- Year: 2000
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Developer: Treyarch Invention, LLC
- Theme: Baseball
Triple Play 2001 is what I categorize as a fantasy baseball game. These are games that resemble baseball only loosely and place great emphasis on things that have nothing to do with the real life sport. Developers of such titles believe the premise that baseball as presented on the PC is an inherently boring game. So they devote a lot of time to adding "fun" by introducing fantasy elements. These include power-ups and other such arcade trappings to generate new twists on what (the developers believe) can be very long baseball games and seasons. The primary concern isn’t baseball accuracy. Games must be played very quickly. The general idea behind everything is providing a game that a player can sit down and play without worrying about all of the precision and accuracy of baseball simulations.