Top 5 Sports Video Games
Obviously, games today are much more realistic and complex than those from the Nintendo days. So these are the five games I enjoyed most at the time.
5. High Heat Baseball (Playstation 2)
They stopped making this a few years ago, but it was the baseball game of choice back in college. My roommate Blade was quite good at this game. One might say he was “born to play it”.
4. NBA Jam (Genesis)
A great heads-up game that generally came down to who was better at timing their two-handed shoves and goaltending. Much like the NBA back in the mid-90s.
3. Madden (XBox 360)
No year in particular stands out for me. I’ll go with the most recent version, mainly because of the long-needed toe-dragging ability of the Wide Receivers.
2. Ice Hockey (Nintendo)
This game witnessed one of my proudest moments: my Soviet squad throwing up a complete game shutout against Weaf. Long-awaited redemption for the 1980 Olympics.
1. Tecmo Super Bowl (Nintendo)
The first football game to compile full season stats for all players. The possibilities nearly made my head explode. I would guess that I completed about 25 full seasons of this game.
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NHLPA 93 (Sega Genesis) is at least #2. Though not wildly popular due to the fact that it is hockey, the graphics, AI, and overall playability were 2nd to none. I guess if you’re taking into account only game franchises then this won’t make it, but it will forever be my favorite game. It even showed highlights of other games during the intermissions and introduced blood to the hockey fights. You can’t even late hit in Madden put toucan break open someone’s face in NHLPA.
Note: they removed the “PA” after 93 and the game was never the same.
That is a popular choice. I didn’t play it much, but I do like the idea breaking open someone’s face.