Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 3 is that classic SNES baseball game where everything just feels right—crisp pitching, satisfying hits, and those little player animations that make you grin. It’s basically the same tight gameplay as the first two, but they threw in Success Mode this time, which is a weirdly addictive career sim where you train a rookie from scratch. I spent way too many afternoons trying to turn some scrawny benchwarmer into a home-run machine, only to have him flame out in the minors. Typical.

If you’ve played the others, you know what to expect: fast, arcade-style baseball with just enough depth to keep you hooked. The pixel art’s charming, the controls are snappy, and yeah, it’s in Japanese, but you’ll figure it out after a few innings. Still holds up better than most modern baseball games, honestly.