The Top Five Console Baseball Sims Not Named The Show

[MrCWS83]

Legends of the Diamond was an awesome game on NES. I have spent plenty of down time at the fire station playing this and Tecmo Super Bowl

[mb625]

My favorite growing up was always MLBPA Baseball on the Genesis. I never got to play Larussa, so take that for what it's worth, but MLBPA was easily my favorite.

[TjJunior]

Quote: Originally Posted by speedtrucker

EA MVP '06 NCAA college world series was actually better than MVP '05. MVP'06 introduced Precision load'n'fire throwing in the field and load'n'fire batting.

Yeah, I still got it somewhere around my house on Xbox. I'm partial to the 07 version myself, only because they added analog hitting. Since I broke out my PS2 recently(fat PS3 died) might as well get it off amazon.

[pistolpete]

MVP was an amazing experience back in the day which is what gives me such fond memories of it. My roommate and I shared a Blue Jays franchise and got through two full seasons. It was an epic journey of video gaming that I could never achieve ever again. It was released in March of 2005 and I got married in August of 2006 and never played it on a console ever again. For 16 months it was a religion.

Now I have two kids, a career and a mortgage and my memories of MVP are pretty much my last link to the simpler life.

I will say that 2k12 is enjoying a little bit of an afterlife, at least in my book. What the roster mods have done for the game have made it pretty amazing. Working the count and making pitchers work is more rewarding in this game than any other I have played.

2k12 has a lot going for it. Don't sleep on it xbox owners.

[mkharsh33]

I was a senior in college when LaRussa 95 was the baseball game of choice with my friends.

True story: we took turns playing an inning - 3 of us, so 3 innings apiece. We were playing with the Marlins (not sure why). Jeff Mutis was our starting pitcher. He had a no-hitter going. Bottom of the 9th - 2 outs. Last out was a fly ball that had to be caught with a wall-climbing catch to secure the no hitter. We were jumping around like a bunch of fools. We then sent Jeff Mutis a letter, telling him of our feat with his digitalized counterpart.

.....We are still waiting to hear back from him.