What Baseball Games Are Legendary?

[RaychelSnr]

It just seems fittingly appropriate to look back in time on a day when every sports gamer is ready to dig into the 2009 baseball titles. After all, baseball video games have come a long way over the years.

There are now high-definition games with dynamic lighting, text-sims with incredibly deep franchise modes and even motion-controlled games complete with waggling. Games like MLB 09: The Show on the Playstation 3 have metric stats, formulas,and algorithms to calculate pitch counts, hitter tendencies, pitcher abilities and dynamic situations.

With all the realism found in these beautifully designed sports games, dare we ask the veteran sports gamers if today’s games compare to the level of fun the sports games of the past presented?

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[bronco4434]

For me two games that are legendary are Bad News Baseball and Baseball Stars. Two games that back in the day were classics and played to death by many kids during the summer!!

[rebelfan10]

Earl Weaver baseball!

[Redlegs]

Dusty Diamond Softball, Baseball Stars and the MVP series are my favorites.

[sportyguyfl31]

The High Heat Baseball Series.

Just great stat tracking, and depth. One of my favorite things was to look at the list of retired players. You could see thier year by year career stats, in a baseball card/baseball reference.com type report.

I really liked looking at the career progression of the rookie I brought up from AA at the age of 20, who gradually turned into a multi time 20 game and cy young award winner..on his way to 200 career wins, or the prospect I got in a trade who morphed into a 500 career homer guy..

Those games were total joy for me.

I also loved MVP 2005.

[boomhauertjs]

Re: What Baseball Games are Legendary?

Here's my list:

Baseball Stars (NES)
Baseball Simulator 1.000 (NES)
Tony LaRussa 3 (PC)
High Heat 2002/2003 (PC)
MVP 2005 (Xbox)

[Vermin]

MVP 2005 (Xbox)
RBI Baseball (NES)
Tony LaRussa Baseball (PC)
Baseball Mogul (PC)
Major League Baseball (INTV)

[clarkerots]

Earl Weaver Baseball because I remember losing hours of my life to that game.

MVP 2005 because the Hitters Eye is a feature that I think should exist in all games. Again, hours lost.

Front Page Sports Baseball 99 because it was the birth of "sliders" with a editable file that governed the physics of the game. Overall it was also a solid title, Front Page Sports (who were way ahead of their time from a Franchise standpoint), and a game that-with a few years to improve itself-would've been the one and only baseball game worth playing.

[joshuar9476]

Re: What Baseball Games are Legendary?

Baseball Stars ... I still play it today and even spent last summer making a whole new roster to replace the default CPU teams

High Heat 2003 ... the one thing i love about baseball games is the ability to contract teams, reorganize divisions, and do a fantasy draft. HH2k3 did this perfectly. i also spent last summer making a 1915 roster for this game.

MVP 2005 ... one of the best modded baseball games. if it let you play a contracted schedule i'd still be playing to this day.

[johnprestonevans]

The strike of 94/95 marked a turning point in my love for Major League Baseball. Before that i was a rabbid fan, enjoying the high-riding Toronto Blue Jays and their World Series ways. Since then baseball has been dogged by increasing imparity and steroid scandals. However, every year around this time that little part of me that used to love the sport returns in the hopes that at least in videogame terms, baseball will rule the summer.
I have loved a lot of great classic baseball games. Here are a few:
Baseball Stars for NES. Why? The ability to create my own players, tweak stats and save highlights to show my friends. This was as good as baseball got before the Major League player liceince was established.
Bottom of the Ninth in the arcade. Why? It was the first baseball game to really show some presentation. Seeing my fielders runing in one window and in closeup in another just blew my mind. I love the homerun animation.
Hardball! for the PC. Why? The camera angles were plentiful. Now i could see a game as it appeared on TV - with that behind-the-pitcher view. From then on i would not play a baseball game from the batter view again. Also i loved being able to create my own teams and design their logos and uni's.
Tommy Lasorda Baseball for the Genesis. I bought this game even before I had the system. While the game doesnt hold up well today, back then I was obsessed with the topdown fielding view and "zoom" of the ball. The players started looking more human when batting. This game came out at the hight of my baseball love and i think thats why it is still a favorite.
Tripple Play 98 for the PS1. Polygons. I loved them and i hated them. Finally baseball was in full 3D space, however crude it looked and i spent hours listening to the announces talk generically about the action.
High Heat Baseball 2004. This game did a lot of things right. The cameras were great and the gameplay was solid as far as i can remember.
MVP 2005. The end of an era of great baseball games in my opinion. With stellar grahics for the time, and excellent controls there was no better representation of America's pastime.

My eyes have been re-opened thanks to MLB 09 The Show and MLB 2K9. Both look to be solid games this year.

[SBartlett]

= ) Yeah all those games are classics. i couldn't incorporate all of them otherwise the article would've been 10 pages lol. i liked tony larussa back in the day and world series baseball 95. i also played high heat 02/03 once and remember it was nice.

[hq3000]

A game that i remember to be legendary just for the sheer amount of games I played was Tony Larussa Baseball. I just remember keeping track of my stats on hundreds of pages of paper. It was ridiculous how big of a nerd I was back then. Still am because I wouldn't be constantly daydreaming of the Show 09.

I also like to remember a little known beast of a player only known as Gerald Williams. His stats for his season with the Yanks was really low but for some reason he could hit 60 HR's a season. HIm and Kevin Maas were like Mantle and Maris of the videogame circuit. Go figure.

[cinders]

Bad News Baseball...I can remember, it was one of the only games my dad liked to play with me (that and NES Open golf!)
The other for me would have to be World Series Baseball on the genesis...I used to play it on my game gear and it was the first portable sports game that I remember being great.

[Chizzypoof]

Bases Loaded
This was my legendary series. It was the first baseball game I played that had a behind the pitcher view. Plus the packed lineup of the J team had a heart of the order that had legendary players Becker, Paste and Bay.Finally, this was the game I was playing in '89 when the Earthquake hit San Francisco. There is no better way to place a game into legendary status than to have a natural disaster make it a lasting memory.

[techhokies]

Maybe not legendary like some of the other games mentioned, but the first game that got me into running a franchise in baseball games was World series baseball 2k3.