R.B.I. Baseball (NES) Playthrough

A playthrough of Tengen's license-based 1988 baseball game for the NES, R.B.I. Baseball. Played as the Detroit team. R.B.I. Baseball is a localized version of Namco's プロ野球ファミリースタジアム (Puro Yakyuu Famirii Sutajiamu, lit. "Pro Baseball Family Stadium"), better known as "Famista", that was released on Nintendo's Famicom and Vs. System in late 1986. Atari brought the game to North American arcades in 1987, and to the NES in 1988 under their Tengen label. The NES version is notable for being one of three Tengen NES games to originally carry an official Nintendo license and to be later rereleased without. It was arguably the first NES baseball game to meaningfully improve upon what Nintendo had accomplished with "Baseball". It was the first console game to be licensed by the MLBPA and feature real players, and players are differentiated by their individual strengths and weaknesses. There are ten teams - eight based on MLB teams and two All-Star teams - to pick from, and the single-player mode pits your chosen team against the remaining nine in a no-frills tournament mode. The game compares well against    • Bases Loaded (NES) Playthrough [1 of 4]  , its primary competitor. The graphics aren't as elaborate or flashy, but they're clear and easier to read. The controls are more intuitively laid out, and though the AI doesn't put up much of a fight, it isn't nearly as buggy or exploitable as Bases Loaded's army of braindead simps. It's pretty easy to constantly whack the ball between the infielders once you get used to the swing timing, though. With R.B.I. Baseball, Namco did a nice job of building on the framework that Nintendo had established a few years prior. It's a solid mid-gen NES sports cart. _____________ No cheats were used during the recording of this video. NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!