Software:All-Star Baseball 2005

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All-Star Baseball 2005
Developer(s)Acclaim Studios Austin
Publisher(s)Acclaim Entertainment
SeriesAll-Star Baseball
Platform(s)Xbox, PlayStation 2
ReleaseXbox
  • NA: March 23, 2004
PlayStation 2
  • NA: April 8, 2004
Genre(s)Sports game
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

All-Star Baseball 2005 is a baseball video game developed by Acclaim Studios Austin and published by Acclaim Entertainment for PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2004. It was released exclusively in North America. The game features Derek Jeter on the cover. It is the eighth and last game in the series.

Gameplay

Single-player

The game includes several features that most previous versions did not include, such as old players like Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra and others. Apart from each of the Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, the game also features teams made up with legends of different eras.

Players can play an exhibition game against the computer, or a 162-game season, choosing their favorite team. Users can also create their own players and set their playing talent to one of five levels: rookie, veteran, all-star, legend and hall-of-famer. The rookie level is recommended for beginners: when using the rookie level, hitting the ball becomes automatically easier (with a mechanism that the game calls "timing"). In addition, players can choose whether the fielding during a game will be done entirely by the player, by the computer, or as a combination, both by the player and the computer. The latter is called the "assist" fielding mode.

There are other modes of play. These are called the "Bonus play modes". The bonus play modes consist of a pick-up baseball bame, a Baseball Weekly trivia game, a trivia game, batting practice, and a home run contest. The pick-up game in particular features four different fields where the player can stage games, these being a schoolyard, a sandlot, a city park and a corn field. Major League players chosen by the computer "show up" for the pick-up games; the player has no control over who will show up. Typically, 16 contemporary players and two retired players (ex. Ty Cobb and Satchel Paige) show up for games. The player chooses the field and the number of innings that the pick-up games will be held for.

The trivia game offers an image of a board game. In the trivia game, two players play against each other. The computer picks up cards from a "stack of cards" placed on the board, in a somewhat similar way to the cards and the board used in Monopoly. Players must then correctly answer the question on each card. If the player is wrong, that represents one out. The player gets a "hit" for a correct answer, and the computer determines whether the hit was a single, double, triple or home run. Every time a player gets a "hit" by answering a question correctly, the computer places a chess figure on board, and the figure moves to the corresponding base, depending on what the computer determines. Before this game, players also choose what level of competition they want, and how many "innings" is the trivia game going to be played for.

Barry Bonds does not appear in All Star Baseball 2005, because he is not a member of the Professional Baseball Players Association. Instead of him, the San Francisco Giants have a make-believe player named "Wes Mailman". "Mailman" actually announces himself on one of the billboards at the Philadelphia Phillies home games. The game does feature play by play commentary by Arizona Diamondbacks television broadcaster Thom Brennaman and former major league player Steve Lyons, who sometimes offers long answers to Brennaman's questions during games.

All-Star Baseball 2005 features a variety of things that most previous versions (except 2004) did not include, such as classic players like Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra and others. Apart from each of the MLB teams, the game also features MLB legends of different eras and the 2004 American and National league teams. One particular game characteristic is that it includes the Montreal Expos, who relocated from Montreal to Washington, D.C., and changed their name to the Washington Nationals for the 2005 MLB season.

The game includes all thirty stadiums as of the 2004 season, as well as other fictional and non-fictional ball parks to bring the total to over eighty parks. Some of these parks include: the Polo Grounds used by the then New York Giants (the New York Yankees played their home games there as well from 1913 to 1922); Ebbets Field used by the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957, Houston Astrodome; Hiram Bithorn Stadium used by the Montreal Expos in their final season; retro, current and future versions of Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, Shea Stadium and Dodger Stadium.

Multiplayer

All Star Baseball 2005 supports split screen and was the first in the series to support online multiplayer, including online leaderboards. The game had the ability to download rosters via Xbox Live.[1]

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
PS2Xbox
EGM5.33/10[2]5.33/10[2]
Game Informer7/10[3]7/10[3]
GameProN/AStarStarStarStar[4]
GameSpot7.5/10[5]8/10[6]
GameSpyN/AStarStarStar[7]
GameZoneN/A8.5/10[8]
IGN7.9/10[9]8/10[10]
OPM (US)StarStarHalf star[11]N/A
OXM (US)N/A7.2/10[12]
X-PlayN/AStarStarStar[13]
MaximStarStarStarStar[14]StarStarStarStar[14]
Aggregate score
Metacritic72/100[15]75/100[16]

The Xbox version received "generally favorable reviews", while the PS2 version received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ "All-Star Baseball 2005 Review" (in en-US). https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/all-star-baseball-2005-review/1900-6092380/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ford, Greg; Intihar, Bryan; Mauro, Patrick (May 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005". Electronic Gaming Monthly (Ziff Davis) (178): 90. http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,2053,1563740,00.asp. Retrieved July 11, 2020. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reiner, Andrew (April 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005". Game Informer (GameStop) (132): 92. http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/C16C98AE-F369-4325-B0B7-585C4D062E5C.htm. Retrieved July 11, 2020. 
  4. ↑ Bro Buzz (May 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005 Review for Xbox on GamePro.com". GamePro (IDG Entertainment): 90. http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox/games/reviews/34628.shtml. Retrieved July 11, 2020. 
  5. ↑ Provo, Frank (April 19, 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005 Review (PS2)". CBS Interactive. https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/all-star-baseball-2005-review/1900-6093874/. 
  6. ↑ Provo, Frank (March 26, 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005 Review (Xbox)". CBS Interactive. https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/all-star-baseball-2005-review/1900-6092380/. 
  7. ↑ Leeper, Justin (April 10, 2004). "GameSpy: All-Star Baseball 2005 (Xbox)". IGN Entertainment. http://xbox.gamespy.com/xbox/all-star-baseball-2005/505168p1.html. 
  8. ↑ Bedigian, Louis (April 5, 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005 - XB - Review". https://www.gamezone.com/reviews/all_star_baseball_2005_xb_review/. 
  9. ↑ Robinson, Jon (April 12, 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005 (PS2)". Ziff Davis. https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/04/12/all-star-baseball-2005. 
  10. ↑ Robinson, Jon (March 23, 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005 (Xbox)". Ziff Davis. https://www.ign.com/articles/2004/03/23/all-star-baseball-2005-2. 
  11. ↑ "All-Star Baseball 2005". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine (Ziff Davis) (80): 99. May 2004. 
  12. ↑ "All-Star Baseball". Official Xbox Magazine (Imagine Media): 74. April 2004. 
  13. ↑ Fischer, Russ (April 1, 2004). "'All-Star Baseball 2005' (Xbox) Review". TechTV. http://www.techtv.com/xplay/reviews/story/0,24330,3652523,00.html. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Steinberg, Scott (March 23, 2004). "All-Star Baseball 2005". MaximNet, Inc.. http://www.maximonline.com/entertainment/reviews/review_games_7174.html. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "All-Star Baseball 2005 for PlayStation 2 Reviews". CBS Interactive. https://www.metacritic.com/game/all-star-baseball-2005/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-2. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "All-Star Baseball 2005 for Xbox Reviews". CBS Interactive. https://www.metacritic.com/game/all-star-baseball-2005/critic-reviews/?platform=xbox. 
  • MobyGames is a commercial database website that catalogs information on video games and the people and companies behind them via crowdsourcing. This includes over 300,000 games for hundreds of platforms.[1] Founded in 1999, ownership of the site has changed hands several times. It has been owned by Atari SA since 2022.

Features

Edits and submissions to the site (including screenshots, box art, developer information, game summaries, and more) go through a verification process of fact-checking by volunteer "approvers".[2] This approval process after submission can range from minutes to days or months.[3] The most commonly used sources are the video game's website, packaging, and credit screens. There is a published standard for game information and copy-editing.[4] A ranking system allows users to earn points for contributing accurate information.[5]

Registered users can rate and review games. Users can create private or public "have" and "want" lists, which can generate a list of games available for trade with other registered users. The site contains an integrated forum. Each listed game can have its own sub-forum.

History

Logo used until March 2014

MobyGames was founded on March 1, 1999, by Jim Leonard and Brian Hirt, and joined by David Berk 18 months later, the three of which had been friends since high school.[6][7] Leonard had the idea of sharing information about computer games with a larger audience. The database began with information about games for IBM PC compatibles, relying on the founders' personal collections. Eventually, the site was opened up to allow general users to contribute information.[5] In a 2003 interview, Berk emphasized MobyGames' dedication to taking video games more seriously than broader society and to preserving games for their important cultural influence.[5]

In mid-2010, MobyGames was purchased by GameFly for an undisclosed amount.[8] This was announced to the community post factum , and the site's interface was given an unpopular redesign.[7] A few major contributors left, refusing to do volunteer work for a commercial website.{{Citation needed|date=June 2025} On December 18, 2013, MobyGames was acquired by Jeremiah Freyholtz, owner of Blue Flame Labs (a San Francisco-based game and web development company) and VGBoxArt (a site for fan-made video game box art).[9] Blue Flame Labs reverted MobyGames' interface to its pre-overhaul look and feel,[10] and for the next eight years, the site was run by Freyholtz and Independent Games Festival organizer Simon Carless.[7]

On November 24, 2021, Atari SA announced a potential deal with Blue Flame Labs to purchase MobyGames for $1.5 million.[11] The purchase was completed on 8 March 2022, with Freyholtz remaining as general manager.[12][13][14] Over the next year, the financial boost given by Atari led to a rework of the site being built from scratch with a new backend codebase, as well as updates improving the mobile and desktop user interface.[1] This was accomplished by investing in full-time development of the site instead of its previously part-time development.[15]

In 2024, MobyGames began offering a paid "Pro" membership option for the site to generate additional revenue.[16] Previously, the site had generated income exclusively through banner ads and (from March 2014 onward) a small number of patrons via the Patreon website.[17]

On February 13, 2025, Freyholtz stepped down as the site lead to move onto new projects, leaving operations to Tracy Poff, a veteran coder on the site, and Atari staff.[18]

See also

  • IGDB – game database used by Twitch for its search and discovery functions

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sheehan, Gavin (2023-02-22). "Atari Relaunches The Fully Rebuilt & Optimized MobyGames Website". https://bleedingcool.com/games/atari-relaunches-the-fully-rebuilt-optimized-mobygames-website/. 
  2. ↑ Litchfield, Ted (2021-11-26). "Zombie company Atari to devour MobyGames". https://www.pcgamer.com/zombie-company-atari-to-devour-mobygames/. 
  3. ↑ "MobyGames FAQ: Emails Answered § When will my submission be approved?". Blue Flame Labs. 30 March 2014. http://www.mobygames.com/info/faq7#g1. 
  4. ↑ "The MobyGames Standards and Practices". Blue Flame Labs. 6 January 2016. http://www.mobygames.com/info/standards. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Miller, Stanley A. (2003-04-22). "People's choice awards honor favorite Web sites". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 
  6. ↑ "20 Years of MobyGames" (in en). 2019-02-28. https://trixter.oldskool.org/2019/02/28/20-years-of-mobygames/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Plunkett, Luke (2022-03-10). "Atari Buys MobyGames For $1.5 Million". https://kotaku.com/mobygames-retro-credits-database-imdb-atari-freyholtz-b-1848638521. 
  8. ↑ "Report: MobyGames Acquired By GameFly Media". Gamasutra. 2011-02-07. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/report-mobygames-acquired-by-gamefly-media. 
  9. ↑ Corriea, Alexa Ray (December 31, 2013). "MobyGames purchased from GameFly, improvements planned". http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/31/5261414/mobygames-purchased-from-gamefly-improvements-planned. 
  10. ↑ Wawro, Alex (31 December 2013). "Game dev database MobyGames getting some TLC under new owner". Gamasutra. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-dev-database-mobygames-getting-some-tlc-under-new-owner. 
  11. ↑ "Atari invests in Anstream, may buy MobyGames". November 24, 2021. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-24-atari-invests-in-anstream-may-buy-mobygames. 
  12. ↑ Rousseau, Jeffrey (2022-03-09). "Atari purchases Moby Games". https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-purchases-moby-games. 
  13. ↑ "Atari Completes MobyGames Acquisition, Details Plans for the Site's Continued Support". March 8, 2022. https://www.atari.com/atari-completes-mobygames-acquisition-details-plans-for-the-sites-continued-support/. 
  14. ↑ "Atari has acquired game database MobyGames for $1.5 million" (in en-GB). 2022-03-09. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-has-acquired-game-database-mobygames-for-1-5-million/. 
  15. ↑ Stanton, Rich (2022-03-10). "Atari buys videogame database MobyGames for $1.5 million". https://www.pcgamer.com/atari-buys-videogame-database-mobygames-for-dollar15-million/. 
  16. ↑ Harris, John (2024-03-09). "MobyGames Offering “Pro” Membership". https://setsideb.com/mobygames-offering-pro-membership/. 
  17. ↑ "MobyGames on Patreon". http://www.patreon.com/mobygames. 
  18. ↑ "An update on MobyGames leadership". 2025-02-13. https://www.mobygames.com/forum/3/thread/269628/an-update-on-mobygames-leadership/#post-269628. 
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