Definitely the most underrated. Super Sluggers was my childhood.

Honestly these games aged so well I still play them all the time

I absolutely love Mario Super Sluggers. It was my childhood! The story mode and recruiting lots of characters in it is why I love the game so much. Plus it’s huge cast of characters that’s literally the largest of any Mario game not counting MK Tour. So cool! I never actually played the GameCube one. Same for strikers as well actually.

Mario Baseball has the most fire rosters.

18:26 bro love that loading screen 💀

Super Sluggers was one of the first games I ever played but one day the disc got so messed up that we weren’t able to get it working again. Years later we got the game again where I 100% completed it. Because of this story I always liked sluggers more even after I got my GameCube and the original game mainly because I couldn’t get use to the controls and I thought the story mode was kinda short.

One thing I feel like people always forget in super sluggers (although it makes sense since it's hidden in the midgame menu options) is that while motion controls are the default, you can play the game with sideways Wii remote (it's shown in page 6 of the manual, had to download the pdf from Nintendo just to make sure I wasn't misremembering) and it works almost exactly like the first game, but on a Wii remote, no motion controls included and I find it a lot more fun that way myself

Mario Baseball Super Sluggers was 1 of my favorite Wii Games.

Want to throw out there, Mario Superstar baseball actually has a very active / thriving online and competitive community. They just had their biggest IRL tournament with around 50 entrants from across the US hosted in Long Island. They even have their own Dolphin client custom made for online play. It's a super cool community, I highly recommend checking them out.

Mario Superstar Baseball is so sick, there's been a competitive community growing for it over the last couple of years. There was actually an offline tournament for it a couple of days ago! I recommend checking out Dinger City if you are interested in getting into competitive Mario Baseball

You forgot to mention the best part of Mario Superstar Baseball - the Star Missions in Challenge Mode :(
They make the game stand out that much over its sequel (which is a really good game too)
of course, there are a few missions like Baby Mario's "Catch a Booted Ball" BS that are painful and obnoxious if you're like me and try to 100% the game, but overall it's still such a nice touch that each character has unique missions to make them a star character.

Loved playing Super Sluggers as a kid. I would play on the easiest difficulty sometimes and hit like 50 home runs lol.

18:59 What do you mean "Whoever this is"? That's Tiny Kong.

Sluggers has what I would perhaps say would be the greatest roster of characters thanks to just how many characters are needed for the teams, and I think the other sports games and Mario Kart 9 (If that ever happens) should take inspiration from Mario Baseball to make their rosters better.

Since modern Nintendo can't seem to get their sports games right, I'd rather see a remake or HD port of these games on Switch than a sequel.

Mario Super Sluggers at least remembered King K. Rool exists before Smash Ultimate happened.

14:43  Sounds like intro to Queen's  "We Will Rock You"!

Awesome vid as always Brad. By chance, were you aware of the online baseball cards you could collect as part of Mario Super Sluggers' marketing campaign?

If you went to kids sites such as Nickelodeon, Teletoon, YTV, Disney Channel, etc. back in 2008, the advertisement banners would show baseball card collectibles for every character in Super Sluggers' roster. The cool thing is that if you clicked on the ad, it would bring you to Super Sluggers' site where you would add that card to your collection, and it kept track of how many card you picked up through visiting different sites. Some cards were more rare than others (King K. Rool was almost impossible to find) as ads on sites would load different character baseball cards every time you refreshed a page (with characters liek Mario appearing more than others).

It's still one of the coolest marketing campaigns I've seen for a game, and I hope it returns when a Mario baseball game arrives on the Switch. - Kyle

Mario Superstar Baseball is so nostalgic for me. I remember getting it for my gamecube when I was 8

You don’t need motion controls for super sluggers if you just hold the wii remote sideways. It plays even more like the original.