Best sports video games ever ...

You'll enjoy it. I have for the last 15 years.

 

Give me Texas on the original Ken Griffey, and I'll own every mofo here. Palmiero, Canseco and Dean Palmer were friggin beasts on that game.. and Nolan Ryan was on the bump.

Actually, it doesn't matter which team I have. The only way to beat me on that game was to hit homers, because my defense got to be absurdly good.

For the NES, my top five would be:
Super Tecmo Bowl
Bases Loaded
Ice Hockey
Double Dribble
Blades of Steel

 

I was either Texas, the White Sox, Atlanta (I know) or Toronto. And the wild card was the Cubs. You can rearrange the lineup and the positions to get every defender with at least an eight in defense. Wilkins, Sandberg were 10s, and Steve Buechele, Grace, Sosa and a couple others were 9s. They had decent speed, too.

My buddy, who I kill almost all the time, beat me three times in a row because he kept hitting home runs with Chad Curtis, Tony Phillips and Gary DiSarcina on the Angels. I was furious.

 

Watch me make Wayne's head bleed for Superfan 99 over here.

 

1. Tecmo Super Bowl
2. NBA 2K8
3. NHL 94
4. Madden 2000
5. (tie) Baseball Stars
5. (tie) Bases Loaded

NCAA Football 2006, Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain, Tecmo NBA Basketball and Madden 92 get honorable mention.

 

Blitz the league and I do enjoy to play the EA stable of sports games Madden included.

 

1. Tecmo Super Bowl
2. NCAA Football for PS2/ Bill Walsh '96 for Sega
3. Excite Bike
4. Jordan vs. Bird
5. Madden 89

 

Playstation 2: Madden 2002, NCAA Football 2003, High Heat 2003

NES: Tecmo Bowl, Pro Wrestling, Punch-Out!!, Baseball Stars, Golf, Blades of Steel

Sega: Bill Walsh College Football, NBA Live '95, Mario Andretti Racing, NHL '94

 

Blades of Steel, even if it did cause major thumb pain after about 30 minutes. It was a so good that you couldn't help but play through it.

 

Now that I think about it, I have to add Coach K College Hoops for the Sega and March Madness '98 for the original Playstation.

 

I've said it before, but . . .

Why does NHL '94 get all the love? It was the first one without fights. It yes, was the first one with one-timers. But NHL '95 had one-timers, and player trades, player creation, and players stopped being identical. Being right or left handed mattered on breakaways, it affected the angle you took.

'95 perfected the formula. Does '94 get love because it was in Swingers?

Madden and FIFA keep me coming back for more even now, but NHL '95 is the one I probably logged the most hours on.

 

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