Almost twenty years ago, I was introduced to the sport of hockey after my father received a copy of NHL 98 as a gift. We installed it on our PC and were presented with the classic EA SPORTS slogan as the game booted up.
Suddenly, the opening video kicked into gear. As a low-pitched voice-over engulfed the speakers, questioning whether I was “afraid of the masked man”, the sport of hockey launched into my life with a two-minute long compilation of some of the preceding years' NHL season highlights. The heavy soundtrack and skillfully edited video imprinted itself on my mind instantly. A similar thing happened with numerous EA SPORTS titles from that time period. Since then, I've had a particular appreciation for these introductory packages.
Totally agree. Some of the best were the wrestling games. Wrestlemania 2000 was a great one (no pun intended). Also, what happened to awesome sports game "endings" for when you win the championship and stuff. I believe that NHL 07(??) had an outstanding one.
Nowadays everyone has too short of an attention span, it's button through everything. If sports game makers were still doing those, no one would see it.
Last edited by baconbits11; 03-14-2016 at 03:50 PM.
I loved those intros. I always pretended they were the opening sequence for the "broadcast" of the game I was about to play for my imaginary sports world.
03-14-2016, 02:51 PM
