Customer Reviews

Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Griffey Jr.

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Unlike some baseball games that let you trade any player for any player, this game matches up thier skill levels and then either approves or doesn't your trade. The three types of seasons (lond, medium, short), home run derby, and world series are all fun. A great buy.

This game is unbeleivable.It has all the stars from a few years ago.Other games dont have players like albert belle or mo vaughn,why because this game was made when they were stars.Now they are retired.This game has many features such as home run derby,season,world series,exhibition,and many more.This is my favorite game on nintendo 64.Nothin beats it.If this game does not catch your attention,then what will???

This game is one of the greatest games I have ever played. It's great because you never are too good. No matter how much you trade, or how hard you play, you never have 0 losses at the end of the season unless you are a sore looser and turn off the game right fter you win befor the game can save. It's either your bullpen, your pinch hitters, or your starting lineup. If you like baseball, this is the N64 game for you.
The only reson that this game dooesn't get 5 stars, is because sometimes your catches and hits don't always go where they should. Sometimes I don't hit the ball square on the bat, and it's a home run. The very next batter I hit the ball square on the bat, but it doesn't even go half way to the fence. It's the same with the catches. The fielder reaches out his glove to catch the ball, when the ball is about 5 feet away from it, the ball magically disappears into the fielders' glove. I hate it.

This is hands-down the best baseball game I have every played! Play control is fantastic, the stadium renderings are well done, and the teams and players are faithfully recreated (right down to that darn Yankee late-inning magic). Yes, the game is somewhat dated with 1998 rosters and stadiums, but it is nonetheless an amazing game that any baseball fan can spend hours and hours playing.

This is a great game but it lacks some of the most recent features. You can play exibition mode, season mode, world series mode and home run derby. You can only trade players in season mode. You cannot create your own, but o well. The graphics are good, but the game is old. It features 1998 rosters so it isn't up to date. Try it out, It is pretty cool.

With some higher resolution games popping up, I thought this one might be swallowed up and lost. However, that was not true. As most kids will tell you, usually indirectly, it is the game PLAYING ability that they like. This one retains that. Even for adults. The playing is realistic and allows a good amount of variability. The background noise of the crowd is low fidelity, yet it sounds very real (which it should). The announcer is clear and realistic. Generally, pleasantly surprised that it plays so well.

When Nintendo released their Nintendo 64, they took such a very long time to finally develop a baseball video game. Other systems at the time had great games that invovlve the Great American Event, but not Nintendo 64. When they finally unveiled Major League Baseball featuring Ken Griffey Jr. it took on a life of its own. Nearly a year into suspension and development in the video game industry, it became anything but oversaturated. In fact, it was worth the wait in fun.

The 1998 release consisted of all the Major League Teams at the time of the lineup. Still, the game included some brilliant graphics and a style to call their own. The graphics might seem a little flawed with their facial expressions, but the frame rate is fantastic. The game also includes a few added bits and pieces to the mane, including a home run derby, season play, World Series play, or exhibition. The game also includes vocal commentary from Ken Griffey Jr. himself, and a little bit of rapture in the mix. In exhibition mode, you can play not just against any team, but also with any stadium other than the home stadium, which makes it a little bit interesting. The game also includes a couple of special codes, including getting a home run automatically, every time Ken Griffey Jr. steps up to the plate, and even a code that gains access to special teams, including Angel Studios, the company production team that made this game.

It is just a shame that most other sports games for Nintendo 64 seemed like they were flawed from the start, but with Major League Baseball featuring Ken Griffey Jr. it is within a class all by itself. Although many people don't sell this game or Nintendo 64 anymore, it is nice that you can get this any way that you can. Still, I prefer this over any other baseball game released for the Nintendo 64.

I've gotta tell you, this game is absolutely great. The only thing(s) wrong are that you can't create a player and there are only about 6 types of batting stances, but who cares. This is a fun game and I have it and what I think is the best part is that you can play a season and this game is actually realistic. Mostly because you don't always hit a homer, there is no cursor that you would have to move either in order to hit it good. But, it's still very easy to hit the ball and you get a homer about every 15 at-bats, unless if you are someone very good, like Griffey, which there is a code in order to hit a homer with him every time. If you want to know, then when Griffey is up to bat, then you press left, left, right, right, right, left, left on the pad before the pitch, he will then point the bat up in the air and if you hit it, it's gone. The computer is very easy at first, but if you want then go to options and change it from rookie to expert. I swear, this game will keep you busy all night long. Just play it.

P.S. I'm not 12, I just accidentally clicked on this, I'm actually 14, just to let you know.

Ken Griffey Jr. baseball is a classic in my opinion. It's not the greatest but it's still a classic.

Once you start playing the game often you will be very good but if you play another person that understands the game it still would be even no matter how long you've or the other person has played it for really because the controls are so simple. I'm the kind've person that likes simulation games, realistic franchise games, and war strategy games but this game is one of the few games that I have ever been glad to have even though it's not the kind've style of a game I'd like.

This game is totally not realistic but it still has good graphics. the announcers say preety much the same thing usually and sometimes it gets to the point where you want to put tape on the umps mouth but the announcers say the thing that happened when it happened not a year later. The music isnt singing and isnt the best but it'll tide you over I guess?

Getting to the game it has world series mode, season mode, exhibition mode, and home run derby. It shows you all of them on a little ball that moves down every time you move the up button. In homerun derby you can face the computer face a friend or just play by your self. During home run derby they have much different camera views than a normal game. At exhibition if you play the computer and you've already got the hang of the game then when you do exhibition be the worst team, and let your opponent be the best team for it can be challenging and not for you to beat the computer 30-1 every time(literaly) Also put how hard the game is on the hardest it can be and if theirs any other thing you want to change to make the computer be tough than just scroll around looking for something unless of course you want to beat the computer 30-1. Obviously in exhibition you make your line-up and rotation. In the world series well its the world series. But the long anwser out of all of these will be for season which has a limited amount of games you want to play. You can either play during penat mid-season or all 162 games. As I said before that I like sim games and this game isnt like that. There is no sim option. the only option is to play. Sorry I didn't tell you this in the begginging of this but you can do two players nothing more but less. Each average 9 inning game for exhibition world series and season take about 25-35 minutes a game. Also another thing I forgot to tell you was there are errors but not to frequent. Also injuries that can go from 1 day to season ending. I think there's only one more thing that I forgot which is that I obviously own the game and have had it since 98 or 99 or... Well I've had the game for a while. There also are steals where you take up to three steps then zoom off. If you have a ten in speed and got three lead-off steps you will have a almost automatic chance of making it to second but third is really tough for any player but its possible. There's more detailed things but I remembered of yes another thing I hadn't told you yet. Which is that when you press z on a player while your arranging the line-up or rotation it will give you a rating on each player out of ten. Like there's speed, power, hitting for average, fielding,and arm. But for pitching there's pitching speed, control, and stamina. Players faces are fairly accrate but their not that great. Stadiums have all the general things that they have(green monster,color of walls etc.)I'm not sure if I told you this or not but Griffey has a special code to make him hit a home run every at bat if your bat even just tips the ball.(no clue what your supposed to do for the code.)Sorry about how the article is not organized but if you still want to find outside info and find out what I forgot to tell you. When bunt against a computer you are automaticly out at first if your speed rating is below 8. The first baseman makes errors but never drops a ball that's thrown to him(same with all players when a ball is thrown to him)Theres a circle showing where the ball is going to be hit. There's two all-star teams AL and NL. No minor leauge teams and major teams are accurate. All trades with computer are always fair. Their are free agents but they're are all the players that are bad and un wanred by a team. You can only play for one year so no carrer game.

This game is the greatest game ever made!!! It is so much fun that you can play for hours without getting bored.