Nostalgia is a business that still works and which, moreover, remains valid for many years to come. And when it comes to video games, who doesn’t miss the good old days of 8-bit and 16-bit consoles from the 90s? It is more,Who wouldn’t want to go back in time to buy one of these legendary Neo Geo from SNK? who flooded the arcades of the time? Now someone thought it was a good idea to raise Great Baseball 2020 to alleviate this evil.
A baseball game with tradition
There was a time when consoles came to market with a catalog of games that were virtually all owned by the same hardware developer. In the case of Neo Geo, something like this happened, it is true that third-party companies appeared in the arcade ecosystem that they developed for it, but most of it was practically owned by SNK. So to please the greatest number of users created games of different themes and development,
soccer brawl, Neo Turf Masters, windbreaker and of course this Great Baseball 2020 which was first launched in 1991, that is, practically the year in which the explosion of consoles began in Europe. So someone thought it would be a good idea to revive it so that those who in the 90s were dying to have a Neo Geo, reliving the experience nearly 32 years later. Are you one of them or have you been lucky enough to buy one of these SNK machines?
So things, Great Baseball 2020 became a full-fledged version for iPhone and iPad, As it just arrived, tracing each of the elements that made this game a pixel-perfect benchmark title. Of course it will not be free and its price is 4.99 dollars and it will avoid advertising, videos and interruptions.
A baseball from the future
Great Baseball 2020 is a sports game that follows the same conceptual line of the legendary soccer brawl, which invited us to experience a sport in a futuristic format where the opponent is merciless. In this case, they took the rules of American baseball and put them on screen apply a sci-fi layer quite similar.
It is essentially a fast-paced game, originally designed for arcade machines, which means that it does not beat around the bush and the action starts from the first moment and invites us to play to games where batters and pitchers have very advanced tricks
The player who is able to run all three bases and return to the starting point will score a point (home run) for your team. Something that seems easy but in this Great Baseball 2020 is complicated by the number of tricks (some really dirty) that can be used in a future 2020 which, it must be said, seemed far, far away in 1991. Now, looking back at SNK’s game, it’s clear that they chose that year of the name on the cartridge slightly and a 2100 or a 2200 would have been better, don’t you think?
