▶/ABOUT — EST. 1984 · REVIVED 2025
From floppy disks to a cross-era cloud engine.
In 1984, MicroLeague Baseball became the first MLB-licensed computer game. Forty years later we're back — same authentic simulation engine, now pointed at every era, every sport, and the GOAT debate that started it all.
- VAULT YEARS
- 1991 → 2024
- REVIVAL
- 2025 · Cloud + AI rebuild
- ENGINE
- ML-Sim v3.2 · cross-era
- SPORTS LIVE
- MLB · NFL · NBA
- COMMUNITY
- 12,481 active simmers
▶THE STORY
Hours debating a box score — printed on dot matrix.
PULL QUOTE
“What if the ‘27 Yankees met the ‘98 Yankees?” The simulation gave us a number. The forum argument never ended.
— A MICROLEAGUE FORUM POST · 1989 · STILL ARGUED
The original MicroLeague Baseball wasn't a video game in the modern sense. It was a simulator with a license — real rosters, real stats, real mathematics — wrapped in 64K of memory and shipped on a 5.25-inch floppy. You picked your lineup, you picked your park, you let it play. The printer chattered out a box score. Then you argued for an hour.
That ritual — the simulation, the box score, the argument — is what we're rebuilding. Not the pixels. The behavior. We've spent two years re-pointing the engine at every era of every major sport, validating it against millions of real games, and wiring it to a community that knows the difference between a bunt single and a productive out.
You can be a returning fan from the floppy era, or a kid who has never seen a dot-matrix printer. The contract is the same: pick the matchup that only existed in your head, and let the engine settle it.
42 yrs
since the first MLB-licensed PC game
3
sports live · 4 more in research
1,200+
historical teams modeled
12.4K
active simmers as of May
▶GAMING PIONEER · PRIOR ART
Receipts from the first era.
The credentials that got us through the door in 1984. We carry them forward as obligation, not nostalgia.
FIG. 01
MLB Licensed
First MLB-licensed video game in history. Real names, real numbers — at a time when nobody else could ship them.
FIG. 02
MLBPA · NFLPA · NBAPA
Player-association deals across baseball, football, and basketball. The full shelf, unusual then.
FIG. 03
Sports Illustrated JV
Joint venture with SI on a fantasy property — the first attempt at a print + sim crossover.
FIG. 04
USA Today JV
Powered USA Today's first fantasy sports game. Newspaper distribution, simulation engine, dot-matrix output.
FIG. 05
U. of Delaware
First sim game with live video, in collaboration with the University of Delaware's research lab.
FIG. 06
Annual Stat Releases
Yearly stat-pack updates for the original engine — the prototype of every sports-game season patch since.
▶OUR JOURNEY
Forty-two years. Four chapters.
1984
THE BEGINNING
💾COMMODORE 64 · FLOPPY
MicroLeague Baseball ships on Commodore 64.
First MLB-licensed video game in history. Real rosters. Real math. A printer pumping out box scores nobody had ever seen before. The community didn't exist yet — we built it post-launch in the magazine letter columns.
1987–91
GOLDEN YEARS
⛹🏻♀️NFL · NBA · FANTASY
Multi-sport expansion. Annual stat releases. Millions of simulations.
Football. Basketball. Fantasy crossovers with Sports Illustrated and USA Today. The first sim game with live video, in collaboration with University of Delaware. Yearly stat updates became the de-facto template for every sports game season patch since.
1991– 2024
THE VAULT
📦PRESERVATION MODE
Dormant on shelves. Alive in forums.
MicroLeague went dark commercially, but the community never did. Discord servers, sub-reddits, archive sites, ROMs traded between collectors. We watched the engine outlive its retail life by three decades.
2025
THE REVIVAL
🌐LIVECLOUD · AI · $MLC
Modern rebuild. Cloud engine. Cross-era as the headline feature.
Same simulation pedigree, now powered by cloud compute, AI-generated content, and a vibrant online community. Cross-era matchups become the front door. $MLC coin aligns the community with what we ship next.
Pick the matchup that only existed in your head.
Same engine that started the conversation in 1984 — now ready for yours.