My childhood best friend had that one, it was surprisingly really good and had all the real players, I was jealous bigtimeSegata wrote:Still have World Series 95 on Game Gear. I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into it as a kid.
How's it hold up?Segata wrote:Still have World Series 95 on Game Gear. I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into it as a kid.
Still fun to me and I'm not a baseball fan anymore. The music still sticks in my head. I was impressed in the mid 90s hearing speech on a portable.racketboy wrote:How's it hold up?Segata wrote:Still have World Series 95 on Game Gear. I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into it as a kid.
Nice! I love how they even have the pitcher nodding animationsSegata wrote:Still fun to me and I'm not a baseball fan anymore. The music still sticks in my head. I was impressed in the mid 90s hearing speech on a portable.racketboy wrote:How's it hold up?Segata wrote:Still have World Series 95 on Game Gear. I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into it as a kid.
I search for the game on YouTube and, of course, you Review came up firstSNESdrunk wrote:My childhood best friend had that one, it was surprisingly really good and had all the real players, I was jealous bigtimeSegata wrote:Still have World Series 95 on Game Gear. I can't tell you how many hours I sunk into it as a kid.
Shout-out to Roger Clemens MVP Baseball on Game Boy which kept me entertained through many, many long boring trips through Iowa
Great video! This handles the SNES section perfectly for my agenda. I like your approach to gradingSNESdrunk wrote:I've played a gazillion baseball games over the years, and none have topped Griffey Presents MLB for Super Nintendo. I love the careful balance of goofy caricatures and arcade-ish style gameplay, and the baseball physics are reliable and consistent.
One that's really under the radar that I really enjoy is Dynamic Stadium for Super Famicom, it's English-friendly despite never being released outside of Japan, but that's another one that nails the balance between batting pitching and fielding.
A while back I made a video briefly looking over each SNES/SFC baseball game:
I've never considered that before, that's a fantastic point. In still shots, the game looks really cool. In practice, it's horrendous (see also: Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball)racketboy wrote:I noticed the ESPN game. I always remember thinking that title looked cool back in the day. It really looks like it was design for screenshots.
Yeah, I remember thinking the Frank Thomas one looked pretty cool back in the day as well. I'm hoping to watch your first-party Genesis sports game video soon, but I'll put in a request to do a Genesis baseball video like you did for the SNES, but I understand if you don't want to "diversify" too muchSNESdrunk wrote:I've never considered that before, that's a fantastic point. In still shots, the game looks really cool. In practice, it's horrendous (see also: Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball)racketboy wrote:I noticed the ESPN game. I always remember thinking that title looked cool back in the day. It really looks like it was design for screenshots.
