Game Gear - The Majors Pro Baseball

Format
Game Gear
Publisher
Sega
Developer
Sega
Release date
1992
Genre
Sports

The Majors Pro Baseball

By David Rasmussen
21st Mar 08

Once again we’re back to Game Gear reviews, this week’s theme being entirely set on sports or gambling related things (I.e. everything you can do or bet on during your next trip to Vegas or some other gambling mecca which believes in betting on American sports (like Baseball or Sports Trivia Football). This week’s shout out goes to Doug (which is often as he supplies 19 out of the first 25 reviews we’re going through these first weeks of Game Gear reviews!)

Think about it! Just think about it! Way back when this game released nobody was talking about their stars of the sport of baseball doping up (allegedly) on steroids to become beefier players and, thus, more popular to their fans because of it. Either it wasn’t going on, or we didn’t care about it going on way back then.

Thankfully we have politicians who ready to stand up against NBL steroid doping!
Now when you’re asked who was brave enough to stand up to them.
Fame addicted (allegedly) steroid doping (allegedy) players attempting to please their fans by sucking up as much steroids as possible (allegedly) to become better players (allegedly).
You can proudly say you know who stood up to them.
Power addicted (allegedly) soft money/earmarks doping (allegedly) politicians attempting to please their state’s voters by sucking up as much of your tax money as possible (allegedly) to become better politicians (allegedly) by getting as many projects requiring money (a balancing act of excellent, good, fair and geez who wanted this funded projects).

So, when their done investigating Bball players roid’ addiction, will the NBL open investigations outing “earmark rage” money doping politicians and their addictions?
Yeah. Perfect people to investigate the addicted, mainly the addicted. Brilliant!!
(Politicans however can at least go on 25% proof detoxification and just get the stupid money spending cured out of them).

But let’s forget all about roid poppers and tax money poppers. We’re talking baseball!
And wouldn’t you know it, we’re reviewing THREE -- TWO baseball games.
World Series Baseball counts as one since it’s two years of the same franchise which really didn’t change at all (except for important control issues which improved the score between the two) between it’s 1993 and 1995 iterations.

But we’re not talking about World Series Baseball, this is The Majors Pro Baseball.
It has the same season play Pennant Race option, and player options like World Series Baseball, but that is where the comparison ends.

For the most part the two games have similar gameplay, and seem interchangeable since they are so similar, but in fact they are not similar. Player response to a hit is the worst in this game. No reaction whatsoever to even a simple pop fly, which means you’ll have to do all the running about just to catch the ball (which shouldn’t be so if the game had a better AI for your fellow players, which is present in the 1995 version of World Series Baseball). If the game’s controls was tighter or less prone to you making mistakes while retrieving the ball, then this wouldn’t be a problem… not so. Of course this doesn’t mean the AI for the rival team is as shoddy, as all the good AI seems to have gone to the rival team (which means often they have an advantage over you).

It’s mostly like World Series Baseball, but where it really counts the two games are most different. And that is why The Majors Pro Baseball only fields two hits over the fence out of 5. Sorry, guys, but that’s the game.

-- David Rasmussen 21st Mar 08

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