Baseball season is upon us so try out these five retro classics that’ll instill an even bigger love for America’s pastime.
Hardball 99: A dark horse classic on the PlayStation. Play it for the historic teams, but stay for the player editor.
RBI Baseball: If you have an NES and don’t own this, trade in your retro game card right now.
Bad News Baseball: This one may have the best animations and pitching of any 8-bit Baseball game.
Little League Baseball: This may be the best baseball game on the NES. The only thing that hurts it is its lack of team teams and players.
Sports Talk Baseball: This Sega Genesis classic has annoying play-0by-play by today’s standards, but it’s still a tremendous amount of fun.
Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by top publishers the likes of Nintendo, Deep Silver, Disney and EA Sports. His book series, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Game Developers," from McFarland and Company, has earned praise from Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Daily News and MSG Networks. He is also a former editor at NBC and National Video Games Writer at the late-Examiner.com
