Bottom of the 9th feels like an early third party N64 game. It looks and feels incredibly basic. The N64 has had an ungodly amount of baseball games by this point, yet Bottom of the 9th feels like it should have been the very first one. Even then, it would have been “it’s poor, but it’s the only choice at the moment” and nothing special. What’s even stranger is that Konami have the Power Pros series, so why is this do poorly made?

The only thing it does have that other baseball games don’t have (other than the Japan-only ones) is the scenario mode, which lets you play with specific teams in the middle of matches. But with the typical cheating CPU that catches every ball you hit and gets home runs easily, you’re going to lose anyway. The options menu did have a “Slaughter” toggle, but that doesn’t seem to let you kill other players, so that was another disappointment.

Poor

Of course, Konami have shown in the past that they can quite happily surpass a big name licence with a mixture of made-up names and stunning realism, but then the staggering ISS series and the painfully average Bottom of the Ninth aren’t quite in the same league. Where one took console football into a new age, the other takes baseball back down a level.

Tim Weaver, N64 Magazine #30. Review Score: 44%

Remake or Remaster?

There are better baseball games to focus on.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to play Bottom of the Ninth