Thanks to Martin/Stadium64 for the heads up – but on the back of MicroLeague Football’s manual, there were two more titles listed as being planned for release in 1991.
MicroLeague Basketball and MicroLeague Baseball – The Coach’s Challenge
Neither game would see release, though MicroLeague Baseball would surface with a slightly different name as “MicroLeague Baseball – The Manager’s Challenge” in 1991 for DOS.
It is plausible that code was started for both games on the C64, and probable that work was stopped when it was found the C64 market was drying up.
Could anything of the games be found? Were they also being developed by the same people who did MicroLeague WWF Wrestling?
Thanks to Max Mirini and a post on Reddit, we learn that final wwf expansion disks were advertised with matches were to include The Ultimate Warrior VS. Ravishing Rick Rude, and “The Hit Man” Bret Hart VS. Mr. Perfect, but only a broken version showed up of the first game when a fan sent off for the expansion disk.
According to the poster:
“The Warrior VS. Rude match ran much MUCH more slowly than the volumes before it, and the colors were all washed out. Weird browns, yellows, and reds. It was hard to look at it and difficult to play. It really needed a lot of fine-tuning, which I’m sure that the developers simply just ran out of money and time before they could do so.”
More research needed! But if you know anything more about the game or how some of these disks could be preserved, please get in touch!
Contributions: Max Mirini
Final wwf expansion disks advertised with matches were to include The Ultimate Warrior VS. Ravishing Rick Rude, and “The Hit Man” Bret Hart VS. Mr. Perfect, but only a bodgy version showed up of the first.
See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/18elofg/microleague_wrestling/
That’s a great spot, thank you Max! I’ll update the page quickly with the information.
I have various MicroLeague Baseball images ( a five disk version )
Design: Barry R Morstain
Stats: Paul J Kelly
Programming: John I Graybill, James A Dorsman, Mark Adam Baum and Stephen L Cox
Cheers Darren – anything with “The coache’s challenge” or “The manager’s challenge”? That seems to be the version currently missing at the moment.