The 25 Best Sports Games of Your Childhood

A while back, we did a post on the best sports video games for your childhood.  I think it’s time to expand on that post with a bunch of games that I missed. For your viewing pleasure, here is a re-cap of that post:

10. Blades of Steel – Nintendo

9. RBI Baseball – Nintendo – Nothing better than pitching with a pre-drug Dwight Gooden. Later versions of the game included an option to “pitch high”, which resulted in Dwight throwing 137 mph fastballs.

8. Bill Walsh College Football – SEGA – This game was made in a time where video games couldn’t shell out the big bucks for in game announcers, hence, Ron Barr does the play by play and the color on this game. Don’t worry about Ron though, he was paid in Toys R’ Us Jeffrey Bucks and those five dollar coupon Mcdonalds coupon books.

(Yes that’s Bo)

7. NHL 95 – SEGA – How awesome is the guy who records the top 10 plays from their season of NHL 95? I will let you decide after you watch the video below:

6. Joe Montana Sports Talk Football – SEGA – I rode the sweet feet of Randall Cunningham and the magic of the bootleg to three straight SuperBowl championships.

5. Double Dribble – Nintendo

4. Jordan Vs. Bird – NES – This game influenced scores of white kids to work on their mid-range game rather than their dunks. If this game would have been named Tom Chambers vs. Jordan, I would be throwing down nasty stuff on the playground rather than making a living hitting 12 foot jumpers.

3. California Games – NES – What pot-smoking California hippie could have possibly thought that this would be an entertaining and exciting game? I don’t know, but I want to meet him and shake his hand and buy with a twenty sack. If you can name another game where you can do mildly entertaining real life activities like hackysack and throw a Frisbee, I will take this off my list. Until then it remains at #3.

2. Mike Tyson Punch Out – Nintendo – It is all about the pink jumpsuit.

1. Tecmo SuperBowl – Nintendo – This was a no-brainer for me. I always played with the Lions, even though they were terrible (eerily similar to real life). I wasn’t nearly as good as these guys below however, which makes me feel inadequate. (More inadequate I should say)

While these are certainly some solid games, I missed a bunch of great ones, which pissed me off so much that I am going to try to make it up for you below:

15. DuckHunt – NES - That dog is still an asshole.

Look what happens after you beat all 99 levels:

I’ve wanted to do this for years:

14. Skate or Die – NES

13. WWF Wrestlemania – NES - I would love to beat the hell out of the Honky Tonk Man right now, I don’t even care if he’s 70, or even still alive.

12. Basewars – NES – At the time this game was created we believed that robots would soon be doing all of our manual labor, along with satisfying our partners sexually. This game was the natural, mildly entertaining end result of that kind of thinking.

11. Super-Spike Volleyball – NES

10. Evander Holyfield: Real Deal Boxing

9. Town & Country Surfing – NES – I don’t why the gorilla is surfing.  I don’t know how they taught the gorilla to surf in the first place.  I do know that I love this game.

8. Super Wrestle Mania – SNES – I would also like to beat the hell out of Earthquake, but I’m fairly sure he is actually deceased.

7. World Cup – NES – This game stoked the fires of American passion for the game of soccer.  Without this game I would have never have developed a casual interest for soccer that causes me to watch it at least two times every year in non-World Cup years.

6. PGA Tour Golf II – Sega Genesis – Craig Stadler could only look this good in plaid golf pants in the digital world.

5. NBA Jam TE – SNES

4. Arch RIvals – NES – The graphics were shitty, the concept was sort of weird, but I will buy and love absolutely anything sponsored by British Knights.

3. Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball – SNES

2. Ice Hockey – NES – I simply loved this game, probably because of it’s simplicity.  There were no actual players, only a fat guy, a guy that wasn’t as fat as the fat guy and a skinny guy.  You had to get by on your guts and guile and I had neither so I was terrible at this game, but I loved it all the same.

1. NES Track & Field – I’m not sure there was a game that there was ever a game that offered as much in terms of game play as Track & Field.  Combine the game play with the running pad and you have a pure Nintendo bliss.

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