It's been a long time since I last played an RBI Baseball game. Indeed, it's almost 30 years - I played the first one on NES back in the mid to late 80's and haven't touched the series since then.

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.

My formative video game-playing years really began in earnest in December 1988. Usually, having an end-of-the-year birthday was lame, if only because of the 11-month present drought. But the ...

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 ...

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 .

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.

RBI Baseball is the game that wouldn’t die, an obsolete video (Nintendo) and arcade (Atari) game from the late ’80s and early ’90s that has spawned national tournaments and numerous Web sites.

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.

Most basically: RBI Baseball 14 aspires to replicate the nostalgic feel of playing the classic game, while taking advantage of modern graphics and MLB's hypers-specific player evaluation tools ...

RBI Baseball revived, coming to PS4 and Xbox One. MLB announces the return of the sports franchise after nearly 20 years. By Ben Lee Published: 16 January 2014.

So, here at player rating headquarters, we’re rating the players’ performances based on original NES sports games. ... RBI Baseball. This is the best sports video game ever invented, ...

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.