Played (with a friend) as part of Atari 50.
As much as something as pointless as the card game War can kinda be marginally entertaining with a friend, RealSports Baseball can be as well. But even after reading the manual it's nigh impossible to actually play it. Most sports games are going to be way too complicated for the 2600 to be able to handle them without deep abstraction and this is no exception. The batting is weird and inconsistent, alternate pitching modes either don't appear to do anything or don't work at all, on multiple occasions the baserunning glitched out and allowed someone to run in the middle of a pitch, just kind of a total mess. The only reason my score isn't lower is because there is a novelty in fumbling around with it and not immediately seeing everything laid bare, as is the case with something like Outlaw. No more than 10 minutes or so, but that's more than plenty of other 2600 games!
As much as something as pointless as the card game War can kinda be marginally entertaining with a friend, RealSports Baseball can be as well. But even after reading the manual it's nigh impossible to actually play it. Most sports games are going to be way too complicated for the 2600 to be able to handle them without deep abstraction and this is no exception. The batting is weird and inconsistent, alternate pitching modes either don't appear to do anything or don't work at all, on multiple occasions the baserunning glitched out and allowed someone to run in the middle of a pitch, just kind of a total mess. The only reason my score isn't lower is because there is a novelty in fumbling around with it and not immediately seeing everything laid bare, as is the case with something like Outlaw. No more than 10 minutes or so, but that's more than plenty of other 2600 games!