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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
KCF0107 01/17/21 4:26:11 PM #75:	#98 Backyard Baseball 2001 (PC, 2000) I owned A LOT of the Backyard sports titles growing up, and I liked pretty much all of them, but Baseball 2001 rose above them all. Between my love of baseball, their inclusion of some of my favorite MLB players (Frank Thomas and Randy Johnson), the variety of baseball fields with unique features, and the zaniness of the franchise, there wasn't any doubt that I would become addicted to it. Made for children, it was of course quite accessible. You could leave a game and pick up where you left off at any point. There were options to show where the ball was landing if you were batting, you could have players auto-hit if you selected a location using the bat cursor, pitching showed you the range where a ball would land before you committed to it, and much more. I'm sure if I played now, it would be a little boring as innings would never end if I was batting, and I would send the opposing team down 1-2-3 if I was pitching, but when I was a kid, I lived in the moment and didn't care about the score so much. While I made like 30 different teams, my main one was of course the White Sox. For some reason, I made my home field Tin Can Alley, whose main feature is that it is incredibly hard to hit an outside-the-park home run. I can actually remember some of my lineup: Dante Robinson Pablo Sanchez Randy Johnson Frank Thomas Ken Griffey Jr. Larry Walker Maybe the rest will come back to me some day. Anyway, there wasn't much of a payoff to the main season mode. I never particular felt like I accomplished something great by winning the World Series, or whatever they called it. It probably didn't help that the stadium that they held it in was nothing special. However, I didn't need to be reward that way. I just loved playing baseball games, and this delivered. I do have one regret with this game, and it is that I don't think that I ever ended up playing its online mode (we didn't have internet until a few years later). --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu <cite>KCF0107 posted [p:949610696] in The Board ... [t:79241274]...</cite> <quote>#98 Backyard Baseball 2001 (PC, 2000) I owned A LOT of the Backyard sports titles growing up, and I liked pretty much all of them, but Baseball 2001 rose above them all. Between my love of baseball, their inclusion of some of my favorite MLB players (Frank Thomas and Randy Johnson), the variety of baseball fields with unique features, and the zaniness of the franchise, there wasn't any doubt that I would become addicted to it. Made for children, it was of course quite accessible. You could leave a game and pick up where you left off at any point. There were options to show where the ball was landing if you were batting, you could have players auto-hit if you selected a location using the bat cursor, pitching showed you the range where a ball would land before you committed to it, and much more. I'm sure if I played now, it would be a little boring as innings would never end if I was batting, and I would send the opposing team down 1-2-3 if I was pitching, but when I was a kid, I lived in the moment and didn't care about the score so much. While I made like 30 different teams, my main one was of course the White Sox. For some reason, I made my home field Tin Can Alley, whose main feature is that it is incredibly hard to hit an outside-the-park home run. I can actually remember some of my lineup: Dante Robinson Pablo Sanchez Randy Johnson Frank Thomas Ken Griffey Jr. Larry Walker Maybe the rest will come back to me some day. Anyway, there wasn't much of a payoff to the main season mode. I never particular felt like I accomplished something great by winning the World Series, or whatever they called it. It probably didn't help that the stadium that they held it in was nothing special. However, I didn't need to be reward that way. I just loved playing baseball games, and this delivered. I do have one regret with this game, and it is that I don't think that I ever ended up playing its online mode (we didn't have internet until a few years later). --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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