Not gonna lie tho, I think “the show” has rlly nailed it over the years. It’s so detailed and the reactions are like immediate with whatever button you hit, the best baseball series that I’ll buy EVERY year
I thought so before I bought The Show 22. Every year, new improvements, I was so excited to see what they would do. It's the same thing. Literally, the same exact thing
Griffey Presents is still my all time favorite baseball game. I still play seasons here and there to this day. Triple Play 98 was good too, and MVP 2005 was outstanding.
Nice showcase of the baseball games. The first one I played was Baseball on NES (1986 or 1987). Then, I really enjoyed the first Bases Loaded (1987) also on NES. But I don't know how much hours I played MVP Baseball 2005 on PS2 and Windows. I'm still playing my dynasty mode today on Windows. In that case, MVP Baseball 2005 is my all-time favorite!
Baseball Stars was peak 2 player baseball. You could create your own players, and it kept stats! Most importantly, it was fun as hell to play! Me and 2 friends played seasons in it because it actually had schedules and it let you play out of order, so if my friend couldn't come over for 2-3 days, he could just play all of his scheduled games in a clump later. Peak gaming with friends.
Reggie Jackson Baseball (1988) for the Sega Master System was advanced for the time. It included voice call outs for all the key plays like - Playball, Strike, Ball, Out, Safe, and Home run. It also featured sweet picture in picture for the watching first for the steal.
You forgot two HIGHLY underrated games on the wii called MLB Power Pros and Power Pros 08. American releases of at this point japan only series, not counting these two. They were insanely fun to play and had a unique style that really made it a great kids game that fans of baseball could easily get into.
microsoft baseball looks amazing - graphics, frame rate, presentation. Seems like a huge leap from previous games Altho I grew up on NES RBI baseball, then went to Base Wars, and then recently tried The Show '20. Missed everything in between!
My first baseball game was Baseball for Colecovision, with the special controllers. Great times. WSB 2 on Sega Saturn is one of the best ever. Still fun to this day.
Like I mentioned I alone have gotten probably 70+ baseball games. Almost all of the Sega Genesis games, many of the Saturn and Dreamcast versions as well, then the Playstation 1, 2, 3, 4, the PSP, the Vita. The Gameboy, the Nintendos. OMG so much money on the same crap....lol. My game collection was 90% sports/racing, and 10% adventure and fighting. 0% RPG. Except for Knights of the Old Republic. I forgot about the Apple IIe games and the Commodore 64. Again WTH!??
How is Tony La Russa baseball not on here? Spent many nights with my buddy on Tony La Russa Baseball 3 '96 edition getting our butts whooped by the computer.
Earl Weaver Baseball was the best - especially with the Commissioner’s Disk and Players Disks - back in the late 80’s nothing came close. wish it was ported to the iphone
MVP 2005 was a great game... I remember it for graphics, but also because I was a Yankee fan and it was full of songs and players from the 2004 collapse I had to live through. I loved beating the Red Sox over and over, even if I had to play low difficulty to put up 50 runs on them... lol
You missed the best baseball game ever!!! 'Tony Larussa baseball' for sega genesis.. after a close call you could actually argue with the ump and possibly get ejected!!
Agreed! Unfortunately, I only got to play Baseball Stars once, but it was a blast (and I’m pretty sure that somebody stole it from the Blockbuster Video that I used to rent from since it was NEVER there and I used to go 4-5 times/week) and I absolutely loved Baseball Simulator 1.000
@@t-max7261 me, my brother and one friend rented baseball simulator 1000 from blockbuster and played a 60 game season in like 4 days. We had are own teams so that's like 180 games. Still not sure how we did it.
@@briangoodie3420 For sure! My buddy would invite 5 of us over when we were like 14 or 15 and we would all create our own teams and then stay up all night playing the 5-game, round-robin season against each other. Great fun!
@Bread And Circuses more factors than I can list but some are these: dozens of historic ballparks and old hall of famers you can unlock, you could create players with extremely unique pitches and approximate their throwing mechanics like Koufax’s curve ball, fantastic challenging mini-game to unlock content, the game mechanics felt and looked great, used to set up 1 inning games with friends essentially sudden death… unfortunately it was EA’s final entry in MLB games
I gotta give it to MLB The Show, it's a series that knew how to evolve, even in the smallest ways. The 2018 game was the peak in terms of quality and modes to offer, with the 4 later years just making things either more polished, expanding on things and just getting more and more accessible with multiplatform versions
In terms of old and gold baseball games, my favorites are... Super World Stadium 92 Sports Talk Baseball Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB Super Kyukyoku Harikiri Stadium 1 and 2 Super Bases Loaded 3 Baseball Stars 2 on Neo Geo 2020 Super Baseball Bottom of the 9th on PS1 Base Wars Clutch Hitter on Game Gear and arcades MVP Baseball 2005 RBI Baseball on NES and RBI Baseball 94
@@angelriverasantana7755 In australia i've never seen a P.S 1 OR Xbox 360 baseball game. Any recomendations for an all round one, for those consoles? Thnx. single player mainly.
Bases Loaded was my jam back in the day. Played as Jersey and Ford was practically an auto home run hitter. What was funny, if you hit their star player they would attack you and I forget if either you got ejected or both of you did
"Homerun" and "Real Sports Baseball" for the Atari 2600! Andvthen the original "Backyard Sports Baseball" from the late 90s, the old PC game. " We want a batter not a broken ladder!"
00:30 Intellivision baseball. I spent many hours playing this. There wasn't a one player vs computer mode, had to pitch from one controller and hit with other. I still don't know what those numbers on the controller were for 🤣
I'd still probably be playing Earl Weaver for the nostalgia but I lost my code wheel (and the last time I had the code wheel I couldn't get my computer to adjust the speed... it didn't seem to have a built in clock so the faster your computer the faster everything was... a game designed to need all the processing power of a 486 is unhittable with modern computers!)
N64 changed the game. I remember it did all around, but it's so clear here. The jump in quality at 3:34 Triple play 97.. I remmeber Sega Dreamcast had players blink their eyes first in like 2000-01 and that furthered the metrics
same deal with Madden NFL also, games haven't changed at all even after there has been two console system change/upgrade since PS3 and same the bs with XBox too
There have been so many different iterations of ⚾️🧢baseball🧢⚾️games over the last, WOW 50 years! OMG!😲😱😲😱😲 That's terrifying!😳😬 I can remember my Apple IIe home computer. I had a Strat-o-Matic type Baseball game called Computer Baseball. You got classic teams from all eras. Like the 1927 Yankees, the 1975 Red Sox, the 1957 Braves, etc. You could create a league of classic teams or order the seasons from other years. You could also create teams they didn't have. It was all Statistical based, so you'd enter the name, age, player #, positions, and all of their statistics. Games played, At bats, hits, doubles, triples, Home Runs, RBI's, stolen bases, caught stealing(IF those were even done. Depending on the year, older teams didn't have that statistical data.) Then each team could be calculated into the game. I had the 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 seasons, and I made leagues of my own. The 1982 Brewers, 27 Yankees, etc. It would have you choose pitchers, and line-ups then you'd play the game. Pick the pitches, how to bat, etc. It would tally the stats. It wasn't a great "visual", graphically, but if you loved Statistical analysis, and the idea of playing teams from your era against teams from 1906, 1927, 1945, 1957, etc it was a blast. I'd sit for hours and play game after game. For 95% of you I'll bet this would be BOOOORING. But I also LOVE MLB the Show series. As well as many of the PS1 games, the Vita, the N64, and World Series Baseball for the Sega Genesis was also a favorite of mine. I've owned probably 70+ baseball games over my lifetime. I've been hooked on Baseball since I was 5. Way back when Atari was the WOW system. So I've seen a lot of Baseball ⚾️ games! Yikes. Oh there was also a great Genesis game called Hardball from Tengen I believe. That was an epic baseball game too! In my top 5. Oops RBI Baseball was Tengen. I have to remember who did Hardball and Hardball III. Irk. Ah-ha it was Accolade. RBI Baseball was also really good as well, but Hardball was for me a awesome baseball game.
The rbi series used to make it possible to field the ball on the NES versions but then it tried to get cute afterwards. You couldn’t improve on the original.
