Overview
- Number of Players
- 2
- Genre
- Release Date
Wii (Wii Shop)
7th Apr 2008, 500 points
11th Sep 2007, 500 points
Wii U (Wii U eShop)
- 15th May 2013, ¥500
3DS eShop
- 10th Jul 2014, $4.99
Wii U eShop
- 10th Jul 2014, $4.99
- Also Available On
- Controller Support
Reviews
Review Bases Loaded (Wii U eShop / NES)
America’s 8-bit pastime
Is there anything more American than hotdogs and apple pie? Yes. Yes there is. It’s baseball. The answer is baseball. It’s a game that has permeated the American culture and inserted itself firmly into so many of our lives. As such, it comes as no surprise that there are a plethora of video games available based on the...
Review Bases Loaded (3DS eShop / NES)
Can this old timer still make contact?
Back in the mid-to-late 80s, when the NES was the dominant force in video games, cyber sporting wasn’t exactly the complex affair that it is now. With modern controllers having about a dozen buttons and joysticks to manage, it’s common for every one of those to be utilized for numerous functions —...
Review Bases Loaded (Wii Virtual Console / NES)
Not quite a home run.
To herald the start of the new baseball season in the USA, it seems fitting that Bases Loaded should get a Virtual Console release. When this was first released on the NES twenty years ago there wasn’t really much that came close to it. The simple, yet innovative gameplay struck a home run with baseball fans all over the...
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Bases Loaded News
Nintendo Download 10th July (North America)
ONE PIECE Red x2, Rabi Laby returns, horror on Wii U and more
It's that time again, North American gamers, for more treats in the Nintendo Download Update. After the madness of last week's bonanza, we settle back to a smaller number of choices this time around. There's a retail release on both Wii U and 3DS, the continuation of a thoroughly decent...
News US VC Releases - 7th April - Yoshi's Cookie
If you ask us, this is yet another rather uninteresting week for Americans. Yoshi's Cookie for NES is an OK game to waste some time with, but with so much better puzzlers already available on VC, and the SNES version of the game being better (A situation similar to Wario's Woods), we just can't highly recommend it.
Today's other choice might...
About The Game
Pitch, Hit and Run Like the Pros!
Bases Loaded is a baseball game with an arcade feel and plenty of options from which players can choose. Select one of twelve teams, set your lineup from the 30 players available (each with different strengths), and then play a single game or try to win the pennant. During game play, the screen shows two different viewpoints: one from behind home plate as you’re batting, and the other from the pitching mound in a television-style shot (unique for the time) as your team plays in the field. Strong play control and excellent graphics add to the excitement as you decide what pitch to throw (you can even try to provoke the opposing batter into charging the mound!), control all of the positions in the field, or do your best to get a hit. So step to the plate and find out why this is one of the most popular baseball games on the NES. Can you pull through in the clutch?
Comments 17
Oh my, I used to have this game back in the day. Quite nice to see it again all those years ago.
When's it come out? I was a simple game, but great! The sooner the better!
Another baseball game? Oh geez
Hey clinker, at least this one is worth paying for. Unlike some (Baseball Stars 2)
good baseball game for the nes.baseball stars2 is better.
Coming Monday to USA
So is there any reason to care for us who already have Baseball Stars II for the Neo Geo? At all?
Lazer, Stars 2 owns this so bad.
This game still annoys me in that the bat sound effect is taken from an aluminum bat. That would have worked for a little league baseball but not for a pro game. The original Baseball Stars on the NES was 10x better than this. Stars 2 is a lot of fun especially against a friend.
Umm...isn't the camera kind of backwards for most baseball games (behind the pitcher instead of behind the batter)? I've by no means played every (or even most) baseball game ever made, but I've never seen one set up like this before. Ever.
Also, the only NES baseball game I'd like to see on VC is Bad News Baseball from Tecmo. I love the gameplay, digitized voice (relatively non-sucky for the time), and pink bunny umpires (I kid you not!). Make it happen, Tecmo!
I'd take Base Wars over any of those two.
Baseball with robots > baseball without robots any day.
Unless "baseball without robots" meant "baseball with pirates" or "baseball with ninjas", of course
I agree. Base Wars owned this game. For some reason, some of the biggest hits on the old consoles appear to be being overlooked or delayed too.
I might get this game. Used to own it, myself, had some fun with it. But I wonder if I should wait for one of the later Bases Loaded games to make an appearance.
Baseball isn't my thing, living outside of the USA. To those who have played this game, is the fielding in this better than frigging Wii sports baseball?? grumble grumble LOL
This was a really cool baseball game for its time period, but it's beginning to show its age.
Old School!!
Man there's tons of great baseball games that could come to VC. I wonder if Nintendo will release Ken Griffey Jr presents major league baseball. Commodore 64 had Hardball! I had a blast with that game and another sports title from the same developer (4th & Inches) It's a pretty safe bet we'll never see RBI Baseball or Extra Innings though.
So instead let's get Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 and/or Base Wars
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