The original RBI baseball, release in North America on the NES in 1988, was the first MLB-licensed video game ever; the last game in the series, RBI '95, was released on Sega 32X in 1996. Because ...

One of the oldest baseball franchises out there, this year's RBI Baseball still maintains the arcade simplicity of its NES days.

Of course, there was also " RBI Baseball," which was notable in that it used actual baseball player names thanks to its then-exclusive license with the MLB Players Association.

Remember the RBI Baseball/1986 World Series mash-up video from last week? Yahoo! Sports has a great story on the creator, Conor Lastowka, who was just five years old in 1986 when the game happened ...

RBI Baseball debuted in the late 1980s on the NES. It was known for having the MLB licence and thus featuring the real names of baseball stars unlike its rivals.

1 Star: RBI Baseball 2 and 3 These games are the antithesis of the original. For one, they had all the teams and complete rosters.

But sure enough, this is what's come to pass. No baseball stat is more divisive these days than the RBI. Baseball fans talking about RBI are like regular people talking about politics, religion or ...

The original RBI Baseball, developed by Namco and released on NES in 1986 in Japan and 1988 in North America, was the first officially licensed MLB game on the market.

Although RBI Baseball is not available through a major manufacturer because of convoluted legal issues — you can usually find used copies for less than $10 in game stores and online — it’s ...

Subsequent iterations of the series were not going to match the original’s popularity, but it struck around until 1995, with Super RBI Baseball on the Super NES and RBI Baseball 96 on the Sega 32X.

If baseball’s not your thing, there are Tecmo Super Bowl mods with rosters from past seasons like 1968, 1984, 1992 and 2011. There’s a 2014 version of Nintendo World Cup.

Dubbed RBI Baseball 14, the game will be available on consoles and mobile devices this spring. RBI Baseball, the classic Namco baseball game for the NES, was a staple in the early '90s.