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Your favourite sports games

Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:25 pm
by Spindash
Post links to your favourite retro sports games. :wub:

Mega Drive - Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars



Sensible Soccer (I always liked this version the most)



Brian Lara Cricket



Pete Sampras Tennis '96


Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:15 pm
by qupe
For me 3 immediately spring to mind

Athlete Kings (Sega Saturn) - Still own this and it was one of my most played multi-player games. Some great games with my brother and his mates. Same with Winter Heat too.






Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga)


Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:57 am
by Lotus
World Cup Italia '90.

There were probably better football games, but I was 5 when I first played this, so didn't care. Used to love making the game end in a draw just so I could do the penalty shoot-outs. :lol:

Kept playing it for a good few years too. :wub:

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:18 pm
by Uppa
A dubious nominee on my behalf, but I can't help but wax lyrical about Wave Race 64, which epitomises jet-ski sports games for me.

My abiding memory is undoubtedly the nautical music, chiefly the ditty that presaged a race and the configuration music. Totaka's score so eloquently describes, to me, the serenity of the beaches and fruit-juice coloured waters. I interpret from the music a potent feeling of the lapping waters and sea-side heat, given that much of the instrumentation seems to convey the sort of impression you get from sun rays and the like: the twinkles of light are expressed so well in the musical chimes.

Elsewhere, a feeling for the rumble of the vehicles is expressed well in the Machine Select music; and it's hard to forget the mystical pipes of Misty Lake.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:08 pm
by Catheter Rising
Geoff Crammonds F1GP. Loved this game, despite never really watching F1. I think I got it as a free gift for subscribing to PC Zone. Ah, so much nostalgia in one thread - the game, the magazine and the free gift.


Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:24 pm
by Rapidly-Greying
My overall favourites are the everybody's golf series and pro evo up until about 2004 I think,when it started to go downhill.

Honourable mentions in to Leaderboard, Speedball 2,Sensible soccer, Track n field,Jimmy Whites snooker and monkey target :-)

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:51 am
by IGM
Steve Davis Snooker on the Spectrum:



Super Soccer on the SNES:



Golf on the Gameboy:



Barry McGuigan's Boxing on the Spectrum:



All amazing games. More I can't be bothered to find clips of are Pole Position and that motorbike game where you're basically a green smudge racing other blue/black smudges on the Spectrum. And of course, Super Tennis :wub:

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:26 pm
by NickSCFC



Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:17 pm
by Pattybean
ISS pro 98 on the N64 was my favorite football game ever.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:40 pm
by Lagamorph
Japan World Cup 3



The only sports game that's any good.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:52 am
by Ecno
Insert 10p to continue wrote:ISS pro 98 on the N64 was my favorite football game ever.


This.

World League was imense. Shame I never had a controller pack and all my Strikes kept getting injured.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:09 pm
by NickSCFC
Insert 10p to continue wrote:ISS pro 98 on the N64 was my favorite football game ever.


ISS Pro 98 was only on PS, you're thinking of the inferior ISS 98.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:33 am
by PuppetBoy
ISS 2000 on the N64 was the best ISS game though. I've waxed lyrical about its wonderful, bafflingly insane RPG career mode far too many times on this forum. :wub:

Disclaimer: I have no idea if it has an equivalent on the PlayStation, and whether said equivalent has the career mode.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:37 pm
by The Grassy knoll
I really liked hockey games when I was a kid. Loved the occasional punch up and was always trying to start a fight rather than trying to score 8-) .Haven't played one for about 10yrs though.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:54 pm
by kazanova_Frankenstein
IGM wrote:

Barry McGuigan's Boxing on the Spectrum:



All amazing games. More I can't be bothered to find clips of are Pole Position and that motorbike game where you're basically a green smudge racing other blue/black smudges on the Spectrum. And of course, Super Tennis :wub:


Great call with this one. I can't believe how quickly the music came back to me after all these years, especially the between rounds jingle that merged seamlessly with the bell ringing for the next round.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:22 am
by ~Earl Grey~
On the SNES, PGA Tour 93, NHLPA 93, Super Tennis, Sensible Soccer.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:03 pm
by kommissarboris
SpeedBall.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:08 am
by The Grassy knoll
kommissarboris wrote:SpeedBall.


Brutal Deluxe 8-)

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:17 pm
by kommissarboris
The Grassy knoll wrote:
kommissarboris wrote:SpeedBall.


Brutal Deluxe 8-)


absofuckinglutely.

Re: Your favourite sports games

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:15 pm
by ~Earl Grey~
IGM wrote:Steve Davis Snooker on the Spectrum:


The good old Spectrum and its limited video memory! Love how the balls keep changing colour.