Baseball

Moby ID: 127564

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Released

June 1977 on Mainframe

Credits

1 person

Releases by Date (by platform)

1977 (Mainframe)
1979 (Commodore PET/CBM)

Publishers

People's Computer Company

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Sports
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Real-time
Gameplay: Arcade
Interface: Direct control
Sport: Baseball

Mainframe Specs

Business Model: Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard, Teletype/Teleprinter
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

See Also

Baseball (1967 on Mainframe)
Baseball (1971 on Mainframe)
Baseball (1972 on Odyssey)
Baseball (1973 on Mainframe)
Baseball (1974 on Terminal)
Baseball (1974 on Arcade)
Baseball (1976 on Dedicated console)
Baseball (1976 on TI Programmable Calculator)
Baseball (1977 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Baseball (1978 on APF MP1000/Imagination Machine)
Baseball (1978 on TRS-80)
Baseball (1978 on Dedicated handheld)
Baseball (1978 on Dedicated handheld)
Baseball (1979 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Baseball (1979 on Apple II)
Baseball (1979 on Apple II)
Baseball (1979 on COSMAC)
Baseball (1980 on Microvision)
Baseball (1982 on TRS-80)
Baseball (1982 on Arcadia 2001)
Baseball (1983 on Atari 8-bit)
Baseball (1983 on DOS)
Baseball (1983 on NES, 1984 on Arcade, 1989 on Game Boy...)
Baseball (2024 on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch)

Description

Baseball is a real-time text based baseball game. The player is presented with pitches and must respond within a second to hit the ball or let it go. The pitches are generated with two random numbers between 0 and 1. The player is shown one of them and must decide to act. If the sum of both numbers exceeds 1 there's a chance of reaching first base. If it exceeds 1.5 there's a chance of gaining extra bases. The game stores scores on a local file so they can be compared with other players.

Credits (Mainframe version)

Written by

Garth Dollahite

Analytics

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Identifiers +

MobyGames ID: 127564

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Game added by vedder.

Game added May 30, 2019. Last modified February 22, 2023.