"With the latest baseball titles out on the market, it's a great time to reflect on baseball games of year's past. What old baseball title did you enjoy playing the most?"

Patrick Williams: Ah spring is in the air, and soon I will have to dig the ole lawnmower out once again, but not before another 40 inches of snow falls on Western PA. No matter, baseball is here!

My favorite though has to be MVP '05 for the PC. I loved that game and played the hell out of it. It was the first game I made all the way through the playoffs and world series, and even through an offseason before my interest dwindled and I moved on to another game full time.

As I always tell people, if you can play a full season with the Pirates then it is dedication. With MVP though I had a blast. I had tons of add ons for the game produced by the community. I had shoes, bats, gloves, jerseys, ballpark ads, and custom music and tv style overlays. The game looked and played like real baseball, and I loved most every minute of it!

Chris Sanner: I can either pick High Heat Baseball or Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball in this spot. I'm honestly torn here. The latter is the only game I have ever played a full 162 game season on the former is the only game that held my interest over a period of 12 seasons or more.

I think I honestly must go with Griffey Jr. Baseball though because my boy Alamo on the mound was ferocious and Earp and Lee were the centerpieces of my lineup ... even though I spent painstaking hours renaming the rosters for an authentic feel. Real stadiums + real players allowed me to spend hours with that game. It was so fast paced too, definitely a ton of memories to be had.

Matt Blumenthal: I did most of my early sports gaming on the PC, and Old Time Baseball stands out as my favorite. Built on the Tony La Russa Baseball engine, it had revolutionary gameplay and AI for its time.

Old Time Baseball had the lineups of almost every team over the last 100 years along with several classic ballparks. You could choose between the legendary announcers Mel Allen and Curt Gowdy for play-by-play. For a young baseball fan, it was a fun game to play and an excellent lesson in baseball history.

TJ Cutini: I'm with you on High Heat, Chris. To me, nothing beat one-pitch manage only mode, an ice cold beer, and 3 hours to kill on a Saturday afternoon. Other than say the Out of the Park series, no other baseball game got the stats as dead on as High Heat did. Sure, the graphics were way less than what you'd find on a PS2 or Xbox at the time, but that didn't matter to me at all. Baseball is a game of numbers and High Heat got them right more often than not.

Dave Branda: I loved High Heat. At the time it was a refreshing change from what had been years of more arcade-like titles.

I am going old-old school for my answer - Baseball Stars. I have always been a fan of team building in sports games, and this is where that all started. Create a mediocre (at best) team. Use your hard earned money to buy player upgrades or new veteran super stars. And lets not forget the ability to trade. At the time this was unheard of in console sports gaming.

This game had such lure that when I was in high school my friends and I bought one of the new front loading Nintendos just so we could fire up a Baseball Stars league. We each created our own teams using the same crude names Al Bundy used for his professional softball league - with yours truly rocking the Chicago Cleavage. (My brother was late to the team naming ceremony so we gave him the San Francisco Guys - he wasn't happy).

Matt Gagnon: While it's not old per se, the baseball game I played the most was MVP 05 for the PS2. I don't ever recalling playing so many seasons in a franchise with any other baseball game. But there are few that I still play just for fun that are a lot older. First is Great Baseball for the SEGA Master System. It's a pretty basic baseball game but is still fun to play. Obviously there's no real game modes except exhibition, but it's very accessable and enjoyable.

The next is World Series Baseball '96 for the Genesis. I played it a ton when it came out and I still like to play the occasional season. It was one of the first deep season modes with trades and whatnot so it was really the first title that I could sit down and play for hours on end.

As for all of this High Heat lovin', I think it's farily overrated. The graphics were always subpar, the pitching system was simplistic, and despite being realistic I thought it was a serious snoozer. I say quit living in the past.

Chris Sanner: High Heat overrated? Are you kidding me? For its time, High Heat was light years ahead of the competition. Honestly, I think the foundation for a lot of what MLB '08: The Show is doing is based on what High Heat started. High Heat started a new era of baseball games, I think for that reason alone it is a significant title.

Dave Branda: You have to look at a games impact too Matty. I don't think you have an MVP 05 without the High Heat series. And as Chris mentioned, The Show might not be the same either.

Matt Gagnon: You High Heat fanboys are so sensitive. How dare anybody call out the game we loved and cherished!?!?!?! It's like I just called your children ugly or something. Face it, not everybody loved High Heat. It was an OK game but it wasn't the cat's meow. Another thing that I love is all of these so-called achievements it's getting credited. It's now responsible for the creation of the MVP series and now The Show. Did it also cure polio? Heal the sick? Change water to wine? Sorry to bruise so many egos.

Chris Sanner: Actually rumor has it the cure for the common cold was well within reach of the High Heat crew just before it was canceled ...

Chase Becotte: I'm not touching the High Heat argument. I enjoyed it, and it had a good simulation engine if I remember correctly. But I was a young one when the game was in its prime so I really don't remember how great it really was. Can we just agree that Microsoft is foolish for not trying to bring the HH engine back in some fashion?

Switching gears, I played a ton of Bases Loaded III with some friends a few years back. I had just purchased an NES and Bases Loaded 3 was one of the games the system came with when I bought it on eBay. I didn't really know much about the game going into it, and I probably should find out what the first two were like; but, either way there was a certain charm about BLIII.

I think some of the charm came from the crazy music mixed with the ability to throw 37 mph pitches followed by 90+ mph gas; or the fact that if you moved one fielder they all moved in harmony (I know most baseball games did this at the time as well but nonetheless weird to see), and the fact that all the teams were ambiguous. I mean the initials for the teams were E or De (there's a team in Delaware I guess?) etc. Mix all that together and it just made for a good time experience.