Favorite Sports-Themed Video Games

[SabresRule]

After seeing HD's new avatar- NBA Jam was an awesome game, but I always struggled with goaltending calls- I was inspired to come up with a thread on our favorite sports-themed video games.

What are your favorites?

I have a lot of them:

EA Sports' NHL games for the Sega Genesis

The Madden Games for the Sega Genesis

Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs for the Sega Genesis

Wayne Greyzky's 3D Hockey for the Nintendo 64

The Triple Play Baseball games for the Playstation

NHL Hitz for Playstation 2

NFL Blitz

 

[HD MM]

NBA Jam, NHL Hockey (the original one in '91-'92 on Sega), Mike Tyson's Punch-Out & Joe Montana's Sports Talk Football..... all classic!

 

[Ramy]

Baseball Stars on Nintendo. I know it doesn't have any sports names or anything but that the funnest baseball game I have ever played.

 

[HD MM]

Oooh! What about Major League Baseball featuring Ken Griffey Jr. for Nintendo 64?! That was my all-time favorite Baseball game!

 

[boomer69]

Any of the Wii sports games!!!...

 

[Skyhi]

Gold: RBI Baseball - NES
Silver: Super Tecmo Bowl - NES
Bronze: Blades of Steel - NES

 

[Rey]

like HD.....NBA Jam,Mike Tyson's Punch-Out & Joe Montana's Sports Talk Football.

 

[Ramy]

Lakers vs. Celtics...............The original PC version.

 

[meStevo]

MLB The Show is the best baseball game I've ever played, though I've gotten away from playing as the entire team as I am not as familiar with the sport as I wish I was, so I do the Road to the Show and play the career of a single player.

I buy and play the hell out of every Madden, especially with the reintroduction of online franchise.

I play NCAA Football quite a bit, poses more of a challenge than Madden since you can't take a poor team and 'win it all' in a single year, you genuinely have to build franchises over multiple seasons, something you can't do in the NFL/Madden since there are fewer teams and a playoff system.

I'm shallow and old games lose their nostalgia as their graphics and rosters get dated. I don't know baseball well, so just bought MLB The Show 09 2 weeks ago for $30 even though 10 is coming out or is out this week. I know i'll be putting it down for FF13 soon, so no point paying $60 when I won't notice roster differences.

 

[AntAltMike]

Pong.

 

[Lkr]

MLB The Show has to be the best baseball game available

 

[JAG72]

Baseball Stars on Nintendo. I know it doesn't have any sports names or anything but that the funnest baseball game I have ever played.

That was a great game.

 

[Mr Tony]

Mike Tyson's Punch out....with Mike in it...not after the fact

 

[thowe21]

Gold - Super Tecmo Bowl for NES - You could never stop the slant route - Montana to Rice - TD everytime.

Silver - Original Baseball for NES - Although it wasn't endorsed by MLB at the time and had no player names, I would actually keep a score card and stat sheet when I was kid everytime I played.

Bronze - Mike Tyson's Punchout NES - I actually just got the new Wii edition and it sure has brought back some memories, funny how I can still remember some of the blocking combos 20 years later.