by T, The Angry T
Halo 3 was released this week and thousands of nerds, dorks, dweebs and douches stood outside their local Best Buy hoping to get a copy of this highly anticipated game. As I typed the sentence above I realized that I played so many video games growing up that I could probably be categorized as any of the names above. However, I played sports games about 95 percent of the time, so when I stayed home on a Friday to play Madden I was slightly cooler than the people staying home to play James Bond GoldenEye. As dorky as I may think Halo is, it brought in 125 million dollars within its first 24 hours of release, so there may be something to the game after all.
All this Halo hubbub got me contemplating the great games of all time, namely the best sports games of all-time. So, I put together my top 10 old-school sports games, complete with youtube clips. Take a walk down memory lane to before the internet and before you even fathomed there were more exciting things to do than play video games: (i.e. Porn, Bear Baiting)
10. Blades of Steel – Nintendo
9. RBI Baseball – Nintendo – Nothing better than pitching with a pre-drug Dwight Gooden. Later versions of the game included an option to “pitch high”, which resulted in Dwight throwing 137 mph fastballs.
8. Bill Walsh College Football – SEGA – This game was made in a time where video games couldn’t shell out the big bucks for in game announcers, hence, Ron Barr does the play by play and the color on this game. Don’t worry about Ron though, he was paid in Toys R’ Us Jeffrey Bucks and those five dollar coupon Mcdonalds coupon books.
(Yes that’s Bo)
7. NHL 95 – SEGA – How awesome is the guy who records the top 10 plays from their season of NHL 95? I will let you decide after you watch the video below:
6. Joe Montana Sports Talk Football – SEGA – I rode the sweet feet of Randall Cunningham and the magic of the bootleg to three straight SuperBowl championships.
5. Double Dribble – Nintendo
4. Jordan Vs. Bird – NES – This game influenced scores of white kids to work on their mid-range game rather than their dunks. If this game would have been named Tom Chambers vs. Jordan, I would be throwing down nasty stuff on the playground rather than making a living hitting 12 foot jumpers.
3. California Games – NES – What pot-smoking California hippie could have possibly thought that this would be an entertaining and exciting game? I don’t know, but I want to meet him and shake his hand and buy with a twenty sack. If you can name another game where you can do mildly entertaining real life activities like hackysack and throw a Frisbee, I will take this off my list. Until then it remains at #3.
2. Mike Tyson Punch Out – Nintendo – It is all about the pink jumpsuit.
1. Tecmo SuperBowl – Nintendo – This was a no-brainer for me. I always played with the Lions, even though they were terrible (eerily similar to real life). I wasn’t nearly as good as these guys below however, which makes me feel inadequate. (More inadequate I should say)
(Originally published 9/26)
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