Best Sports video game athlete ever

[Ragone]

Title says it all

[Eaglesfan27]

Michael Vick in Madden 2004.

[Ragone]

hehe i included some obscure ones as well.. i just ran outta room.. i think Brad smith of ncaa 2004 is approaching top video game status..

[Honolulu_Blue]

What about Tom Chambers in one of those Lakers vs. Celtics or whatever the hell those early NBA Sega games were called. Chambers could dunk the ball from the three point line. We called it the "Ghost Slam" because Chambers would leap from the 3-point line and then hover in the air towards the basket, floating directly through anyone in his way, pumping the basketball up and down until he slammed it home. A nice move.

[Vince]

Paste was tight...but not quite up to Tecmo Bo status.

[TroyF]

Tecmo Bo was the best of all time. The very first Madden game the Eagles QB (obviously Cunningham) was unstoppable. He could run all over the field with the entire defense chasing him. Simply unstoppable.

A more obscure one for me is Stan Musial in my Earl Weaver baseball days. If he was on my team, he'd hit pretty good. If he wasn't on my team, he'd slaughter me. I couldn't get the guy out. I can't begin to tell you how many games I lost due to the guy.

[wig]

Barry Sanders in FBPro was the best ever.

THe whole game was simply toss left, toss right. No defensive player could catch him on the corner.

[wade moore]

You're missing some good ones here... Barry Sanders from Madden.. umm... 94ish was the best in my book...

[VPI97]

Originally Posted by TroyF

A more obscure one for me is Stan Musial in my Earl Weaver baseball days. If he was on my team, he'd hit pretty good. If he wasn't on my team, he'd slaughter me. I couldn't get the guy out. I can't begin to tell you how many games I lost due to the guy.

I beg to differ. The three man 'league' I was in back in the EWB days had to create the 'Ty Cobb Rule'...no bunting. If you had Cobb in your lineup, all you had to do was bunt and he had a single every at bat. It was impossible to stop.

[wig]

I remember RBI baseball where if you ever brought McGwire in to pinch hit, he hit a homerun 100% of the time.

[Fidatelo]

Might not be enough hockey fans here to remember it, but Petr Klima was amazing in the original NHL game for the Genesis ('92).

[wig]

Gretzky was pretty unbeatable, too

[Ragone]

I remember klima and gretzky.. But i picked roenick.. mainly because he had all the offensive skills.. and was like a 95+ in checking and agression as well.. so he was basically a one man army for the blackhawks

[Fiddler]

simple its bo jackson he was just too amazing in that game it defied reality

[Ragone]

Hell i remember Bo jackson in super nes play action football (the version with college teams and high schools and pros) he was the kickoff returner/rb for auburn.. you literally had to leave your kicker on the 50 yard line to stop him from returning every kickoff for a td..

[sachmo71]

The guy in the white gi in that kung fu game (forgot the name) .

Anyone who can fight that many guys without breaking a sweat has my respect, plus he can take out a charging bull with his bare hands.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Might not be enough hockey fans here to remember it, but Petr Klima was amazing in the original NHL game for the Genesis ('92).

Petr Klima rules!

Klima was excellent in the first NHL game. Great speed down the left wing!

[albionmoonlight]

If you made a guy on Baseball Stars with 15 speed, he could run around the bases and end up scoring just by beating guys trying to pick him off.

Does not really count b/c it wasn't just one player, but I felt like in a thread mentioning this many old school sports games that Baseball Stars needed to be mentioned.

Lawrence Taylor in the original (not Super) Tecmo Bowl could block every FG attempt by your opponent. Not a bad trick to have when you are playing a friend.

[Rizon]

The flashing guy from Double Dribble.

[Ragone]

or how about a catcher with above like a fielding rating of 10 would snag every foul ball that went behind the plate in baseball simulator 1.000

[MizzouRah]

Tecmo Bo!


Todd

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by TroyF

A more obscure one for me is Stan Musial in my Earl Weaver baseball days. If he was on my team, he'd hit pretty good. If he wasn't on my team, he'd slaughter me. I couldn't get the guy out. I can't begin to tell you how many games I lost due to the guy.

Musial was great, but Ty Cobb was the king of Earl Weaver.

Edit: VPI97 beat me to it.

[klayman]

Tim Flannery in 1984 Microleague Baseball (Microsports or something like that. Can't remember the name right now) An error in his data stats input gave him an extremely high doubles ratio to the point that he was almost guaranteed 2 a game. It was a nice exploit to keep hidden from your friends for a head to head advantage.

[MacroGuru]

Bo Jackson hands down.

But in the earlier version of NBA Live, I know Dan Majerle could hit A 3 pointer all the time. I remeber playing my brother in law, and he took the suns. Majerle had 75 points, all 3 pointers.

[lcjjdnh]

Although I voted for Bo Jackson, I just remembered another great player. For some reason in Tony LaRussa Baseball II, Gregg Jefferies was awesome. I'd pick him on my team in a draft everytime because he would win the Triple Crown almost every year, even if you simmed the entire season. He was good for like .350, 60 HRs and 150 RBIs in any given year.

[General Mike]

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

If you made a guy on Baseball Stars with 15 speed, he could run around the bases and end up scoring just by beating guys trying to pick him off.

Does not really count b/c it wasn't just one player, but I felt like in a thread mentioning this many old school sports games that Baseball Stars needed to be mentioned.

Lawrence Taylor in the original (not Super) Tecmo Bowl could block every FG attempt by your opponent. Not a bad trick to have when you are playing a friend.

LT could block every FG in Tecmo Super Bowl too, because he lined up right in the path of the kick, and was so fast. Just time that dive. LT gets my vote.

[Ramzavail]

Paste was great, I remember the Klima 92 NHL Hockey, I remember the Tom Chambers - not only the ghost slam, but he had the turn around hook 3 - that was also cash, but Bo was insane.

it was hard not to get a first down or score at will with Bo on your team. His speed was unbelievable.

[Ragone]

I had a hard time coming up with a basketball player for this.. mainly because Jordan was it basically.. everyone else was just gimmicky.. like chambers or thunder dan.. i think i wanna turn this into a top 25 all time list.. i knew bo would easily finish #1.. but 2-25 should be entertaining..

[Scholes]

I like the medium size guy from Nintendo Ice Hockey.

[rkmsuf]

Originally Posted by Ragone

I had a hard time coming up with a basketball player for this.. mainly because Jordan was it basically.. everyone else was just gimmicky.. like chambers or thunder dan.. i think i wanna turn this into a top 25 all time list.. i knew bo would easily finish #1.. but 2-25 should be entertaining..

Have a draft...at one time that was the rage. You start a draft and you are instantly cool.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by rkmsuf

Have a draft...at one time that was the rage. You start a draft and you are instantly cool.

Yes, but believe me, it wears off very quickly.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

What about Tom Chambers in one of those Lakers vs. Celtics or whatever the hell those early NBA Sega games were called. Chambers could dunk the ball from the three point line. We called it the "Ghost Slam" because Chambers would leap from the 3-point line and then hover in the air towards the basket, floating directly through anyone in his way, pumping the basketball up and down until he slammed it home. A nice move.

Man, that move was badass. What about the Alvin Robinson dunk from the foul line?

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Rizon

The flashing guy from Double Dribble.

We used to play the hell out of DD until someone discovered "the shot." That fade-away from the far corner of the left basket. Good for 3 points every time and you couldnt miss it.

[Honolulu Blue]

HB #2 again.

I never played any of the video games mentioned, but there are a couple of players from other games I'd like to mention for the fun of it:

1) Kal Daniels, 1987 (Strat-O-Matic Baseball) - Kal hit .370 that year against righties with power AND speed AND walks. My friends got quite tired of him beating up on them, so they either switched to a lefty (Kal hit about .190 against lefties, so I went to the bench to get Tracy Jones, who wasn't too bad that year), or intentionally walked him. Fun times.

2) Charlie Batch, 1998-99 (FOF Classic and FOF2) - According to Jim, there were three great QBs from the Class of '98 - Peyton (duh), Ryan (you snicker now, but it was understandable then), and Charlie. Charlie led me to, oh, about a dozen Front Office Bowls spread out over 50 or so sim seasons. If only he were half as good in real life...

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by Ragone

I remember klima and gretzky.. But i picked roenick.. mainly because he had all the offensive skills.. and was like a 95+ in checking and agression as well.. so he was basically a one man army for the blackhawks

You know, Roenick was good, but I think he's over-rated thanks to Swingers. I'd take Federov or Bure over him, or even Lindros and Hull for NHL 95 (when the one-timers by the center were so easy to set up). Not to mention those defencemen with 99 shots... Al Iafrate was sweet.

By the way, was there ever a more consistently over-rated sports athelete than the NHL series' Alexie Kovalev? The guy was like a 95 every year, even though he didn't really become a real-life star until years later. Neil Smith of the Rangers was the "consultant" on the ratings and just pumped up Kovalev like crazy every year.

[Chubby]

stevew - that shot was great, basically we'd have whole games just with that shot.

Manning was unstoppable in FOF2.

I can't believe TSB Jerry Rice wasn't on the list. all you had to do was run that streak with a v in it at the top of the screen and he'd catch it for a TD like every time even if it was 120 yd pass in the air

I never played as the Raiders that much so while I know how great Bo is I can't pick him. LT was simpliy nuts, insane amount of sacks and could block FGs. I HATED playing against him but playing against Bo wasn't as bad since you could just pick run plays all game and take your chances against the pass.

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

Musial was great, but Ty Cobb was the king of Earl Weaver.

Edit: VPI97 beat me to it.

Oh, I understand Cobb was the best player in the game (even far superior to Ruth)

I'm just saying that I couldn't get Musial out, especially when it mattered. The guy simply slaughtered me. Honestly, I feared Ruth, Cobb, Williams, Frank Robinson, Mays. . . all of em less than I feared Musial. I can only think of two or three times in my Earl Weaver days where I got him out in the 9th inning.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by TroyF

I'm just saying that I couldn't get Musial out, especially when it mattered. The guy simply slaughtered me. Honestly, I feared Ruth, Cobb, Williams, Frank Robinson, Mays. . . all of em less than I feared Musial. I can only think of two or three times in my Earl Weaver days where I got him out in the 9th inning.

In the early 90s I used to enter the stats for each AL team prior to each season and sim through the year as Toronto. The one guy who scared me was Randy Johnson. I think Earl Weaver Randy Johnson must have been like 18-2 lifetime against the Blue Jays. Just unhittable.

God bless Earl Weaver. I know I can't be the only guy my age who has a detailed knowledge of history's best players that mysteriously stops in 1975.

[VPI97]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

God bless Earl Weaver. I know I can't be the only guy my age who has a detailed knowledge of history's best players that mysteriously stops in 1975.

LOL

My knowledge of baseball started with EWB...I wouldn't have known about guys like Frank 'Home Run' Baker, Pie Traynor or Red Schoendienst without the game. Of course, the best thing about playing on an Amiga was having the ability to change the pronunciation of my brother's star players to 'You suck'.

[Rizon]

Originally Posted by stevew

We used to play the hell out of DD until someone discovered "the shot." That fade-away from the far corner of the left basket. Good for 3 points every time and you couldnt miss it.

Anywhere there is a mark on the court is where you can take those kinds of shots ... and it was always more accurate than dunking.

[rkmsuf]

My guy from Decathalon set some unbelievable records.

[The_herd]

Wasn't it in Earl Weaver Baseball that if you hit the foul pole, it wasn't a homerun? I remember that because I was playing against a friend and I had Ruth, who hit a monster shot down the line that hit the top of the foul pole and bounced back into play and I was thrown out at 2nd.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by VPI97

LOL

My knowledge of baseball started with EWB...I wouldn't have known about guys like Frank 'Home Run' Baker, Pie Traynor or Red Schoendienst without the game. Of course, the best thing about playing on an Amiga was having the ability to change the pronunciation of my brother's star players to 'You suck'.

That damned announcer. Do you have any idea how hard it was to get him to correctly pronounce Stottlemyer?

The worst part was that there was a mini-bug in the game, where if you typed too many letters the CPU voice would pronounce the name right the first time but then trip over subsequent attempts. Resulting in a sequence like this:

Me: (typing)
Earl voice: STOT-LEE-MEE-HER
Me: No! (typing)
Earl voice: STOT-LEE-MY-YAR
Me: No! (typing)
Earl voice: STOAT-LUH-MY-YAR
Me: Dammit! (typing)
Earl voice: STOT-LUH-MY-HER
Me: Almost there! (typing)
Earl voice: STOT-UHL-MY-HER
Me: Woot! I win! I win!
Earl voice: STOT-LE-EM-WHY-HER...
Me: Argh! (goes to gets baseball bat)

[JeeberD]

Paste was a god on Bases Loaded. Crush the hell out of the ball nearly every time.

I always found Thurman Thomas to be a great back to use in TSB. He didn't quite have the speed or moves of Bo, but they were good enough to get 300 yard games consistently. The X factor for Thermal, though, was his hands. He had the hands of Jerry Rice. You could send him downfield and he could catch those fifty yard bombs. There were many games in which Thermal had probably 600 combined total yards for me...

[Ragone]

ok.. Taking out bo jackson for the next incarnation of this poll.. cause he's clearly the all time greatest video game athelete.. who should i add? who should i omit?

[Leonidas]

What about Dr J in the old (very old) Dr J vs Larry Bird game back in the early 80's on the old Apple IIC?