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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.
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.
Kept playing it for a good few years too.
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
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.
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
.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
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
Re: Your favourite sports games
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:17 pm
by kommissarboris
The Grassy knoll wrote:kommissarboris wrote:SpeedBall.
Brutal Deluxe
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.