What Baseball Games Are Legendary?

[RaychelSnr]

It just seems fittingly appropriate to look back in time on a day when every sports gamer is ready to dig into the 2009 baseball titles. After all, baseball video games have come a long way over the years.

There are now high-definition games with dynamic lighting, text-sims with incredibly deep franchise modes and even motion-controlled games complete with waggling. Games like MLB 09: The Show on the Playstation 3 have metric stats, formulas,and algorithms to calculate pitch counts, hitter tendencies, pitcher abilities and dynamic situations.

With all the realism found in these beautifully designed sports games, dare we ask the veteran sports gamers if today’s games compare to the level of fun the sports games of the past presented?

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[bronco4434]

For me two games that are legendary are Bad News Baseball and Baseball Stars. Two games that back in the day were classics and played to death by many kids during the summer!!

[rebelfan10]

Earl Weaver baseball!

[Redlegs]

Dusty Diamond Softball, Baseball Stars and the MVP series are my favorites.

[sportyguyfl31]

The High Heat Baseball Series.

Just great stat tracking, and depth. One of my favorite things was to look at the list of retired players. You could see thier year by year career stats, in a baseball card/baseball reference.com type report.

I really liked looking at the career progression of the rookie I brought up from AA at the age of 20, who gradually turned into a multi time 20 game and cy young award winner..on his way to 200 career wins, or the prospect I got in a trade who morphed into a 500 career homer guy..

Those games were total joy for me.

I also loved MVP 2005.

[boomhauertjs]

Here's my list:

Baseball Stars (NES)
Baseball Simulator 1.000 (NES)
Tony LaRussa 3 (PC)
High Heat 2002/2003 (PC)
MVP 2005 (Xbox)

[Vermin]

MVP 2005 (Xbox)
RBI Baseball (NES)
Tony LaRussa Baseball (PC)
Baseball Mogul (PC)
Major League Baseball (INTV)

[clarkerots]

Earl Weaver Baseball because I remember losing hours of my life to that game.

MVP 2005 because the Hitters Eye is a feature that I think should exist in all games. Again, hours lost.

Front Page Sports Baseball 99 because it was the birth of "sliders" with a editable file that governed the physics of the game. Overall it was also a solid title, Front Page Sports (who were way ahead of their time from a Franchise standpoint), and a game that-with a few years to improve itself-would've been the one and only baseball game worth playing.