LGR - Batter Up: The First PC Baseball Game I Played
Added 2016-11-03 19:15:42 +0000 UTCThis is a shareware educational baseball game for MS-DOS from 1992! I have strange yet fond memories of this, but I haven't been able to find a fully-working copy of v2.0, ever. My backup copy has long since gone corrupt, but I was recently able to get it mostly working so I figured I'd show it here!
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I mentioned this in the video, too. It's used by the National Math Bee for their competitions!
LGR
2016-11-13 16:28:32 +0000 UTCI found a web browser game that is like a remake of that. <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/explore/batterup-math/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.pinterest.com/explore/batterup-math/</a>
Teemu Pekkanen
2016-11-13 15:26:17 +0000 UTCThat is some fine detective work
Knifethrower
2016-11-05 20:37:50 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure this is the linkedin profile of the guy that wrote the game: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-s-david-vaillancourt-1446772" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-s-david-vaillancourt-1446772</a>
2016-11-05 03:57:27 +0000 UTCNever understood fractions. The devil's work I say.
Zabe
2016-11-04 15:38:27 +0000 UTCWow. Far after my time. The Texas Instruments Dataman was my thing. Still, this recalls taking mathematics when you had to write out the fraction rather than use a decimal point. Can't say learning and forgetting that skill prepared me for life. The Dataman though, yeah, that helped!
Jason Livingston
2016-11-04 05:51:21 +0000 UTCI just checked the archive I have access to and I can't find this game either. This is definitely gonna be a tricky one to nail down... :o
Kris Asick
2016-11-04 04:51:40 +0000 UTCMaybe you can try to contact the person whose name is on the title screen? Perhaps he can provide you with a copy.
2016-11-03 20:47:28 +0000 UTCMy first baseball game (that I can remember specifically, might be predated by Atari stuff) was "World's Greatest Baseball Game". At the time, it was pretty good! Had a lot of legendary teams, real MLB names. The batter batted one-handed...
Purple Tentacle
2016-11-03 20:05:36 +0000 UTC
