The rise of Super Mega Baseball has ensured that there is at least one other worthwhile entry arriving across modern platforms, though, and it has two things going for it: It doesn’t have to deal with the slog of annualization that can cause a popular franchise to stagnate, and it’s just an immediate, obvious blast to play.
We’re unlikely to ever go back to that era: Game development is more expensive now than in the ’80s and ’90s, and The Show, like Madden with football or FIFA with soccer, owns the space in no small part because of the head start it has on anyone else. We had realistic sims, arcade-leaning games, and plenty in between. We had series like RBI Baseball, Hardball, World Series Baseball, All-Star Baseball, Triple Play… There was even a game called Relief Pitcher where you could play exclusively as a reliever. There was even a baseball game without any humans at all - they had been replaced by robots in Konami’s Cyber Stadium Series-Base Wars. There were also completely fictional rosters, as in SNK’s Baseball Stars or Jaleco’s Bases Loaded. There were MLB licensed games, of course, but also those licensed by only the MLB Players Association, and titles where the license was just with one real player, like Ken Griffey Jr. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences.
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