OS Roundtable: Best 16-bit Sports Game

[KillRoy]

I'm suprised so many are picking Joe Montana 93-94 (sports talk football) I was really diappointed with those game. I thought the original Joe Montana game (simply called- Joe Montana Football) for the Genesis was a much better engine for the game of football. Sports Talk was actually a new game and completely different, I thought the original game was more fun than the entirely "NEW" follow ups. All they had to do was improve a few things and "JM 2" would have been the best football game ever made, instead they completely changed the game. But I still like the original to this day. It just plays a great game of football. I wish the games of today would take some notes from it... if you ever get a chance to play it, play it. Just be sure to play the game mode "Sega Bowl" because the final round is actually pretty hard to win.

But here are my top 5...

1. Tony La Russa Baseball '95 (Sega Genesis)
2. Final Match Tennis (Turbo Grafx16)
3. Madden '98 (Genesis)
4. Joe Montana Football (original game on the Genesis)
5. tie between NBA Action '94 and Jennifer Capriati Tennis (both games on the Genesis)

[TomServo09]

World Series Baseball and NBA Live 95 hands down. Two extremely fun and competitive games.

[JerseySuave4]

Ken Griffey Jr Baseball, Tecmo Super Bowl, NHL 94

[hitstreak13]

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Top 5 for myself
1. NHL 94
2. NBA live 95
3. Coach K BB
4. Madden 92
5. World Series baseball

Man, I must have really missed out. I have never played any of these games . I really didn't start playing video games until 2001.

[joshuar9476]

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Tecmo Super Bowl III : roster management and create a player ...

[ScoobySnax]

Coach K College basketball! Man I used to play with the O'bannon brothers at UCLA and dominate lol! Then that was the first game to really have the shattering glass in a 5 on 5 simulation. Great game!

[rodriggo]

Tecmo Super Bowl (Stats!)
Tecmo NBA Basketball (beginning of every quality NBA game thereafter)
FIFA Soccer (Absolute birth of next gen soccer video game)
Tony LaRussa Baseball (warmup reliever pip!)
NHL '94 (maybe the purest form of fun in videogame history)
Evander Holyfield Boxing (Oh the blood!)

[Money99]

NHL94. Hands-down. I liked Tecmo Bowl and Evander Holyfield boxing. Both were excellent games as well.
But NHL94 gets the nod for two reasons:
1. I'm a hockey nut.
2. I fondly remember destroying my brother in countless 7-game series'.
Good times eh Rude?

P.S. If you mention that garbage Steve Thomas goal where you ran over my goalie to score the winning goal in game 7 I'm going to dump gasoline on your lawn.

[DaReapa]

I would have to say NBA Live 95, with Coach K and Madden 94 following close behind.

[rudyjuly2]

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NHL94. Hands-down. I liked Tecmo Bowl and Evander Holyfield boxing. Both were excellent games as well.
But NHL94 gets the nod for two reasons:
1. I'm a hockey nut.
2. I fondly remember destroying my brother in countless 7-game series'.
Good times eh Rude?

P.S. If you mention that garbage Steve Thomas goal where you ran over my goalie to score the winning goal in game 7 I'm going to dump gasoline on your lawn.

Let's never forget the epic round robin tournament with about 6 guys in our basement that I won. My classic dump and grind style of play was tremendous. Chicago was a perfect fit for my style of play.

And that goal was one of the best goals ever! I never ran over the goalie either. I shot it from the blue line and hit the defeneman in the head. For some reason I think that was Domi. He wobbled and the puck trickled towards the slot where I blasted a slap shot past the goalie on the right hand side. It hit the post and trickled across the crease where I scooped it up and fired it home. Beauty!!! Here's a picture for you to help with that memory.

[LingeringRegime]

This was a great time. A time where you could just enjoy a game for what it is - a game. Not endless adjusting sliders, and longing for patches that would never come. I miss those days.

[rondoman]

Wow. Great memories.

And now I just went to Amazon and ordered a SNES and Tecmo Super Bowl 3 and NHL 94. Damn, well worth it as well now I can't wait!!!

[Bellsprout]

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My childhood was Tecmo 3. Creating players, runnng a season, awesome...

Until my cousin reset the console while I was simming. Deleted all my hard work. Lol.

That's a pretty huge deal when you're 7.

[rondoman]

Was NHL 95 better than 94 though?

[PlayaHataSupreme]

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Was NHL 95 better than 94 though?

Wondering this myself........ I got to play 95 for SNES and Genesis, and 93 on SNES, but somehow i never got my hands on 94 for either system. What's the difference between NHL 95 and the legendary NHL 94?