Watch Live MLB Baseball Games in 8-Bit Style with Ribbie
Major League Baseball fans and retro enthusiasts are sure to get a kick out of this one; you can watch live MLB games rendered pitch by pitch and play-by-play in 8-bit style, right in your browser, with a cool webapp called Ribbie.
With Ribbie, you’re able to watch of any live baseball game rendered in retro pixel art style, keeping track of the score, inning, bases, count, outs, pitches, players, movements, and the field, that moves along with the real live game. It’s a lot like watching someone play an old SNES Baseball game, except it’s all based on real live MLB games.
The developer of Ribbie describes how it works as follows: “It reads the live game data MLB publishes and redraws it as pixel art in real time. It’s not a video stream or a rebroadcast, it’s the box score brought to life, pitch by pitch.”
If you’re a baseball fan and that sounds good to you, open up your web browser, select a game, and check it out:
You don’t need anything except a web browser, meaning you can watch games on any device with a browser, and the service is completely free.
You can even toggle on sound, which includes some very retro midi-style music and sound effects to go along with the cool 8-bit graphics (more like 16-bit SNES or Sega Genesis).
Watch zoomed in, or in a virtual living room, or in a mini-player that you can tuck into the corner of your screen as you work on other stuff.
Projects like this are really neat, and while Ribbie focuses on Baseball I’m hoping the developer (or someone else) is inspired to make something similar for other sports too, including basketball, football, and particular NCAA football. While you can always get real-time scores with Apple Sports app, the Ribbie webapp is much cooler, don’t you think? Anyway, check this out if you’re into baseball or just retro tech stuff, and enjoy!
