Super Baseball Simulator 1 on SNES is one of those weird, charming sports games that shouldn’t work but totally does. Yeah, it’s got your standard baseball mechanics—pitching, batting, stealing bases—but then it throws in these ridiculous special moves that feel straight out of an anime. Pitchers can hurl flaming fastballs, batters summon lightning swings, and suddenly you’re not just playing baseball, you’re in some over-the-top showdown.

The first time I played, I picked the default team and got absolutely wrecked by the AI’s curveball that split into three mid-air. Took me a few innings to realize you can counter that nonsense with your own power-ups. The pixel art’s got that classic SNES vibe—bright colors, chunky sprites—and the crack of the bat still sounds satisfying decades later.

It’s not the deepest baseball sim out there, but the sheer chaos of those special moves makes every game unpredictable. Just don’t expect realism when your shortstop can teleport to catch fly balls.