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Author Topic: Advice wanted - simple MAME baseball game (and any other sports games too)  (Read 1358 times)

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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.

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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.
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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.

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Track and Field.  3 buttons is all you need and the kids love beating the crap out of the buttons to run...

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Baseball Stars.  Definitely.
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I agree with track and field 2.  It's just button mashing, and a ton of fun.

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Correction:  Three buttons and a pencil is all you need.   >:D

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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.