Budget Baseball

Budget Baseball is a video game in the strategy genre developed by Streetsong Software and published by Streetsong Software originally released in 1990. It is currently playable on DOS.

Take on historic and legendary baseball teams from 1901 to 1989 with accurate team members and statistics in Budget Baseball. This top-down sports simulation is more like a strategy game with a dash of RPG for chance rolls.

After the initial selection of team members, simple ASCII graphics are used to represent where they are on the field. Typical placement of batters and pitchers is also done before the game begins. Instead of controlling what your player does with graphical instructions, you select from a menu how your batter will react to pitches. You can bunker, attempt a single and even attempt a home run. While this is happening you can try to force your runners to steal if they can and all successful plays and failures are determined by a chance roll by the AI. Once your turn at bat is over, it's your turn to play again as the opposing team's batter or pass the controls to a friend via the shared keyboard and let them do it.

The shareware version of the game comes with nine preloaded teams, including the 1989 San Francisco Giants, 1988 Oakland A's, 1975 Cincinnati Reds, 1954 Cleveland Indians and the infamous 1927 New York Yankees. Additional teams of the registered players' choice are available for purchase upon registration.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.