A Saturday Night Baseball Chinwag with Authors Derek Bain and John Racanelli

Here’s a 3+ hour discussion on the Beatles Eternally YouTube channel about our book, “Hardball Retro’s Compendium of Baseball Video Games and Electronic Handhelds”. We talked about a wide variety of baseball sims, console, handheld, arcade and card & dice baseball games along with the designers, programmers, managers and broadcasters involved with the development of … Read more

Tony La Russa Baseball II – tutorial – create/edit teams

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I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in Tony La Russa Baseball II. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Tony La Russa Baseball II was developed by Stormfront Studios and published in 1993 by Strategic Simulations Incorporated for the IBM PC personal computer, the second of four titles in … Read more

Tony La Russa’s Ultimate Baseball – tutorial – create/edit teams

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I created a quick tutorial to discuss how to create and edit teams in Tony La Russa’s Ultimate Baseball. Here’s a rundown of the requirements: Tony La Russa’s Ultimate Baseball was developed by Beyond Software and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1991 for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC personal computers. I’m utilizing the … Read more

Retro Computer Baseball Game Review – Tony La Russa Baseball II

Tony La Russa Baseball II front cover

This is the fourteenth entry in a series focusing on computer baseball simulations to supplement the chapter “Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser” from my Hardball Retroactive book along with the corresponding post at Baseball Analytics. The series focuses on baseball simulations – games in which the primary emphasis is on managerial strategy … Read more

Retro Computer Baseball Game Review – Tony LaRussa’s Ultimate Baseball

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This is the eleventh entry in a series focusing on computer baseball simulations to supplement the chapter “Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser” from my Hardball Retroactive book along with the corresponding post at Baseball Analytics. The series focuses on baseball simulations – games in which the primary emphasis is on managerial strategy … Read more

Retro Computer Baseball Game Review – SSI Computer Baseball

This is the first entry in a series focusing on computer baseball simulations to supplement the chapter “Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser” from my Hardball Retroactive book along with the corresponding post at Baseball Analytics. The series will focus on baseball simulations – games in which the primary emphasis is on managerial … Read more