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Title: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: RPO R6V on August 26, 2012, 06:47:49 pm: Hi everyone - I would appreciate your advice. I figured my MAME cabinet should feature some games that are easy for "non-gamers" (and for my early-grade-school kids) to play. I'd like to include games based on the most popular sports, but I'm having trouble finding a baseball game that doesn't use three or four buttons per player in addition to using a joystick. Any thoughts?

Any advice for other sports games would be appreciated too. For basketball I've settled for now on Atari's "Basketball". Very rudimentary and black-and-white but at least it only uses one button, not 4 or 5. (My cab has a Slikstik with plenty of buttons; that's not the issue.) For a version of football I'm currently running Cyberball 2072. For golf it's Golden Tee Classic. For hockey I picked Hat Trick (this one and Atari Basketball should show I'm not hung up on how new the games are or how great the graphics look!). Thanks for any advice.
Title: Re: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: yotsuya on August 26, 2012, 07:09:39 pm: SNK has a great baseball game called Baseball Stars. It's slightly cartoony and fun- kids like it, but adults do too. I does use a number of buttons, but that's if you want to get really complicated. I used to play Bottom of the Ninth as well.
Title: Re: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: DarthMarino on August 27, 2012, 07:35:39 am: I'll second the Baseball Stars Professional and Baseball Stars 2. If you want a simple but fun volleyball game, I suggest U.S. Championship V'Ball. This was the arcade version of Super Spike V'Ball on NES. 2 buttons (jump and hit) and very easy to get the hang of.
Title: Re: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: mcseforsale on August 27, 2012, 10:16:40 am: Track and Field. 3 buttons is all you need and the kids love beating the crap out of the buttons to run...

AJ
Title: Re: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: nipsmg on August 27, 2012, 12:52:21 pm: Baseball Stars. Definitely.
(Neo Geo)

I agree with track and field 2. It's just button mashing, and a ton of fun.
Title: Re: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 28, 2012, 05:12:48 am: Correction: Three buttons and a pencil is all you need. >:D
Title: Re: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)
Post by: DarthMarino on August 30, 2012, 12:10:53 pm: Not sure how I didn't think of this earlier, but High Impact Football and Super High Impact only use one button and are loads of fun.