| APBA Major League Players Baseball | |
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| Developer(s) | Random House |
| Publisher(s) | Random House |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, MS-DOS |
| Release | July 1985 [1] |
| Genre(s) | Sports, simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
APBA Major League Players Baseball is a sports video game published in 1985 by Random House for Apple II and IBM PC compatibles.
APBA Major League Players Baseball is a game in which all text sports game offers the possibility to play a draft league. [2] Players can create a baseball roster using the names and batting averages of real-life baseball players. Each baseball player and team comes with different offensive and defensive measurements which affect their performance. [3]
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World , and stated that "I like APBA enormously. The action feels like baseball." [2]
Duane E. Widner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World , and stated that "Unfortunately, the game does not take advantage of all available RAM and accesses the disk drive on every play. That could be a concern over the course of an entire major league season because APBA is fairly slow compared to the others (meaning it takes as long as 30 minutes to complete a game)." [4]
Win Rogers reviewed version 1.5 of the game for Computer Gaming World , and stated that "for what it delivers today, at the price asked, APBA Baseball would not be my first choice for a baseball simulation." [5]
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