Major League Baseball

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Item Condition

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Item Description

When Mattel wanted to show America what the Intellivision could do, it reached for baseball. George Plimpton's famous television spots set this game beside the competition's version and let the difference make the argument, and anyone who saw a full diamond of fielders, real base running and genuine strategy on screen understood that home video games were growing up.

Designed and programmed by David Rolfe, Major League Baseball is a head-to-head game for two players, and it asks a lot of both. The pitcher picks a delivery with the control disc, choosing among pitches from fastballs to curves, while the batter decides when to swing or lay down a bunt. On defense you are in charge of every fielder, using the keypad to choose who makes the play and which base to throw to, and that is where the game lives: double plays, rundowns, pickoffs, stolen bases and the occasional triple play all happen because someone made the right call in a split second. Tie games go to extra innings, and difficulty settings control the pace and whether steals are allowed.

It became the best-selling game in Intellivision history, reportedly passing a million copies, and it is remembered as the definitive Intellivision sports title. Mattel later updated it as World Championship Baseball, and the game has resurfaced in classic collections ever since, but this is where the console's sports reputation began.

Played with a friend on original hardware, it still has a wonderful tug-of-war feel, part reflex test and part chess match, with every grounder up the middle turning into an argument about who should have covered second.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1980
Publisher
Mattel Electronics
Developer
APh Technological Consulting
Genre
Sports
Players
Multiplayer
About the game

Major League Baseball is an action baseball game for two players. The game follows most professional baseball rules and allows you to control all of the players on the team. You can throw a variety of pitches (from curve balls to fast balls), steal bases, tag players out, bunt, try for a home run, and in the event of a tie the game goes into extra innings! Several difficulty levels are available which control the game speed and whether or not stealing bases is allowed.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
Watch gameplayMajor League Baseball on Intellivision
Video: Major League Baseball

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