For as long as there have been video game systems, there have been sports video games, and through the years, some of the best games ever made have been baseball games.
From the first baseball game for the Atari 2600 system back in 1978 to MLB2K11 this season for the Xbox 360 and PS3, there have been some great games, as well as some not so great games. It should be noted, PC games were not included for the sake of the list, so no Backyard Baseball (and no the PS@ version doesn't make the cut).
So here are my power rankings for the top 50 baseball video games through the years. I took into account how the game compared to its counterparts when it was released, if the game brought any groundbreaking innovations to the table and how playable the game still is today.
Baseball stars should be higher, ASB should be higher, High Heat should be no lower than 4, and I spent a year and a half playing Super Tecmo Baseball...
It was ranked behind super Mario baseball. That was all I needed to see.
Right?
It may have been ugly as hell(in hindsight especially)...some of the Frankenstein faces still give me horrors..
But under the hood...that was one heck of a game.(the series)...and the one that really kicked me into editing rosters.
It should be MUCH higher.
Right?
It may have been ugly as hell(in hindsight especially)...some of the Frankenstein faces still give me horrors..
But under the hood...that was one heck of a game.(the series)...and the one that really kicked me into editing rosters.
It should be MUCH higher.
M.K.
Knight165
And that's before we even start to mention the capabilities of the tuning file....
You could literally tweak that game to any style of baseball that you wanted, once you understood just what all that file could do...
Very nice article! I pretty much agree for the most part... HH maybe a little higher (personally), but not a big issue. Looking at the list made me realize just how much of a baseball fanatic I am, and always have been. And, that I'm getting up there in years (looking at the release dates), LOL.
Everyone has already mentioned the HH snub, so I don't have to say anything else about that. Personally, I will never understand why so many people love(d) MVP so much. IMO it is the most overrated sports video game series ever.
The game being martyred,(like NFL 2K) is a large part of it IMO.