OS Roundtable: Best 16-bit Sports Game

[sroz39]

...quickly had to add the Nintendo first-party games, Stanley Cup hockey and NCAA basketball for all their Mode-7 goodness lol. Not the best sims, but man what a cool view for the time.

[Crash Davis]

NBA JAM
KEN GRIFFEY JR
WORLD SERIES BASEBALL


no questions asked

[happypig00]

Re: OS Roundtable: Best 16-bit Sports Game

I like golf

[happypig00]

Re: OS Roundtable: Best 16-bit Sports Game

And you?

[KillRoy]

Golf?? PGA Pro Tour 2 (for the Genesis) was a great game.

[sharonk868]

Re: OS Roundtable: Best 16-bit Sports Game

NHL 94 wins hands down in my book. I couldn't even begin to add up the hours i've spent playing this one game.

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[devroid]

Holy crap, this is bringing back the memories. I've never been as into video games as I was when I owned my Genesis. PGA Tour was the first game I got I believe, and probably the last I ever really played with my dad (he didn't die or anything, they just got too complicated).
Tony Larussa Baseball, man alive, I think I still have the notebook I used to keep track of stats for the season I played with the Padres. Ended up being nearly identical to the real season.
Evander Holyfield boxing was a blast with friends and almost always caused real fights to break out.
Sooooo many great games and memories

[ComfortablyLomb]

Re: OS Roundtable: Best 16-bit Sports Game

I had NHL '96... that game rocked. It was easy to abuse the AI but it was FUN.

PGA Tour Golf II (Genesis) was also excellent. Still kind of tough too since mis-hits are so unforgiving.

World Series Baseball '95 felt like a massive step forward compared to the isometric baseball games that preceded it.

I didn't like them then and I still think the Griffey games are way, way, way overrated.

NBA Jam has aged... poorly.

[NoleFan]

I know this thread is SUPER old but I came upon it after a google search looking for the best 16-bit football game. Since converting to CPU vs CPU exclusively and realizing that ALL of the old SNES/Genesis games offered it, I'm trying to find the best one to play some seasons on. Those games just seem to give realistic stats and gameplay without all the bell and whistles that newer generations have added like sliders etc.