Earl Weaver Baseball

hawkypro 2020-05-24
(9/10)
Endless drafts, trades and leagues with 12 guys managing their teams. This is the sim made of Baseball Mystique! Our lives devoted to Saturdays at my uncles house playing this sim and making back door trades for players we needed on our teams, because of injuries. The player database was huge, the management functions endless. Loved the ask Earl function too. Its not about the graphics on this game, its about the depth of the sim. Thank you Eddie Dombrower for a great moment in my life with this game.
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TVSportsGuitarHero 2014-04-27
(9/10)
Haven't played this game in forever but loved the stadium editor and my friends and I would make the wackiest stadium dimensions we could and laugh how they'd come out looking.
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ennio redux 2013-01-20
When I heard Earl Weaver died, this was the first thing that came to mind... Made me sad that so much time has gone by. Such great memories playing this with my college roommates.
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radioman970 2008-04-02
(9/10)
First sports title I bought for my Amiga. And, yeah, the graphics were a little below what I wanted, it was still one hell of a great baseball game going above what I'd been weened on before on the C64, Hardball (and I guess the handhelds of the early 80s). There was so much to do and it really did feel like a real baseball game going on instead of the lame arcade attempts that followed on every platform. Shoot, looking at those screen shots has me feeling nostalgic. I'll fire this one up on the emulator soon (since I believe my original copy died from so much usage). The players actually looked pretty good. Although the sprite for the bat never looked right, did it?

9/10 (took off 1/10 since the graphics were so lacking, but everything else was on the money)
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PantheraLeo 2008-02-10
(10/10)
Don't let it's weird and simplistic graphics scare you. This is a great baseball game for many reasons. This game is still one of the greatest baseball simulators out there and the game is a lot of fun too if you can get past the not so great for an Amiga game type graphics. You can create almost anything and everything with this game. Players, baseball parks, stats for said players, schedules and tweek so many things. Its a baseball nerds dream actually. I couldn't tell you how cool it was to hear the computer saying my actual name as the character I created with my name coming to bat. A computerized voice was used for every player and even to tell us what the other team was doing like when the computer put someone in their bullpen it would say "Earl's got (insert name here) Throwing in the pen.." It was just ahead of it's time with things like this.

And the game is just downright fun. You can play in your own created ballparks or actual ballparks that were in existance in the late 80s and even had some classic parks no longer around. Also it had all stars not just from modern times but from every era of baseball. And with expansion disks and commisioner disks you had so many players and options this game just kept getter better and better.

Its very dated now by todays games on the console systems of today. But when it was out, it was ahead of its time and still does things modern games don't. Check it out if you are a baseball fan. This is a 10/10 game.
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ricky500 2007-12-05
The bad graphics always scared me away from this game...
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ennio 2007-07-05
(9/10)
At the time, this game was an absolute revelation. The comprehensive stats, in-game strategy, and choice of ballparks made this a true sports game landmark. I never had much luck winning games because it was really hard, but I always came back for more. In college, my room-mates and I played this constantly along with Omni-Play Basketball. We'd quote the computer voice in the company of non-gamers who had no idea what we were talking about: "Earl's got... Clemens... Throwing in the pen..."
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skerry 2005-11-07
(9/10)
I guess I should write a comment on this game. For purists of the game this is a must have. Growing up as a baseball fanatic this game was the best simulation of the game and still rates high cause it breaks down the game in statistics like no other game. Even MVP 2005 still does not have the stats you can pull for this game and relate it to numbers. A great effort by Eddie Dowbower and Electronics Arts.
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