The Top Five Console Baseball Sims Not Named The Show

[RaychelSnr]

When I sat down to research and write this article for Operation Sports, I faced a dilemma. I wanted to make this list as comprehensive as any top five list could be, but I've never had the chance to play any iteration of MLB: The Show on PS3. So how does anyone pick only five games from the rich history of video game baseball AND leave out the best console baseball game of the last generation? Well, for me it became about games that I remember loving, and games that are still remembered fondly by my fellow sports gamers. Have a look at my top five greatest console baseball games, The Show excluded, and let me know what you think.

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[SVCbearcat10]

My Sega died a year or two ago, so I can't play World Series Baseball anymore. I loved that game. As I wait for the Show to come out on the PS4, I've been playing Baseball Stars on my NES. That game was ahead of its time.

[mdecicco17]

Can we start a petition for EA to stop making NBA games and make a new MVP? They already have a great engine. Update the graphics, add some new mechanics, and you have a game that instantly competes with the Show (and will dominate the baseball market on Xbox). I just don't understand how EA doesn't see this.

[boomhauertjs]

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I don't understand why Microsoft purchased the rights to High Heat when 3D0 went under and then never did anything with it. Would've made a great XBLA game with updated rosters, unis, etc. every year.

As a non-PS3 owner, I'm still playing MVP 05 on my PC with the great mods over at mvpmods.com. If only it had HD graphics...

[maltliquor23]

1 Pro Yakyuu spirits 2013 2.MVP 05 3 MLB power Pros 4.VR baseball 5.All Star 2003. That's right a Japanese sim over MVP. And it was close I still have an xbox with mvp and love the gameplay itself. I miss the days where we didn't have to screw with sliders for a game to play well.

[redsox4evur]

I am very surprised you did include Ken Griffey Jr. Slugfest on the N64 in this list. This was easily one of the top baseball games I have played including the show. I would probably put that in their over High Heat but that's only because I never played a High Heat game.

[SVCbearcat10]

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Can we start a petition for EA to stop making NBA games and make a new MVP? They already have a great engine. Update the graphics, add some new mechanics, and you have a game that instantly competes with the Show (and will dominate the baseball market on Xbox). I just don't understand how EA doesn't see this.

They don't have the rights to that engine anymore. The studio that makes Pro Yakyuu bought it from EA a few years back I'm pretty sure.

[AaeriosGames]

I remember spending countless hours playing MVP Baseball 05 during one of the summer's of my youth. I had a multi-year franchise with the Red Sox but found myself playing with the AAA squad just as much.

[BSchwartz07]

I really enjoyed EA's NCAA baseball, and before I caved in and got a PS3 I enjoyed a couple of years of 2k... also, when I was younger Little League Baseball in NES was my game!

[A_Quiet_Pro]

It's amazing how these games played and looked back in their day, and now we're looking at what TS 14 is about to deliver on the PS4.

[Retropyro]

Sports Talk Baseball on the Genesis was one of my all-time favorites.

[shogunofharlem3]

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Bases Loaded (first time I felt like I was actually watching a broadcast)

Baseball Stars (I felt like I finally was able to manage a team and upgrade them)

Ken Griffey Snes (just fun, still today so fun, I know not sim, but, so fun)

All Star Baseball 2001 (graphics were unreal at the time)

MVP 05 (of course)

MLB 2k12 (post new updates with MKharsh rosters and my attribute edits)


I had to add 6 to my top 5 console games since I put Ken Griffey which isn't sim but is fun.

[buckeyedawgtribe]

Still waiting for a non sim game like Baseball Simulator to be released again. Nothing felt better than playing someone and watch them launch a homerun only to be robbed by me tapping the B button twice as my player launched 150 feet in the air to snatch it..Made for a great drinking game 20 years ago

[GlennN]

How sad is it that the most recent game on this list came out 9 years ago?

[buckeyedawgtribe]

How sad is it that the most recent game on this list came out 9 years ago?

Good Point Glenn!