Best Baseball Game

In real life when I played baseball I was a good hitter but atrocious fielder.  In the video games I couldn't hit a baseball to save my life yet play excellent defense.  So I lose games 1-0, 2-0, and so on as I can't ever get a guy to score.  

One I played recently that was kind of fun (don't know if it's over in England yet) is the Bigs.  I played it on Xbox 360, though, not PSP, but it was a lot of fun for an arcade version of baseball.

I love video games, and I love baseball, but up until recently, I've never been able to combine the two very much.  I love watching baseball, but some of the hardcore, full-on simulation games eventually just drive me mad.  Or I get so into it that I start to obsess, and it drives my wife mad.  Either way, not good.

I've got a copy of MLB '06: The Show that I picked up a while ago for pretty cheap, and that keeps me entertained, but what I really want to pick up is The Bigs.  Very arcade-style, which I enjoy.  It's kind of the baseball version of NBA Jams, which was one of the staples of my high school experience.

...is the best one I have found lately. I like the new Road To The Show game mode, and am having a great time as 3b for The Diamondbacks. The best part of the game, is that each game is simmed to your player's next at bat or play in the field, so the games are a lot quicker than they are in other modes.

The only complaints I have about the game are: The music on menu screens is un-fucking-bearably bad, and Bob Melvin really is a moron in the game. I'm just past the all star break in my 3rd year, and only have 220 something at bats, despite a .528/43/107 line.

Really quality game, though, and I think I could spend a few hours playing it every day, even if I had something better to do.

Sounds like an awesome mode to me, I have a 360 but baseball games are hard to find over here. The people that made out of the park made a game called inside the park baseball which allows you to create a player and track his career from draft day to retirement. It's a bit old now but you can still download the demo for free.

The whole reason i play OOTP is the speed, you can have a real dynasty going on and its fun managing the ballclub from single A to the bigs.

I don't have anything later than an N64, and the one baseball game I had on my Sega Genesis completely blows. BUT! One of my favorite games of all time has to be Nintendo's Baseball Simulator 1000. It's animated and unlifelike, and very cute. Everyone moves in sync. Some of the teams (the only teams worth playing) have special powers. It's awesome. :) I still play it now and then with my roommate and kick her butt. (Hey, she volunteers for it...)

Yeah, on the theme of Nintendo I forgot to mention Wii baseball which is quite fun, swinging aimlessly at a curve :D

That's the only one I've ever got into, and boy, did I get into it. That was probably around 1994 or so, on my housemate's computer. It was awesome, and I dread to think the hours I wasted, with my hand-picked team, all named after actresses I fancied... [I still remember the time Phoebe Cates hit four homers in a game. :-)]

Since then, I just haven't had the time to get into it. I wouldn't mind, and Mrs. SnakePit has hinted at Christmas gifts in this line, but the reality is that it either wouldn't get used, or worse, would get used, and I'd end up functioning on three hours of sleep per night, as I tried to cram everything in. But maybe I'll try and download EWB II, just for nostalgia's sake. If you don't hear from me again, that'll be why!

I'm a big fan of MLB 06: The Show (although I enjoyed MVP Baseball before it lost access to the license). Generally I run a couple seasons a year: one with the most up-to-date Arizona roster possible, and another with a roster consisting solely of myself, roommates, historical figures (Ghandi is a left-handed speedster at second base, for example) and other oddities.

Keeps me amused throughout the summer whenever I have some time off.

Has been taken over by sports interactive, who produce the vastly succesful Football Manager (formerly known as Championship Manager) football(soccer) management games.

I've got 2007 and it's awesome, you can either run a fictional universe and customise all the rules under the sun (waivers, and all the financial stuff) or just download an unofficial MLB roster set and run with it.

Pretty intense or light depending on what you fancy. Managing the Sidewinders is pretty fun :)