Best SNES baseball game
User Rating: 7.5 | The Sporting News: Baseball SNES
Overall a very good baseball game for the snes. It tracks your individual player stats thru a full 162 game season. It has a certain degree of difficulty but it is not impossible to sit down and play. I loved playing the night all star game in the "field of dreams" field. Mark Mcgwire could hit some CRAZY home runs! (636 ft) Now we know why! The base steling was pretty fun. Although making it from 2nd to third was virtually impossible. Believe it or not, bunting was another aspect of the game that I liked. Squeezing in a runner home from 3rd was extremely cool. The pitching could be a little quirky. Most batters would hit or miss based on your pitch but a few hitters could knock the cover off the ball no matter where you threw it. Deion Sanders was one. Barry Larkin and Bo Jackson (yes, I said Bo Jackson) could also hit it for at least a double regardless of the pitch location. The fielding was pretty standard for any nes or snes era baseball game. The hitting was the best part of the game. You had a behind the batter's view. (none of that squirrely bases loaded pitchers's view) You actually had quite a bit of mobility of range for swinging your bat for such an early gen baseball game. The homers were pretty difficult to hit, but when you finally did, the home run "moment" was awesome. (except in the home run derby---pretty bland) Overall, I really enjoyed playing this game of hardball.