World Series Baseball and the Sega Saturn

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A quick overview of the World Series Baseball games on the Saturn and the series that inspired it.
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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Episode Notes:
1. All games captured on real hardware.
2. These games had some team customization features I didn't cover here so I could keep the runtime down.
3. Sega's last lineup of mainline sports offerings were the ESPN titles on the Xbox and PS2. Once Sega lost the NFL license to EA, they sold off Visual Concepts and exited the market as a prolific sports developer/publisher.

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@JohnnyGooch79 5 месяцев назад

WSB '98 is still my favorite Baseball game on any console. That Mariners team was phenomenal !

@G14Classified 5 месяцев назад

The best team on there

@thejervis86 5 месяцев назад

Masterpiece game!

@Karateka1973 5 месяцев назад

I've had my Genesis copy of World Series Baseball for 30 years and still fire it up from time to time. In 1994 this game was the only baseball we had, as we were experiencing another baseball strike or lock-out. I also have my Saturn and World Series 98 is my go-to sports title on that console. I'm playing a season on it now.

@IMDLEGEND 5 месяцев назад

I was so glad that Sega Sports had made a strong comeback with the Dreamcast. To be fair the later Soccer games on the Saturn turned out very well too.

@fabiosemino2214 5 месяцев назад

I bought 3 soccer games at the time, Euro96, Worldwide soccer 97, and fifa98, while I had a ton of fun with the second one and less with the others I find these sports games the one I come back less these days

@kokocostanza2036 5 месяцев назад

Mostly strong comeback. NFL, NBA, AND NHL2k were good and the 2k1 were even better (no NHL), but WBS 2k1 was an absolute pile of trash. The players and stadiums looked great, but everything else was a disaster.

@IMDLEGEND 5 месяцев назад

@@kokocostanza2036 I never played the Dreamcast baseball game. That’s so surprising since Sega was so strong with their baseball games up until the Dreamcast.

@kokocostanza2036 5 месяцев назад

@IMDLEGEND It was absolute trash. The fielding was automatic and there was no way to disable it. The audio was muffled and baserunning was a chore. It got terrible reviews and it deserved all of them. Thankfully 2k2 was a completely different engine and while not fantastic, was light years ahead of 2k1.

@LordTeaboBaggins 5 месяцев назад

@@kokocostanza2036 it also had a bug where custom players never regained stamina after games

@jburdsinfuse 4 месяца назад

Who would have thought the golden era of sports would have been 30 years ago?

@TillsterT 5 месяцев назад

To this day World series baseball II (Saturn) is my fav of all time !!!

@jeffm5056 5 месяцев назад

My friend and I had a series going with World Series Baseball '98 as the Cincinnati Reds, and went through half the season undefeated. We would hang out at my house and play a couple games a night every week. It was a great memory of my late teens. I wish I still had my Saturn. I've always regretted not finishing the season.

@briantaylorcloe7725 5 месяцев назад

Awesome!! I did the same with the Mariners, for part II ... My best friend joined me for just a few of those games, cause we had to balance our game sessions with Bomberman, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart among others; but I got ⁸ or ⁹ of my Seattle Squad into the All•Star game ... Hehe

@Adam_M_D 5 месяцев назад

Nice ❤

@andman433 4 месяца назад

Me and my brother did the same thing with the Reds on the first World Series on Saturn. I think we went 159-3. My brother lost all the of the games and I never let him live it down. 😂

@GotTheBestLigma 3 месяца назад

Go Reds!

@Pally356 5 месяцев назад

My dad, brother and I would always play World Series Baseball I and II together. Many great memories. Its a shame that Sega Sports eventually folded. I know alot of the dreamcast sports games were really well received. But I guess alot of things changed in sports games with the exclusivity deals. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

@nicolaashamman6201 5 месяцев назад

Ah, I recognise that lovely, gritty NAOMI World Series Baseball music. I forget sometimes how hard the Saturn WSB music is to find. I really should sort out the sound test recordings I did maybe a year ago for the first two. The GREATEST NINE opening movie themes are pretty banger.

@tom11zz884 5 месяцев назад

World Series baseball 98 was praised by reviewers back in the day for being the best baseball game on any system at the time. Still holds up well today.

@jwilder2251 4 месяца назад

I feel bad for early Saturn adopters, but I bought it late with WSB 98 and Virtua Fighter 2 - those games alone were well worth the price of admission

@icenine09 5 месяцев назад

YES DUDE! This was my jam back in the day.

@an0therdimensi0n99 4 месяца назад

the time went by so fast. whistling outside to get cousin's attention to answer the door. 3rd flood. hot af. world series baseball 5 hours

@mjf8897 5 месяцев назад

World Series Baseball 2 is peak 2D baseball. the homerun derby is worth the price of admission all by itself.

@SpecialAgentEBunny 4 месяца назад

World Series 95 on Genesis is one of my favorite games of all time. Still play it to this day and the battery still works

@6sKi6z6 5 месяцев назад

I got WSB on a sampler disc that came with my Saturn. It allowed you to play the home run derby. I’m really not that big a sports videogame fan, but this one was fun. I ended up eventually getting the full game and loving it. The one gripe I’ll always remember about it is that the sound f*cks up when it says Frank Thomas.

@Real_Sgt_Tom 5 месяцев назад

The fact that these games have more presentation than the RBI Baseball games of the past few years continues to show what Sega did that other simply Don't.

@timothymoynihan8063 5 месяцев назад

I played tf outta this on my Saturn.

@megabyteDeSu. 4 месяца назад

WONDERFUL TIMES!!!

@boredstudent 5 месяцев назад

My ex-brother in law had World Series Baseball 98 on his Saturn. He was a pretty big Sega fan himself

@rancid_ 5 месяцев назад

I miss Sega sports games, I hope one day they try again although I imagine the cost to license one of these games would be insane by today's standards.

@halfling_barista 5 месяцев назад

I’m not into sports or sports games, but this was one of my favorite Saturn games.

@mccalejk2 4 месяца назад

The only baseball game where I completed a 162 game season… with only 4 stadiums 😅

@supercap3000 5 месяцев назад

I played WSB 1 and 2 on the Saturn with my older brother We LOVED the games and played them for hours on end I have to say that I’m not sure if it was the jump to polygons or what but we didn’t love 98 as much as the first entries. We were really of the mindset of “if it aint broke don’t fix it” Another point- SLX mentions that the differences from 1 to 2 were minimal like roster changes etc. we were hardcore fans of part 1 and the additions in part 2 were amazing and worth it. All the stadiums were included (pt 1 only had 4 of them I believe). Also, more batting stances were included especially ones accurate to the players (realistic batting stances were a big deal). Also, all the players now had their jersey number on the back. Amazing memories Thank you SLX again

@MrKrustaceon 5 месяцев назад

Man I love your intro

@PogueSquadron 5 месяцев назад

I remember playing a lot of World Series Baseball back in the day with my brother on the Genesis. Once Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run came out for SNES though, we were done. Even without the real players, we couldn’t get enough of it.

@GameSack 5 месяцев назад

Baseball games were great until they started getting the official licenses and taking themselves too seriously. Those World Series games on the Genesis are much worse than Tommy Lasorda with that hit box and all. However the first World Series Baseball on the Saturn was great fun. Literally the most recent baseball game I have enjoyed. The widescreen support in the Greatest Nine games is bad as it stretches the batter view because they didn't spend the ten minutes needed to compensate for that. And of course they brought that dumb hitting box back. I guess I just prefer my sports games to be more arcadey and less simulation.

@kupwav 5 месяцев назад

LOVED WSB!!!

@terranceoliver8935 5 месяцев назад

I remember first playing this on the Saturn demo disc, home run derby mode. And loved it, thought it was fantastic

@co81385 4 месяца назад

I am glad that you are covering this game! I absolutely LOVED these games. I am not really a baseball fan, but I loved these games. I had many, many, many afternoons with friends having very competitive games against each other with these games. Also, those games could potentially break out into fights, if someone threw the scroogie pitch! 😂 By the way, I prefer the arcadey style of the 2D World Series games than that or World Series '98. To me, World Series Baseball 2 for the Saturn is the baseball equivalent of NHL '94.

@jasonz7788 5 месяцев назад

Great job segalordx

@philmason9653 4 месяца назад

I hope you do get around to doing other Sega sports series videos. Specifically Sega's Genesis NFL & MLB series. There's a bunch of Genesis Madden series retrospectives & rankings but I can't find anyone who's gone through the Sega stuff. The Dreamcast NBA & NFL games are a natural as well, but probably deserve their own videos considering all the circumstances surrounding them and their subsequent influence.

@georgelea4297 5 месяцев назад

WSB 2 was my favorite game on the saturn

@stanwright4110 5 месяцев назад

I loved World Series Baseball on the Saturn. I remember when I got World Series Baseball 2k on the Dreamcast and I hated it, and now I know why.

@VirtuaIceMan 5 месяцев назад

World Series Baseball '96 appeared on PC too in Japan only, despite having the US teams in. I imported a copy but it's really hard to get running well on a modern PC. It appears to be based on WSB'95 presumably with '96 teams.

@Ekorslk 4 месяца назад

Baseball advanced on the GBA is my favorite baseball game ever.

@J3D1xKN1GHT 5 месяцев назад

I loved world series baseball 2 on the saturn it was my go to baseball game for the longest time. I was blown away by the graphics at the time, my uncle even thought I was watching a baseball broadcast one time I was playing it at my cousins house. I have good memories of this game, the opening fmv though brought bitter memories for me though because it highlighted the braves, Indians world series that took place the year before when those stinking braves broke my heart beating my Indians. Still loved the game though lol.

@Rockhead84 4 месяца назад

I think the 1st one looked the best. Always loved the Genesis versions of this series.

@LJW1912 5 месяцев назад

I own both World Series Baseball 2 and Greatest Nine '98 (the year my team, the Yokohama BayStars, won the championship)

@jpesicka492 5 месяцев назад

Played this on Game Gear. One of the most common to find at a local retro game store.

@swissmrkc 5 месяцев назад

Same the game gear game was great

@lhfirex 5 месяцев назад

The Greatest Nine games look like they'd still be fun to play today.

@Lightblue2222 5 месяцев назад

I love the Genesis / 32X version. So it's pretty cool to learn about the Saturn version.

@ProcyonAlpha 5 месяцев назад

I have both wsb 1 and 2 on thr saturn, love them.

@guitarspud1723 5 месяцев назад

Go padres! And tony! I have not followed baseball since his passing...

@BearfootBob 5 месяцев назад

Earl Weaver Baseball was my baseball jam

@Harerazer 5 месяцев назад

The only MLB game I ever put real time into.

@RobertLewis85 5 месяцев назад

I only played Sewer Shark on Sega CD and I kinda liked it but I was really young and it was a difficult game for me.

@AndyVanHalen 5 месяцев назад

Great video. I imported all the Greatest Nine series because they are dirt cheap. In some cases I prefer those games. All the Sega baseball games are excellent in my opinion (except the Dreamcast games), with Baseball Advance being one of my favorite games of all time.

@Gluttonite 4 месяца назад

My Bro and I would battle daily. Classic

@billcook4768 5 месяцев назад

Realistic “Angel Hernandez” mode at 5:45

@projectmayhem6898 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@dnznznfjsnsnsms9996 5 месяцев назад

Idk why but Sega Lord X is one of my favorite shows to watch lately. Have went thru countless videos of his just very relaxing stress relieving and interesting

@Mitsuraga 5 месяцев назад

Huh. And here I always thought that World Series Baseball '98 was an MLB-ified version of Greatest Nine '98, not '97. Shows what I know.

@Smalltummywonderful 5 месяцев назад

My brother, his friends, and myself have all played this game. Love this game on the Sega Genesis

@sonicsega1699 5 месяцев назад

nowadays if you want a good baseball game, slugfest is the only option

@darrink6214 3 месяца назад

WSB 98 for the Saturn is possibly the best baseball game ever made. Is there a more fun baseball game , possibly not !

@_NoDrinkTheBleach 5 месяцев назад

I remember having my heart broken by WSB2K1. I was a huge fan of the Genesis and Saturn releases, but the first Dreamcast game was barely a game at all. I never even tried 2K2.

@amirprog 5 месяцев назад

And having great soccer and basketball series for the saturn? No no no.

@death2all79zx 5 месяцев назад

A pitcher named Vaughn, does he have the horn rims and does he have the killer fastball?

@Ashura96 5 месяцев назад

Is it just me or does the first World Series Baseball on Saturn only have a limited number of stadiums to play in?

@AguilaDeOnix85 5 месяцев назад

Your point about Sega of America constantly dropping the ball is on point. It was happening when SCEA was showing up with NCAA Gamebreaker and NFLGame Day. N64 had pro wrestling on lock. Man, it felt like Sega was fumbling on purpose.

@nickr6926 5 месяцев назад

Please do a video on the High Heat series!

@GuitarAnthony 5 месяцев назад

Excellent video. Luckily when we got Dreamcast the sports lineup became best in the business.

@themystx2 5 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention home run king on GameCube, it was 2k1 on Dreamcast but nowhere as bad.

@Aragorn7884 5 месяцев назад

Triple Play '97 ❤😅

@jagergerg9771 5 месяцев назад

I played on the Dreamcast

@geemoney1982 4 месяца назад

I never met anybody who had a sega Saturn

@spencerstevens2175 5 месяцев назад

Where did you get your intro music?

@joelruys9604 4 месяца назад

Hey Sega Lord X, do Japanese RAM cart pack-in games always have the disc case with no back cover? Or is that a quirk from buying second hand?

@SegaLordX 4 месяца назад

That's how they came.

@joelruys9604 4 месяца назад

@@SegaLordX Thank you for the reply :) It's cool that you are down to earth

@lldjslim 5 месяцев назад

The only sport that sega sports got right on the saturn, baseball I just wish world Series Baseball had a instant replay feature Hey, sega lord x, can u give NFL '97 second look

@sos.gamers 5 месяцев назад

Places where "World" Series is played: USA. Funny people XD

@hitstickpsycho188 5 месяцев назад

:20 buns

@jerkusclownstar 5 месяцев назад

In other great FANTASTICAL news A's is coming to Vegas. Come on let's sing, "Take me out to the ballgame". ⚾️

@accumulator5734 4 месяца назад

Game critics always mess up a good thing, when Gears 1 released critics mocked it’s bad ass art style saying out was different shades of brown. Then because of that Gears 2 and 3 were more colorful, it looked terrible 🤦🏻‍♂️. Definitely not as cool as Gears one

@dmitch1983 5 месяцев назад

No balls 😂

@jerkusclownstar 5 месяцев назад

lol 😆

@jamesbrassfield8409 5 месяцев назад

What's up everyone

@J3D1xKN1GHT 5 месяцев назад

I actually hated the move to full 3d in world series baseball 98 I thought the players went from good looking realistic 2d sprites to ugly polygons I couldn't get past the graphical change in it.

@briantaylorcloe7725 5 месяцев назад

That is how I felt , but really wanna play it now! LoL

@davidowens7305 5 месяцев назад

Always Enjoy that you bring up the retro sports games. They always feel left out of Video game history

@TheMucky88 5 месяцев назад

I had World Series Baseball released in '94 on the Genesis and I remember it being tremendous. I was only around 6 years old when I got it but I knew even then it was good, just like I knew Desert Strike was quality. I would play those games until I got blisters on my fingers.

@r-rod8116 5 месяцев назад

I still remember World Series Baseball II on Sega Saturn. One time, I played it, and it was raining on that game. It would sometimes call all players to return to their own dugout depending on how hard it would rain, and it would either bring the players out or call the game due to rain. Good times.

@briantaylorcloe7725 5 месяцев назад

I remember that, too! Got a few quick wins that way .... LoL Maybe losses and even draws, if that is possible ... Hehehe

@IMDLEGEND 5 месяцев назад

I love games that put in those little details. It adds so much to the experience!

@mrfake675 16 часов назад

I had a no hitter going into the 9th and it called my game. I have never forgiven Sega for this clear abuse of power.

@MatthewCobalt 5 месяцев назад

"Not to be confused with 'World Series Baseball'"

@Lightblue2222 5 месяцев назад

I love that game.

@Mitsuraga 5 месяцев назад

🐼

@RetroEmpireDefend 4 месяца назад

One of the Greatest game Franchises of the 90s. As a sports fan, this franchise was absolute Gold back then.

@darylr2370 4 месяца назад

Played the hell out of this back in the day. First game where my dad was impressed by the gfx, lol.

@Canadian_Gamer 5 месяцев назад

I had this game on launch, it was a great game.

@jerkusclownstar 5 месяцев назад

How awesome is that

@GhostStalkerActual 5 месяцев назад

They got panned for only doing roster updates lol. Today they'll tell you it's worth $100 for ultimate team cards

@ikemenbcn24 5 месяцев назад

I had world series baseball II and was awesome gem and world series baseball 2k1 on dreamcast, nice times

@RARufus 5 месяцев назад

This game was so incredible at the time. I played many, many hours of WSB1 & 2, Victory Goal Soccer, NHL Powerplay and others. So many great memories of the Saturn!!

@ProcyonAlpha 5 месяцев назад

I only picked up NHL power play recently, it's great! Probably my third favorite game , bested by slapshot on the master system and hitz 2003 on the gc

@filipmartinez1162 5 месяцев назад

Was a shame they didnt have a single 3D football game. The Saturn could have pulled off Blitz 99.

@BurningRangers 4 месяца назад

Baseball was pretty well represented on the Saturn even in the US. You should review some of the others and do a best of list.

@mjdf122 5 месяцев назад

Sega Lord X Sega Saturn and World Series Baseball amazing memories thank you for taking us back in time every video I’ve blessed to see all from 1980-Now

@lonin2533 5 месяцев назад

個人的にセガの野球ゲームといったら「プロ野球チームをつくろう!」の派生の「プロ野球チームであそぼう!」ですね。あれは守備でのキャッチが選手視点になっていて、見上げながらキャッチするので他の野球ゲームと差別化できてましたね

@Lord_Deimos 5 месяцев назад

I couldn't care less about baseball but it's a Sega Lord video and I'm gonna watch it

@mathewkolakwsk 5 месяцев назад

What great memories! These games were so solid, and just plain fun. And watching my guy Ozzie Guillen hitting a double with two strikes (on World Series Baseball for the Saturn)… it just warms my heart :-) NOTE: Ozzie would eventually become the manager for the 2005 World Series champion White Sox, and today he is one of the pre and post-game hosts for the team on the channel that airs Sox games, NBC Sports Chicago.

@dragonz6189 5 месяцев назад

Love your channel and the content you cover man!

@BryanTruong 5 месяцев назад

I liked NBA Action 98 and NHL PowerPlay 96/All Star Hockey 98 on the Saturn. Shame Sega didn't have a great Football game on the Saturn, although the 2K Football games on Dreamcast blew me away at the time

@maroon9273 5 месяцев назад

Sucks sega never developed any nfl and nba games during it's launch. Missed 1995 major football and basketball game releases.

@michaeloffgrid 5 месяцев назад

World Series Baseball on the Genesis was the first sports game I remember being reviewed as a great *game* -- not just a great sports game. Game Players magazine scored the first WSB on the Saturn a whopping 97, which IIRC, equaled their score for Final Fantasy 6.

@MichaelTorres-b2v 5 месяцев назад

I loved World Series 98. Sega did the right thing by sacrificing a couple of polygons k the player models so the game could run at a silky smooth frame rate. Meanwhile, EA’s Triple Play games had horrible frame rates so they could cram every polygon they could into the player models. Those games were atrocious.

@RicardoRandom691 5 месяцев назад

Great video, and now I'm ready to revisit the series :) I'd love a deep dive into the Joe Montana series, especially its tangled origins with Madden, since EA and Park Place Productions were involved in its development. PPP are deserving of a video of their own, too!

@IndyF1FanMarquis 5 месяцев назад

I always hear the frustration and disappointment in Sega Lord X's voice when he speaks of the western developers for Sega, and I completely understand it. Remembering that time personally, it's a wonder how Sega themselves completely disavowed the reviews and complaints from the fans. I refuse to believe that they were completely cut off from the criticism. Not that every title out of Japan was a winner, but more often than not they were. You'd think this would've been some kind of motivation to the western developers to step up their game. Half the problem in my mind was development time. Sega of America always seemed like they were in a rush to put out games on the Saturn; there were always delays of some kind. I think that goes all the way back to the rushed launch. A bit off topic, but relevant to what happened with so many of the sports titles that released on all of Sega's consoles in the west after the Genesis.

@BobbyHo2022 5 месяцев назад

Ive given up on sega making a new console and just spending rest of my life enjoying what they got out.

@jerkusclownstar 5 месяцев назад

Sega will remain a third party forever. 😈 In fact they should have never had made consoles, consoles were a mistake for them.