YAB Baseball
by Tom Fresen
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| Graphics | 6 | ||||||||||
| Sound | 5 | ||||||||||
| Story | N/A | ||||||||||
| Fun | 6 | ||||||||||
| Replay | 6 | ||||||||||
There is no ignoring the fact that very few sports games for the PC are any good. That said, YAB is not bad as far as PC sports games go -- especially PC sports games from the early 90s.
YAB is a very basic and moderately entertaining baseball game. Pitching and fielding are controlled by the mouse while batting and baserunning are done with the keyboard, so it's pretty to easy to play a two-player game. I suppose the simulation is fairly accurate in that I suck at both real and YAB baseball. The game comes with good documentation, including a text file written in German apparently explaining the rules of baseball.
The single most notable aspect of YAB, however, is that it belongs in the elite club of games where the audio is better without a sound card. In YAB, the Adlib sound effects are cheesy and annoying, but the PC beeper features squawky, lo-fi digitized speech: "Welcome to YAB!"
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Posted by Darius 2000-08-28 12:19:57
YAB was the only sports game that I was any good at. I was also impressed by the black-and-white photographs of each individual player.The only other sports game I could play well was a baseball game I used to have on my Apple IIe. It was called something like "Bases Loaded" or something along those lines. Even though the game had nice graphics (the same camera angle as YAB), it mostly involved looking up numbers on immensely large tables and pressing the appropriate keys in the appropriate order and watching your men play ball. Needless to say, I was very good at looking up numbers.
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