Intellivision Sports Game Baseball
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at
12:31 pm
Gameplay footage from the Mattel Intellivision game Baseball. Recorded off of real hardware.
Yes mi friend, I remember it was funny to play alone, because my dad did not want to play against me, cause everytime I won…!!
It was a nice video game in those times, sorry about my english is not good..!!
Miguel from Mexico City
Screw playstation and x box! I’ll take atari or intellivision any day! No need to be sorry, your english is fine Miguel.
My friend and I would play this just to hear the umpire “belch” YER OUT!! Then I bought a coleco vision and it changed my life!
games are alot simpler back than way back when
have to say great game. Great memories of this with my parents and family. I actually pitched a perfect game once!
Simple games from simpler times….ahhhhh the good ol’ days!
I played this all the time when I was a kid, but there were some serious fundamental flaws. Once you learned how to control the fielders, the only possible way to get a hit was to thread it between short and center. Anywhere else, and an infielder could nab it (quite often, the pitcher) and toss it to first, resulting in an automatic out.
Even if you hit it there, you could never get a double or a triple. You had to be lucky enough to get a homer, or 4 hits in a row, to score.
It was a fun game but I remember once in a while the baseball could go off the screen and there was no way of getting it back so you would have to quit the whole game.
Favorite game of all time
I remember playing this the first time and
thinking”Wow,I can’t beleive how awesome these graphics are”
Loved when the ball would inexplicably
disappear.
1:12 It sounded like, Yewout! I love 4-bit talking noises.
man this brings up memories
You’re not kidding; I would’ve busted the scoreclock on these clowns 20+ years ago.
I remember my best friend and I played each other to a 15-inning scoreless game, only for him to finally punch one across the plate. Simpler times but to us, that was the F’N World Series….
I threw 2 perfect games against my friend Tom Humeston. He soon stopped playing against me. He nearly had a fit when he hit one of the wall in left center, my center fielder through to short and I threw him out at first. Happened both games. Awesome memory.
The thing I remember about this game was how tempermental the damn buttons were! Sometimes you’d have to press 50 times to have the guy throw to 1st base.
I think I was about 5 when I first played this game with my older brother. 20-some-odd years later, I could still remember the “Yer Out” sound. Just thought to look it up today! lol. Ah, refreshing! Such a classic and I remember now that the sound was startling to me as a 5 year-old. Ha!
My bro and I still do that “Rgyeroowwgt!” noise to each other when the other says something stupid. Haha
Those outfielders have amazing arms.
I used to have this game and me and my dad would play all the time. I love it now this is a great game but if you lost the overlays you were F-ed!!!
This and D&D were great Intellivision games. Played Baseball on IV so much, I didn’t need the overlays, plus they’d keep slipping out anyway…
“YOUR OUT” Scared the shit out of me
1:27 C’mon, the pitcher should have caught that!!When your pitching you keep your right thumb on the 5 pitcher button and your left hand on shortstop!Any help here??We used to play this game for days and after we all got as good as each other it was kick ass!
As comic book guy on the Simpson’s says,’BEST GAME E-VER’
Good times back in 84
this is the best baseball title i ever played. Even with today’s advanced graphics, this classic is tops for me.
On defense, I would stick the second basemen right on the bag since the pitcher always shifted to that open space after the pitch is delivered. You pull more double plays that way on hard grounders.
★★★★★
This game was actually pretty dumb once you figured the controls and got fairly quick with them. 90% of fielding could be done with the pitcher. Most hits could be grabbed either by an infielder or the right fielder, who could easily throw the runner out at first, even from the right field wall. If both players were competent, only way to really get a hit was to thread the ball between shortstop and pitcher, and even then, it could only be a single. So you could only hit singles or homers.