Yankees Pitcher Goes For Old-School Video Game Baseball

@Knoxximus ver. 5.66: Dammit...I meant 2k. T_T

@Michael Dukakis - Mets fan: Fat dudes make better power pitchers. Fact.

Awesome, thats actually the only baseball game I play as well.

Scott J

@omfgh4x: Super Bases Loaded.

I wonder if he's played The Show. He'd probably shit...greatest baseball game ever made.

gils0n

As a yankee fan I can confirm it is the NES they are playing it on. In fact it is the game of choice for the younger Yankee players with tournaments being the norm between players. CC was quoted as saying "...I was playing NES, no one has beat me in RBI baseball in weeks."

KeenePullus

I happen to prefer Baseball Simulator 1,000 for the NES. Each player has a special batting move and fielding move. Such as hitting the ball and making it have many shadows so it's hard to catch or being able to jump 50 feet in the air to catch a potential homerun ball.

folksingingrobot

@Superhacker75mil: yankee pride i love it.

i live about 30 mins from yankee stadium... i can smell another W from the 4 train... LETS GO YANKS!!!

@SeattleTed is proud to like Robert Zimmerman: haha. how much was ruth making when he was smacking the ball into the seats? or gherig? or dimaggio? seriously, if u had the money you would employ the best players available, thats not being evil, its called common sense. when NYY have generated the amount of victories and money over the years, its not that hard to see why they can spend the big bucks.

@Commenting_Ninja: CC isn't that old. He probably was a kid when it first came out, and I'm guessing it just stuck with him. I know that I must've been about 5 or 6 when I remember playing it, and I still try to play RBI whenever I uncover the cartridge from the wreck that is my unorganization.

bangbangblah

@ColinKSU: I can't imagine what that would be like to play with. Pixels would be the size of lego pieces!

bangbangblah

when exactly did the MLB make the move from stirrups to baggy trousers?

@Hoytzilla: I'm sure you'd like to take credit for that, but they began their downward spiral way before that. Like after 2000.

I'm not even a Yankees fan (Cardinals, so yes, I remember 2004 vividly), but man, the joke really is that that's when the Red Sox began their first upward spiral in nearly a century. People tend to forget that they had about as bad of a track record as the Cubs. Especially ESPN.

bangbangblah

@BelgianBadger: Y'know... if you look closely, you'll see that my avatar is actually Bert in one of his most famous file photos.

I love that man.

But he's never circled me. ;_;

baseball stars is a hall of fame game

Jrcphoenix

Baseball Stars for the NES is the single greatest home baseball videogame of all time.

MLB Power Pros is the closest thing that we have gotten since...and as good as it is, it is STILL a close second.

If 3K gets their collective heads out of their asses and finally announce Power Pro 2009 (which is online enabled), there may finally be a new baseball game king....in my book.

Great Baseball on Sega Master System was soo awesome... When you made a foul... instead of saying foul, it said "FOCK"

SanwariDatsun

Was he playing on an actual NES or on an emulator?

icedrake523

I fucking knew as soon as I saw we were there pick we were screwed DAMN YOU SI! Plus if I were CC I'd be on the treadmill if you catch my drift.

to view the exact moment the yankees began their downward spiral see here:

Hoytzilla

The San Fransisco Giants traveled to Cleveland last year and I covered the game. In the Giants' visiting locker room at Progressive Field, they had a top-loading NES hooked up to the gigantic HDTV in the middle of the room.

ColinKSU

@HolySmokesIveBeenBanned:

fyi, you're still a kid...but thank your brother / cousin / uncle / dad for showing you the classics at a young(er) age.

his old team, the indians, started this - in '07 they played rbi the entire season and had some kind of massive tournament i believe.

HiramEuryale

@evilralphwiggum: Speaking of wacky pitches I remember playing a baseball game for the SNES I think by Jaleco forgot what it was called. I would get one of the sidearm pitchers and keep him in the entire game so he would get tired. Near the end of the game you could get him to throw the ball super high in the air and it would come falling down over the plate for the occasional strike. They were really hard to hit so it was great fun playing against friends like that. Ah the classics.

omfgh4x

yea, about a yea or two ago on Jim Rome Is Burning he did a correspondence peace when he was saying that in the Indians club house they had bets and tournaments with RBI baseball. i thought it was cool that they played old school baseball. I cant find a video related to this, so my word will have to do.

RBI baseball is great. I also loved to play NHL on the NES as well. Having a team of nothing but fat hockey players has it advantages.

Kudos on him to love a classic, even though I hate the Yankees a lot. GO DODGERS!!!!!!

Burt keeps getting snubbed for the hall of fame, maybe next year will be the year. WIN TWINS

@SeattleTed is proud to like Robert Zimmerman: So, what you're saying is that even the people who live in a certain area or grew up around that area (NY, NJ, CT) need to avoid liking their home-team just so they can avoid being insecure, high-budget-loving front-runners?

Dude, the Yanks are the home team for us here in NJ (for some it's the Mets, but eh), and furthermore, just 'cause we like them doesn't mean we appreciate Cashman's "superstar cobblestone" approach to team-building, nor the new stadium's blatant money-grubbing tactics, or anything of the sort. We like the Yankees even if they've been losing, even if we're mad at them and insulting them, because they're the home-team. Also, "purchasing of championships?" Man, I hope you're just a trolling Bosox boyo or something of that sort, because otherwise you need to get your facts straight: despite skyrocketing player deals, the Yanks haven't won a World Series in nine years, and only two League pennants in that time frame. You think that matters to us, though?

I won't lie and say I've been able to follow them as devoutly as I did in 2005 and 2006, but I'll also never say I'm not a Yankees fan even if I'm not hardcore anymore. The point is, I'm not insecure about my baseball fandom, and neither are the rest of us.

LET'S GO, YAN-KEES!

EDIT: I will admit though, that Onion article, old as it is, is hilarious. ^o^;

@zanzibarlegend: Living in MA, it's kinda hilarious how seriously Red Sox fans take this competition. By kinda I mean incredibly. Personally, I prefer the Yankees, but I can see that the Red Sox are an excellent team too.

i prefer bases loaded myself.

TheKennedy

To me, High Heat is still the best baseball game. Too bad Microsoft bought it in the 3DO fire sale and decided to shelve it in favor of their own game which isn't even made anymore.

ThickSkinned

@SeattleTed is proud to like Robert Zimmerman: Emotional Coping Skills? Seriously? First, what makes you think I'm a Yankee fan due to their money? From what I remember, the Yankees won 26 world series without a lot of money players. And why would us fans turn to Notre Dame when they can turn to the team from greatest team ever in Title Town, The Green Bay Packers?

The_Green_Ninja

I'm sure he needs it to keep himself motivated. Recycled sports games coming every year are not the epitome of innovation, but rather a cash in. And he doesn't want to support that. He wants to support the game for what it is. By playing RBI Baseball, he is in fact showing his true patriotism as an American.

Regardless of it being on a Japanese console.

@evilralphwiggum:
I loved that game, too :) That one and Baseball Stars

n8n8baby

@SeattleTed is proud to like Robert Zimmerman: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27656

@Hey_Blinkon: You see what you did there? Yankee fans are lacking the emotional coping skills most societal members are born with, so they foster their insecurity with a sport which enables the purchasing of championships. One day a salary cap will be introduced, and they will have to resort to their other team...Notre Dame, the greatest football team in the universe.

@zanzibarlegend:
I'm not a Boston fan but I'll gladly say Yankees suck/I don't like the money groping b**tards.

HolySmokesIveBeenBanned

@Commenting_Ninja:
Well, I played RBI as a kid. I am only 15 right now. The NES had a long lifespan (in terms of players) beyond its production.

HolySmokesIveBeenBanned

@FriedConsole: seriously dude, this game and bases loaded from jaleco. good times.

@Hey_Blinkon: If the Yankees suck then every team in the MLB must not be able to hit a single ball.

The_Green_Ninja

@evilralphwiggum: We need another Baseball Stars. Not the lousy Neo Geo version, but the NES game. We need the Lovely Ladies.

@Hey_Blinkon: Phillies FTW!

-Skyline-

@Hey_Blinkon: Its obvious now you are actually blind. This is Kotaku, not Deadspin. Now take your heretic blathering there else you be slapped with a hand wearing 26 World Series rings.

i dont know about him but mlb 09 the show says otherwise

Boom-Chicka-Ah

@Hey_Blinkon: lemme guess boston fan? :P dont be mad, get glad lock bags!©

@The_Green_Ninja: yessir we are kicking ass and taking names.

There's a Yo Dawg in there somewhere...

Elvidnir: Purge the Heretic

@Hey_Blinkon: Please don't go there.

SabinDeus

Nes Baseball games are my favorite. I grew up on Baseball Simulator 1.000. All those wacky pitches, hits, and jumping guys. Fun stuff. Would love to see a remake of it like Tecmo releasing that new Tecmo Bowl game for the DS. Baseball Simulator DS? I'm so there.

@The_Green_Ninja: In the event you weren't informed, it has been discovered that the Yankees Suck.

Hey_Blinkon

Sounds like a viral Wii ad.

"Look, you can play RBI baseball in the VC! Just like Tubbs, here!"

lol

I just find it hard to believe that he is that into it when he can obviously afford the cutting edge and how old was he when RBI WAS cutting edge?

Commenting_Ninja

RBI Baseball is still a blast!! Most played game on my NES as a kid.

FriedConsole

That's actually really cool.

You go CC.

Hopefully you'll hear this at the end of the season, you old baseball gamer you.

The_Green_Ninja