Jeremy Parish
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NES Works #83: Bases Loaded & Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
🕑 Added 2021-09-29 13:00:01 +0000 UTCTwo sports games this week, which I suppose should be anathema for me, a person who does not like sports games. But I had a thoroughly good time putting together this episode (aside from actually capturing Bases Loaded footage), because there's a lot to be said about these particular releases. As a result, this is an information-dense episode, and I've made a conscious effort to rely on specific outside sources for info here rather than work off my usual combination of observation, speculation, and synthesis of info accumulated on NES history over the years from reading and talking obsessively about the subject. Research! Sports! Video games!
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Sven Mascarenhas
Football also hit a few ratings peaks in the mid-80s - Miami beating the 85 Bears on MNF is still the highest-rated regular-season NFL game, for instance, and I think that there's a Miami / Notre Dame game from a couple years later that has the regular-season viewership record for college football (not Catholics v Convicts, the sequel in prime time where Miami won).
Beefington von Barnstorm
I get real "cardassian trying to kill me with a baseball" vibes from that box art which I think was the plot of an episode of deep space nine
