Nolan Ryan's Baseball

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Game + box: the cartridge and its box; the manual is not included. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

In 1991 Nolan Ryan threw the seventh no-hitter of his career at age 44, the same year this cartridge put his name on a Super Nintendo baseball game, and the Ryan Express is the star in every sense. The game carries no Major League Baseball or players' association license, which makes Ryan the only real ballplayer on the field. Every other name on every roster is invented, and that gives the whole thing a curious, slightly surreal charm: one living legend on the mound surrounded by a fictional league.

Developed by Affect, it began life in Japan as Super Stadium and was built around Ryan's name for North America, arriving early in the console's life. That puts it in the first wave of SNES sports cartridges, when developers were just discovering what the new hardware could do with a ballpark, and it was reviewed in the January 1992 issue of Nintendo Power.

Its appeal today is that pairing of an early-'90s sports game and a baseball legend. Ryan retired in 1993 as the all-time strikeout king with 5,714, a record that still stands, and this is a playable artifact from the twilight of that career, when he was still pitching and still headlining. As a piece of the SNES's early sports shelf, it is a fun oddity worth owning for the name on the label alone.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1991
Publisher
Affect
Genre
Sports
Players
Single player
About the game

Nolan Ryan's Baseball is a baseball video game based on the retired baseball player Nolan Ryan. The game has no licensing from Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association; meaning that Nolan Ryan is the only non-fictional ballplayer in the entire game. All the other players have names that appear to be given names while Nolan Ryan uses his surname. This game was reviewed on the January 1992 (32nd) issue of Nintendo Power.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.

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