Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball

Name: Roger Clemens’ MVP baseball
System: Sega Genesis
Developer: Sculptured Software, Inc
Publisher: Flying Edge
Release Date: 1992
Genre: Sports

Roger Clemens’ Baseball is pretty unknown to the best of my knowledge and it is pretty clear why. It’s not a particularly good game, or a fun one for that matter. There are only four pitch options: fastball, changeup, pitch that curves to the right and one that curves to the left. Despite all that, there is a player named C. Burger. When I was little I always assumed his first name was Cheese. He was a pretty damn good hitter, too. Anyway, the game is sweet if only because it its own major leagues with made up teams with funny nicknames (The New York team is the “Rebels” for some reason). Oh, and Roger Clemens’ has a ridiculous ERA of 0.0321 or at least close to that. Seriously, even he never used that many steroids.

My girlfriend and I decided to play… okay, maybe “dragged her into it” is a better description, but she enjoyed it, I think, at least somewhat. At least as much as I did. I mean, it is a boring game, but it’s so bad that it is pretty amusing. Except after playing nine innings like we did… especially when the score was 29-2. But at least I got to shell Roger Clemens, though I was a bit frustrated I didn’t hit any homers. It was probably because the Minnesota Hounds suck ass.

Anyway, the mechanics are pretty bad. Pitching is easy because you can control the ball up to the point it hits the catchers glove, so it’s simple to fake out the batter. One nice thing is that the pitchers tire as they throw, so they lose some heat on their fastballs. The batting is okay, I guess, though it’s completely two dimensional. But the fielding, my god is the fielding awful. First off, the players are slow as molasses and can’t move diagonally. A thrown ball also moves about as slow as you’d expect it to if a tractor beam had it, luckily the base runners are almost as slow.

The graphics are below average, even for a genesis game. There just isn’t any character to them. The sound is annoying, though the “foul” call sort of amuses me for some reason. The music isn’t very good and there isn’t really much else as far as sounds go.

All in all, it’s a pretty crappy game, but fun for a few innings and the names are worth a chuckle or two. One of my players was named “S. Pitts.”

Here are the teams from the game:

American West
Seattle Pioneers
Kansas City Kings
Minnesota Hounds
Chicago Red Birds
Texas Cowboys
Oakland Cobras
California Waves

American East
Toronto Bears
Detroit Dawgs
New York Rebels
Baltimore Eagles
Cleveland Tomahawks
Milwaukee Marshalls
Boston Crabs

National West
Atlanta Condors
San Francisco Quakes
Houston Mustangs
Cincinnati Big Cats
Los Angeles Thrashers
San Diego Suns

National East
Philadelphia Generals
Montreal Lumberjacks
St. Louis Dragons
Chicago Swords
Pittsburgh Black Cats
New York Buffalos

Score: 4/10