So I - and many other people - ended up playing MVP Baseball 2005 for several years, downloading roster updates rather than buying new games. Then the first couple editions of 2K and The Show after the death of MVP weren't nearly as good. Triple Play 96 for Sega Genesis was immeasurably better than any of the subsequent next gen games before EA changed the name to MVP and improved it significantly. I think a huge part of what made MVP Baseball so great was that its predecessor never improved and its successor was worse. It would piss him off because he usually struck out, until that time he hit a grounder to short that turned into a triple because I was in the next room. I also used to play against my dad, and I did this thing where I’d drop the controller and walk out of the room right after throwing a two-strike pitch. I made a bunch of internet friends and I remember the game very fondly, even though it was almost impossible to hit home runs with lefties. I used to play it all the time when I was 13 and had just moved to Norway (so no baseball and no friends), and I found an online forum solely dedicated to MVP ’05, where people posted player rating edits and create-a-player attribute numbers for historic players to add to your game. For some reason we always played as minor league teams and I was always the Modesto Nuts. I have nearly come to blows with my best friend because when I got down a lot I'd just intentionally hit his batters over and over again. I know all the words to a bunch of awful mid-2000s 'indie' rock songs by, like, Louis XIV because of this game.ģ. Also, if I remember correctly, Ichiro tries to run to first after every swing even though it's not a real game.Ģ. The hitting game (like a home run derby, but with weird ramps and stuff on the field as well) is fantastic. I have spent an embarrassing number of consecutive hours playing the hitting game with Ichiro or Dmitri Young. I don’t care about your MLB The Show game for PlayStation 4.ġ. Switching between rosters in the minor leagues and major leagues was easy, the load times were swift, everything was customizable, and you were probably jamming out to some hipster rock en route to the World Series. He was literally Barry Bonds without being Barry Bonds. So it gave birth to his twin who looked nothing like him, Jon Dowd. But MVP Baseball wasn’t about to go on without Barry Bonds. In previous editions of the game, players like Kevin Millar were omitted from the game if they didn’t sign the Player’s Association licensing agreement. We added LeBron James to the 29 other teams in the league in NBA 2K and simulated one season.

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