Remember Base Wars? What a great game.
Here’s how the pitch meeting must have gone:
Guy 1: How about we make a baseball game.
Guy 2: It’s been done.
Guy 1: A baseball game … with robots?
Guy 2: I’m listening.
Guy 1: Yeah, a baseball game with robots, and there won’t be any forceouts — they’ll have to fight each other at each base!
Guy 2: We should totally give them machine guns, too.
Guy 1: And if one robot loses too many fights, it will blow up.
Guy 2: Make it happen.
Yeah we spent some time managing our robot baseball teams. When you won, you got money that you could use to repair your players that were damaged during the game, buy them better weapons, or buy them other tools that would improve their play. I remember you could buy players “shoulders” and it would make them hit more home runs. Other items increased their speed or made them throw harder. Others items, we had no idea what they did. Probably said in the rule book.
Tanks were my robots of choice. Others preferred the Cyborgs (who were nearly unbeatable if you had the turbo controller), the Flybots, or the Motorcycles. The Motorcycles were OK fighters but they were a liability on defense, because they had a hard time steering straight to the ball and instead would circle around it for a long time while the baserunners advanced.
One strategy was to pitch low to induce a lot of grounders, and therefore a lot of plays at first. Provided you were a good fighter, you could turn your first baseman into a killing machine.
I can’t remember if we ever finished a season, but it was still good times. Running the teams provided lessons in management on where to invest your winnings for the greatest return. It was Moneyball for kids.
Oh baby I just found out you can play Base Wars online.
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online basewars? Between that and Dr Mario you might never get another thing done!