For Nintendo, RBI Baseball 2 and Baseball Stars were the best. For Sega, I loved World Series Baseball and Tony LaRussa Baseball, which was EA Sports before the Triple Play and MVP games came out. Playstation, TP 97 was great. PS2, MVP 04 was the best. And recently, the Show franchise is the best out. Sorry, but it smokes 2k.

I’d have to say, for me, the best Baseball game ever is a tie between MVP 04 and Tony LaRussa Baseball.

MLB 08 The Show and soon to be 09 come march, and yes I still play it in the dead of winter (though no longer with the cubs until next year). You mention that you wish games nowadays included things like record holders and milestones? Well my friend you are behind the times! Just get yourself a ps3 and fire up this game and you’ll be so blown away you’ll never play another baseball game again.

Granted the classics are always great. Heck, I still have the original “Baseball” for NES! Remember when you could curve the pitch when it was in midair?

Do yourself a favor and check out MLB 08 The Show and you won’t be disappointed

Enuff said

Although we did not have home video games in my youth, we did have arcade games in my teen/college years and so I did not hesitate to grab a controller and play along my my kids’ PS1 and PS2 games: High Heat, All-Star Baseball, and some old 1997-era game that had guys like Kevin Tapani and Jeff Blauser on the Cubs roster.

What do you guys recommend for PS3?

Anyone else play this game for the original Nintendo? I absolutely loved it! It was a little different from RBI Baseball, in that the players just had first names, and they teams were fictional (not to mention the stadiums). I still have an old school Nintendo… I might have to pop this game in for a bit this evening!

Best freakin’ baseball video game ever, even if they didn’t have the MLBPA license.

Ryne Sandberg Plays Bases Loaded 2 on my SNES. I still have a copy of it. I played it about a year ago. The graphics sucked, but for some reason I loved the game.

You could create your own team and players and have them be saved to game. It was revolutionary at the time.

Taking the National League (it was the only way to have Dawson, Sandberg and Sutcliffe) and dominating the other 12 teams in the game is the way to go.

Taking the National League (it was the only way to have Dawson, Sandberg and Sutcliffe) and dominating the other 12 teams in the game is the way to go.

…but did anyone else ever play “Little League Baseball” for NES?

The first game w/ actual teams and the glitch where you could run a fielder into the stands and he couldnt escape

but as far as the bells and whistles goes, the show for PS3 is amazing! I wish MVP would would have still continued to be made. .does anyone know if they will ever make another one in the future?

has to be “LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL” for the Nintendo… play with team USA and let the kid WARD bat…. home run … little Babe Ruth in the making….

I loved MVP 05… I give MLB 2K a try every year and its awful… you can get 50 homers in a season with Mike Fontenot…to UNREALISTIC…. but I will be purchasing a PS3 here soon just for The Show 09… I have heard nothing but great things about this series.

You could charge out to the mound and beat up the pitcher if you got hit. It was pretty intense, not gonna lie.

Slightly off topic. Anyone ever play the football game where you had a board, cards and a vhs tape? I think I spent most of the time fast forwarding through the plays until i got what I wanted, too bad real life isn’t like that.

come on great game

Super Bases Loaded (SNES)/Ken Griffey Jr. (N64)/MLB: The Show (PS3/PSP).

I guess that’s just a progression from old to new, it’s hard to compare games across newer/older consoles.

for gamecubs is THE best baseball ever created hands down. it was pure and not too complicated like the new 2K games which are trash. i went apeshit the day i found out they would not continue the MVP line. anyone know why they stopped?

Roger Clemens’ MVP baseball for SNES? The only thing I remember about that game was that you could steal a base every time you tried. This was due to the fact that when the ball got to the bag, there would be a zoom in shot of the fielder and a sliding runner. The fielder would put his glove down to make the tag in either the inside, middle or outside of the bag. However, you could control the sliding runner and move his hand or leg over to avoid the tag and the glove never moved. It was actually easier to steal bags with slow guys since you had more time to react. Decent concept, poor execution.

Anyone know of any good ones? Here are a few (of highly questionable quality) I’ve come across over the years:

• This one was authored by Nabisco to promote its munchies.

• This one is featured on a site called candystand.com, which I believe promotes Life Savers and such. Registration (free) is apparently required because the game wouldn’t load for me before I registered. Doing so may be worth it, however, as the game appears to have been significantly upgraded since I tried it last.

• Here’s one offered by online game emporium miniclip.com. I haven’t tried this one before, but it actually looks kinda cool.

Those games were outstanding. Have each one except ’99 (thinking about buying it off eBay). ASB 05 may very well be my personal favorite, although I will admit MVP 05 was the best one ever made, hands down.

Someone mentioned MLB Featuring Ken Griffey Jr. on N64. I STILL have that game, and still play it regularly. Wish it had a create-a-player option but nevertheless, it’s still a great game, one of my all-time favorites.

I still like the 2K series, but perhaps that’s because it’s my only option these days (no PS3 = no Show). Still, not bad, I spent a lot of days with my Cubs team in the spring and early summer on that game.