| 25 September 2009
Note: I'm on vacation until the end of next week, so I won't really have the time to do the regular blog postings. But to keep you all interested - and to continue to introduce any new readers to some of the Wezen-Ball archives (not to mention to re-introduce Google to the new URL of some of my more popular posts) - I've decided to fill the time by Archive Diving. I wish I could give you better, more up-to-the-minute content, but I just can't promise that. I'll try to check in. I hope you find something worth (re-)reading in the meantime.
There's not a lot to say about this one. For baseball fans of a certain age - thirty-five or younger? thirty? - the baseball video game has been around for as long as they can remember. In that time, we've seen games evolve from large blocks on the screen to highly detailed, video-like replicas. It's been amazing, really.
One of my favorite things about the old baseball video games was the eclectic mix of players who were chosen to endorse their own games. I'm not talking about the MLB 2K9 video game with Tim Lincecum on the cover. I mean the old Roger Clemens Baseball, where the game had neither the MLB or MLBPA licences, or the old Reggie Jackson Baseball, with Reggie on the cover in a generic baseball tee. Those are the games with character, the games worth remembering twenty years later - if for no other reason than the ironic nostalgia.
Earlier this summer, I took a look back at these video games and tried to create an All-Star roster from the games. I wasn't quite able to fill out the full roster, but I came pretty dang close. Go check it out: All-Star Roster of Video Game Stars.
