Nostalgia is a business that always works and that, 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’s more,who would not want to go back in time to treat themselves to one of those mythical Neo Geo from SNK that flooded the arcades of the time? Now, someone has thought that it is a good idea to relaunch 2020 Super Baseball to soothe that ailment.
A game of baseball with tradition
There was a time when consoles came to market with a catalog of games that practically all belonged to the same hardware developer. In the case of Neo Geo, something like this happened, it is true that third-party companies appeared within the arcade ecosystem that they developed for it, but the bulk was practically all owned by SNK. So to please the largest number of users created games of different themes and development, which included sports cartridges for soccer, golf, beach volleyball and… of course, baseball.
Soccer Brawl, Neo Turf Masters, windjammers and of course this 2020 Super Baseball which was launched for the first time in 1991, that is, practically the year in which the explosion of consoles began in Spain. So someone thought that it would be a good idea to revive it so that those who in the 90s were dying to have a Neo Geo, relive the experience almost 32 years later. Are you one of them or were you lucky enough to buy one of those SNK machines?
So things, 2020 Super Baseball has become a full-fledged release for iPhone and iPad, At the moment, where it has just arrived, tracing each of the elements that made this game a reference title to the pixel. Of course, it will not be free and its price is 4.99 euros and it will avoid advertising, videos and interruptions.
A baseball of the future
2020 Super Baseball is a sports game that follows the same conceptual line of the legendary Soccer Brawl, that invited us to experience a sport with a futuristic format where there is no mercy with the adversary. In this case they took the rules of American baseball and put them on the screen applying a layer of science fiction quite similar.
In essence, it is a fast 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 matches where hitters and pitchers have very advanced tricks to get away with it. You know, with the bat in your hands you have three strikes Before finishing your sleeve, you’ll be eliminated and only by hitting the ball will you be able to run to occupy one of the three bases on the field.
The player who is able to run the three bases and return to the starting point will score a run (homerun) for your team. Something that seems easy but in this 2020 Super Baseball is complicated by the number of tricks (some really dirty) that can be used in a 2020 future that, it must be said, seemed far, far away in 1991. Now, looking at SNK’s game again, it’s clear that they chose that year of the name on the cartridge lightly and a 2100 or a 2200 would have been better, don’t you think?
