopefully out of that inning jeez louise yeah that was a all right i need a new pitch this is your last batter eddie and i'm pulling you eddie's dominating we talked about no he's not i want to see if somebody can uh i'm gonna put in my closer so how do i do that i think i can only do that in between innings i've done i'm just hitting dribblers i think your lineup just isn't isn't that good i think i gambled and picked the exact wrong team yeah i i think you got like the best field did you see how kyle gas just like jumped up into the sky and stayed up there like i think that's like his his gimmick his quirk is that that's what he can do but he's an absolutely terrible hitter terrible at everything else but he's basically a he's part of the x-men with his powers he just run around a ground ball that's how he's afraid he's afraid of it yeah i think he's afraid of his own power look at that yeah he's got ups he should be playing basketball what's he doing playing baseball nice play oh safe hit select and see if you can change pitchers i don't think i have a relief pitcher that i can pick from i'm pushing it now pushing start pushing select nope didn't seem to work huh maybe we just don't have any replacement oh that's gone oh it's off the wall or off the cliff don't call it a comeback uh-oh down the line eddie come on come on as a check throw them out throw them out throw them out got it oh you might get a turn two on that you got green mohawk up here go go back to the front what are you doing don't you love the little frowny face that comes up when someone that was always one of my favorite things about griffy baseball was the when a guy got thrown out he would um just like put his hands on his knees and shake his head yeah just like disappointed with himself always like that when uh if you waited too long to to pitch the batter would turn around and knock on the tv oh come on what is wrong with me that was terrible base running well but it ended up working out in my favor it worked out yeah all right here's zelda with her broomstick and our hat come on kyle wrong guy see oh kyle guys can only do one thing and they stuck him at third base for some reason but uh sweet baby kyle all right all right one last shot oh no i hate this guy oh got him to go what the heck my guy was moving the cut out yeah and i couldn't control it was weird oh no come on oh man i'm nervous and gene scares me gene is cranking it yeah he's he's terrifying probably gonna whip on this next sunglasses he's too cool oh gene oh kyle gas still still can redeem himself kyle come on swing it too early bud oh oh you hit a ground rule double nice under the fence i love it oh what he dropped with e oh come on oh on the board not going quietly into the night i'm cutting that third baseman's ass he's cut his ass is cut go home that picture looks like she was giving me double fingers that made me laugh kyle gas his ass is out kyle you idiot all right i'm in a jam well good game good game there it is that was a good game yeah that was a pretty that was a pretty good game you you that was a spirited comeback attempt but kyle gas kyle gas ruined it classic gas man classic gas was fun yeah this was fun i just wanted an excuse to show this game off and i think when it comes to sports games sometimes it's best to just play it and show an entire game and what it's like and i this is a new favorite for me like i love all the little quirks this game has like kyle gas leaping into the air like what that makes no sense to me but uh yeah this is a fun one uh thanks for taking the time trav yeah no problem this was a lot of fun it's got a lot of personality and it's definitely when i'll revisit and when i post this uh there's hopefully on the day you watch this uh maybe we should like post it on the same day or something i don't know we'll work it out but um yeah you'll have a uh video on your channel of us playing this game so if you liked what you saw here go over to nest friend and there's more of that where that came from so thanks for watching have a great rest of your day folks cheers cheers