Hardball (SS).png (12956 bytes)

Hardball (GS).png (14828 bytes)
Hardball 3 (SS).png (8635 bytes) Hardball 3 (GS).png (12401 bytes)
Hardball 94 (SS).png (8912 bytes) Hardball 94 (GS).png (12451 bytes)
Hardball 95 (SS).png (11565 bytes) Hardball 95 (GS).png (10672 bytes)
Name: Hardball series (4 titles)
Hardball
Hardball 3
Hardball 94
Hardball 95
Author/Vendor: Accolade/Ballistix
Released: various
Type: Sports (baseball)
Language: English
Premise: The one and only - the first baseball sim grudgingly acknowledged by both sports fans and gamers alike as worth the trouble of learning. One of the first baseball games to offer first-person on-the-diamond views, which only added to its popularity. Hardball set the standard by which all subsequent baseball games were measured.
Impressions: Still surprisingly enjoyable after all these years, although time and technology have passed them by.
Variations: Hardball (1991)
Hardball 2 does not appear to have been released for the G/MD
Hardball 3 (1993)
Hardball 94 (1994, noticeably improved graphics)
Hardball 95 (1995, little different from its predecessor except for the team stats)
Recommended Emu: Genecyst X (except for Hardball 3)
NOTE: Hardball 3 will not work in any emulator to date. It locks up in an endless loop during its first-time initialization sequence.