The Rise and Fall of 989 Sports

[Blak_Baki_Hanma]

Those "Thunder/Lightning" hits are still fresh in my mind.

989 had lightning in a bottle... for a minute... Those were the good ol days.

[KCClassic7807]

989 Sports games, what a great altenete! I never personaly liked the games until I was older, But they were still all great games for there time. I stil do have both NFL Gameday and NCAA GameBreaker 2004!

[jyoung]

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NHL Faceoff was really good on the PS1. I liked it better than EA's NHL games at the time.

They even had Doc Emrick doing commentary!

[TheBadazz]

Gameday. The first game with a real time injury. When a runner would grab they hammie. If you speed burst too much.

[pietasterp]

Gameday shamed Madden out of the market completely when they were the first to put out a full 3D game (after EA claimed that wasn't possible on the Playstation hardware...). I think at that point, EA decided on their corporate strategy to buy out the market rather than compete on a technical level. NFL2k5 just re-affirmed that on a level playing field, Madden can't compete.

My sports gaming love has really waned in the competition-less environment...It's been forever since I even bought a sports game. Welcome to the dark ages of sports gaming...

[ajs41072]

Though I never played it, they had a soccer game too, World Tour Soccer

[Segagendude]

I still have Gameday 99 for PS1.(My ps3 is backward-compatible).

Funny to pop it in now and see an aliased,pixelated mess, but back then when I bought it, I was in love, lol.....

[Culture Rot]

a bit short

[Jordanfan23]

Yeah, I remember being very wowed by Gameday the first time I oplaye a PS1!!!! It really was a huge leap in football gaming! First time I saw NFL2K on the Dreamcast I felt the same wow, but haven't really since! And they gave us the MLB series which is incredible so thank you for that!!!!

[winningfreak]

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I had there NCAA basketball game for PS2 and hated it! I thought it was the worst game I every bought but Gameday was great.

[Culture Rot]

Would of liked to know where the company went wrong, and know the names. They nose dived bad on ps2 it ws embarrassing

[AUChase]

To this day, Gameday 98 is still my favorite sports game ever made. I too got the game at the same time as my PS1. Probably my favorite Christmas as a kid..

[TallyBoi7]

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I remember the first time I saw NFL Gameday...I think it was at EB Games or Gamestop in the mall. I had to be about 9 or 10 years...it was late 1996 or early 1997. I still was playing games on my Sega Genesis. That Christmas I got a Playstation with NFL Gameday 98...I played that game all day everyday.

[BIGROC]

Gameday was phenomenal... But to me, the best game 989 put out was Faceoff 98. Possibly the greatest hockey game of the decade. While the games we play now are incredible there will always be a fondness for the 989 brand. The hours and hours of me and my friends playing Gameday, NBA Shootout, and Faceoff will always have a place in my heart.

[tabulaRasa]

Ea made Microsoft scrap their sport brand to support the Xbox . Maybe they pushed Sony to do the same for ps2?