Spring is finally here! Of course, that means baseball is back, so I figured its time to take a look back at the All-Star Baseball Series. As I discussed in my Gameday review, football games always sort of had “top franchise” that was regarded as being better than its competitors. First it was the Tecmo Bowl series, then Gameday and now Madden is the only game in town. The history of baseball games is a little more convoluted. There were tons of these things, but they always seemed to be an afterthought. Even sports giant EA’s baseball series, Triple Play, was considered a laughing stock by many. I should also note that I do have a little bit of genre bias here. While there are fun football games across generations of gaming (seriously, check out Super Challenge Football for the Atari 2600) I find any baseball game that came out before the 32/64-bit era to be unplayable. Yes, that includes the much-loved Ken...
Old school game reviews and discussion, from the unfamiliar and obscure to the classics you know and love.