RBI Baseball swings for Xbox 360 fences

ESRB rates a new slugger for Microsoft's console from upstart developer Six Degrees Games.

The 2008 baseball season is already in full swing, but a number of games based on the American pastime are still on deck. The 2009 editions of Backyard Baseball are set for next month, Mario Super Sluggers for the Wii should arrive later this year, and Konami and Take-Two's joint effort MLB Power Pros 2008 is set to arrive on multiple platforms this summer.

Apparently, one more slugger will be added to the lineup, as the Entertainment Software Rating Board has issued an E for Everyone to RBI Baseball for the Xbox 360. The game is being published by startup Six Degrees Games, a Marina Del Ray, California-based outfit focused on "vibrant, mass-market gaming applications for the Internet," suggesting that RBI would be digitally distributed as an Xbox Live Arcade game rather than a retail product.

It's unclear if Six Degrees' RBI title is related to Atari and Tengen's R.B.I. Baseball franchise, which spawned in the arcade and moved to consoles in the late '80s through the mid-'90s. Six Degrees had not returned GameSpot's inquiry as of press time.

25 Comments

  • tony382

    Posted Apr 26, 2009 2:11 am PT

    This was over a year ago and we still don't have news yet on a release date. I mean come on, it RBI Baseball, I could have developed it faster. WTF already.

  • stncldrwg

    Posted May 27, 2008 6:40 pm PT

    I hope it is the original, as that was my all time favorite sports game.

  • unrealgogetr

    Posted May 27, 2008 12:39 pm PT

    MVP!!! MVP!!!

  • BigSmitts07

    Posted May 26, 2008 10:15 am PT

    hmm..anything can be better then mlb 2k8...that game was the worst baseball game ive ever played..

  • Ranteal

    Posted May 25, 2008 10:43 pm PT

    Bring back Bases Loaded dammit. I wanna play team Hawaii again, with there pink uniforms.

  • erik_wolff

    Posted May 25, 2008 9:43 pm PT

    Bring back Baseball Simulator 1.000 dammit. That game ruled.

  • DrKill09

    Posted May 25, 2008 8:22 am PT

    RBI Baseball? Loved those NES games.

  • raahsnavj

    Posted May 25, 2008 7:54 am PT

    I will play the one that doesn't make me 'watch' it like it was on TV. Baseball is really really really boring to watch so I can't figure out why anyone wants to make me feel like I'm watching it.

    And kudos points to the developer that lets me play variable length seasons instead of the 165 game death march...

  • cooldude03

    Posted May 24, 2008 1:08 pm PT

    Baseball over Xbox Live Arcade sounds like a great idea. I'll check it out.

  • ocdog45

    Posted May 23, 2008 9:31 pm PT

    nothing is better then ken griffeys basbeabll.

  • AvIdGaMeR444

    Posted May 23, 2008 8:28 pm PT

    I think this game should be AO.

  • Thatsmypunk

    Posted May 23, 2008 7:40 pm PT

    RBI Baseball is great, but I want to see a new version of The Bigs, too.

  • INMATEofARKHAM

    Posted May 23, 2008 7:21 pm PT

    Cool though I would have been happier if it had been SNK's Baseball Stars...

  • naughtynuggetz

    Posted May 23, 2008 4:42 pm PT

    Too bad it was Ryne Sandberg and not Ryan.. C'mon, Rhino was the man, man.

  • darobinson67

    Posted May 23, 2008 4:27 pm PT

    i freakin used to spend hours playing rbi baseball back in the day

  • Poppa_pain

    Posted May 23, 2008 4:10 pm PT

    RBI is cool but Ryan Sandberg plays Bases Loaded 3.

  • angelGP32

    Posted May 23, 2008 2:12 pm PT

    RBI was an arcade game? It's not listed on KLOV.

    I preferred Bases Loaded to RBI in the NES era.

  • dru26

    Posted May 23, 2008 2:10 pm PT

    There was a time RBI baseball was the king.

  • AZisBack

    Posted May 23, 2008 1:52 pm PT

    RBI was fun back in the day but not so much anymore. I put the original in about a month ago and I got bored pretty quick.

  • kos1085

    Posted May 23, 2008 1:40 pm PT

    Baseball games bore me after about two hours.

  • Warlypwnage

    Posted May 23, 2008 1:36 pm PT

    RBI baseball is the best baseball game eva

  • Sinister904

    Posted May 23, 2008 1:30 pm PT

    would be cool if it is the port

  • AzureWind213

    Posted May 23, 2008 1:30 pm PT

    Who remembers the theme song for the first RPI Baseball, with the crazy black TENGEN cartridge? *hums happily*

    Man that was a fun game... those were definitely the days. Hope this one has something to do with the old school!

  • christf10

    Posted May 23, 2008 1:09 pm PT

    This better be a port of the Tengen version either NES or Arcade. Was hoping it would be on Virtual Console by now.

  • bennyhanna316

    Posted May 23, 2008 12:47 pm PT

    eeeh, its another baseball game. if its an XBLA DL then i may check it out but im not gonna pay full retail for a fake roster baseball game.

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