Baseball Slugger is, as I’ve mentioned, all kinds of awesome. However, I’ve had a hankering for a fuller baseball game, where you’ve got teams and nine innings and you run around bases and all that. After some research online it seems my top pick, Konami’s Power Pros Touch, isn’t available in the UK and there’s no demo of the official MLB game, to which there has been a varied response online.

So that basically left with me two contenders – Baseball Superstar and 9 Innings: Pro Baseball, both of which have fairly generous Lite versions available. First off, I tried Baseball Superstars Lite.


It’s a fast and furious arcade baseball game, with super-deformed players, non-human super players and some RPG elements. It also runs at an incredibly fast pace. I enjoyed it very much indeed – especially the part where you create a player, play as only him and then go on dates and train up between games. Very promising indeed, though in all the time I spent playing over the weekend, which was a lot, I never worked out how to play as my super players.