280 · Baseball Simulator 1.000
In Baseball Simulator 1.000 you can choose from four different leagues; three with six preset teams each and one where you can build the teams yourself from scratch. Face the computer or challenge a friend to compete in a 5, 30, 60, or 165 game season. Games take place in six stadiums.
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Show notes
- Precise Pitching, Bullseye Batting, and Far Out Fielding!
- NES Longplay
- Manual
- The 1.000 not exactly 1,000. More for a perfect average which would be batting 1.000
- Aside from SNK’s Baseball Stars, Baseball Simulator 1.000 was the
- only baseball game for the NES that allowed you to create your own team from
- scratch, naming players and giving them statistics that would be followed in
- gameplay. In addition, Baseball Simulator 1.000 allowed you to run a full
- season within a six-team league of your choice, from 5 to 165 games in length,
- and kept track of detailed player and team statistics through battery backup.
- When the ball is hit, it is automatically sent into a fixed camera posisition
- "Ultra Plays." These plays included pitches that would snake left and right as they
- went to the plate, hits that would explode whenever they were caught, and
- fielders who could leap thirty feet in the air to rob batters of home runs,
- among others.
- if both teams are set to AUTO, you will be given the
- option to either WATCH the game, or SKIP it and have the computer simulate it.
- However, computer simulations still take 6-10 minutes, while watching a game
- takes about 25-30 minutes, so either way you’d better go make yourself a
- sandwich or something. (And if you choose to skip the game, you’re forced to
- look at the Sports News screen, and anchor, the whole time, while the box score
- sloooooooowly gets posted.) Also, if both teams are set to AUTO, and twenty
- seconds goes by on the pre-game screen without anything happening, the computer
- will automatically start the game in WATCH mode.
- The Stats
- It's really hard to determine how good a pitcher is, because all you get to see is his ERA, even when he comes in the game.
- Rich Statistics with silly powers and locations
- Playing NES Baseball Games
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 (1991, Super NES), also known as Super Ultra Baseball
- Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban (1992, SNES), NPB licensed.
- Super Ultra Baseball 2 (1994, SNES)
- Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 2 (1994, SNES), NPB licensed.
- Ultra Baseball Jitsumeiban 3 (1995, SNES), NPB licensed.
- EGL
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