Published by Epyx and developed by Quest Inc., The World’s Greatest Baseball Game (1984) combines both arcade action and team management in a baseball simulation. Featuring 25 classic teams—including All-Star, World Series, and legendary lineups—players can select rosters based on individual stats like batting average, ERA, or fielding percentage. The game allows for roster changes, player substitutions, and trades mid-season. Two distinct gameplay modes are offered. In Statistical Mode, players serve as team managers, issuing strategic commands such as bunting, stealing bases, and changing the batting order. In Interactive Mode, players take control of the action on the field—pitching, batting, and fielding in real time. The game supports both single-player and two-player modes and features an isometric field view that shows the batter on the left and the outfield on the right. Praised for its hybrid approach to simulation and action gameplay, the game also tracked stats across matches. Though later overshadowed by more advanced baseball sims, it remains a nostalgic favorite and a formative step in the evolution of sports gaming.

There are decent baseball games, good baseball games, and sometimes even great baseball games.  But the GREATEST?  Epyx made it.  No game before or since has ever been the World’s Greatest Baseball game.  Experts might say it was the 1956 World Series Game 5, where Don Larsen pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers.  It wasn’t just a no-hitter, but a completely perfect game…on the biggest stage in the world.  Do you know how rare that is?  Almost as rare as us creating the World’s Greatest Baseball Game Software Program. It was so rare, that we’re going to let it stand alone in history as that perfect piece of software.  The world’s not ready for a revival of something so perfectly balanced between managerial and play elements. For the record, we’re also fans of the 1960 World Series Game 7 with Pittsburgh Pirates Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run (the greatest home run ever), Game 6 of the 1986 Series when the Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox, and the entire 1991 World Series.