@@johnr4836after opinions censorship next in line is putting people in jail for expressing their opinions, after that next in line is killing people's and mass Graves, I live in ex communist country, I know how it is
NBA LIVE '95 & especially *NBA LIVE '96* were the 2 MegaDrive sport games that i've spent literally thousands of hours playing against my brother. We even had a notebook exclusively for writing down the results from our matches as an historical archive !!! We were writing who won , what was the score , who was the top scorer of the match , our players shooting % ratio , etc ... Never again since then have i played a sport game with such devotion.
When I was in the Air Force we used to have NHL 94 tournaments in the barracks. Sometimes we played Madden 93. I used to rent NBA Live 95 and almost every other weekend I would rent Arnold Palmer Golf from the local video store. Good times.
A friend and I shared a Genesis back in the day and played the hell out of it without ever playing a platformer, arcade game or RPG. It was all Joe Montana, Tommy Lassorda, NHLPA Hockey, etc. To me, the Genesis was a sports game machine. It wasn’t until the Smash Pack on the Dreamcast that I finally played Sonic, Golden Axe etc. and realized how much more there was to the Genesis library.
This brought back some fond memories. Fortunately I still have my original Genesis which was purchased in 1993 and still works great. I still have several of my favorite sports games and play them from time to time. My Top 10 Sport Faves are as follows: 10. Mutant League Football 9. PGA Tour III 8. Rugby World Cup 95 7. ATP Tour Tennis 6. NBA JAM TE* 5. Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing 4. World Series Baseball 94* 3. NFL Football 94 Starring Joe Montana* 2. NHL97* 1. Triple Play Gold* All the titles with asterisks are carts of which I still have from when they were brand new and still work. I love the Genesis Triple Play games for the depth they brought to console baseball games, but hated what they became during the PC version years. The same is true for NHL.
94 was so overrated. I honestly hate how much people love that game. Hahahaha. 93, 95, and 96 are all better. 94 took out fighting and the blood. I really have nonidea why people love that one so much
@@thegreatone9923 nope. NHL 94 did not have fighting. They took it out in 94 and 95 then brought it back for 96, 97. If you are referring to the movie Swingers they are playing 93 while discussing 94. I promise
This really changes my perspective on old sports games. My local game shop always has a million Sega Genesis sports titles that never seem to sell, so maybe I'll keep an eye out for some of these.
NHL 94...Madden 94...FIFA 95... Bill Walsh college football .... NBA LIve all quality games which I owned on my Megadrive which is what the Genesis was known by here in the UK 🇬🇧. A great video...I loved this trip down memory lane back to the great sporting 16bit days !. Thank you!
My favourite was Brian Lara Cricket. It was a huge deal back then to have all the players scoring/record algorithm on the scoreboard and their respective attributes
@@DenkyManner Translation (which is pretty obvious to most): He is nostalgic for that time. Also, there are no great new games being made that are like it.
@@cityside75 Time warp reply, absolutely Dick Steptoe is one of the first opponents in the career mode. The majority of the roster is a near Fighting Baseball level of silly. Razor Robbins, Ice Ian, Rob Hemphill, Hot Rod Nils, Hunk Hughes, Joe Steinman, Michael Lamb, Jim Kahn, Jeff Godfrey, B.J Higgins, Dane King, Dave Stevis, Slo Mo Jones, Big Bob Jacob, J.D Leforge, Wildman West, Red Mclane, Carl Coolman, Jim Jo Bone, E.Z Ray, Kent Goad, Pat Grinder, Chuck Wayne, Dynamite Don, Dick Steptoe, Mick Llonigan
My faves are NHLPA Hockey, which did get a release in the UK, John Madden, NBA Jam and PGA Golf. My uncle was to blame for that last one. He told me he'd bought a golf game and I sniggered up my sleeve. Who would want to play a game of golf on the megadrive? But when we sat down to play it, oh lord I saw the light.
As a kid, I grew up playing all the Genesis sports games, NHL94, 95, Tommy Lasorda, Sportstalk baseball/football, even NBA Action has a place in my heart. My all-time favorite sim sports title on the Genesis was NBA Live 95.
I was a Sega kid and I mostly only played sports games because my friends would usually come to my house to play. For me my favourites were: NHL 94 , FIFA 94, NBA Jam and of course WWF games.
Thanks for doing a sports episode. I remember AVGN saying something like "if you have one baseball game why do you need to have so many others?" when talking about more variety of sports titles on Genesis vs. SNES. It's not that simple! Sports are incredibly hard to get right because they're based on physics and reality, that's why a good sports game really stands out and most flop.
ISS Deluxe was extremely popular in Latin America for the Super Nintendo, since that's the most popular sport here by a lot and the game was actually localized for that console unlike the Genesis, Brazil aside
I much preferred “Joe Montana NFL Sportstalk Football ‘94” due to the awful passing game in ‘93, which was fixed in ‘94. I sometimes find myself calling real (American) football games with the announcer’s voice. It’s archaic by today’s standard, but I still love this classic.
You do a wonderful job of explaining your rationale, as well as properly expressing an opinion (a lot of videos express opinion as someone everyone else should either accept or oppose). You state it as nothing more than your own. I remember playing an amazing golf game where one of the options was to select super ceramic golf clubs, which were the best choice for that game. I also remember an amazing baseball game where you had three stadiums to choose from, with incredible game play. I will always love original NHL Hockey and Madden. Couldn’t get enough of those games in the early 90’s.
John Madden Football is the game that made me an English fan of American Football, having never previously watched it nor the slightest clue as to how it's played. The manual that came with the game had probably the best description of the rules for a novice.
As a kid, I played Charles Barkley's Shut Up and Jam and this one Tiny Toon Adventures sports game that had soccer and basketball on it. There was also one of the WWF games. As for NBA Hangtime, I only played the N64 version. I didn't even know it was ported to the Genesis until now.
Great video as always. I tried the American football games as a kid but didn’t really understand them due to living in England so was more into the FIFA Soccer games back then and I played that International Superstar Soccer too and loved it. WWF Royal Rumble was awesome as well and had it both for the SNES and Sega Mega Drive. Loved how you added the Hulk Hogan theme soundtrack near the end. 👏🏻
Thank you for this. I love learning about sports games, even if I don't actually play them. They pushed system limits - and the limits of storage media - all the way through the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. And the competition between rivals was often a better story than the sports themselves.
NFL Football 94 was the last real new title that I played with my dad back in the day. He decided that games were a little too complicated once the 32-bit generation came around. So I've definitely got some deep rooted nostalgia for Sports Talk 93, as we played both that and 94. WWF Royal Rumble might be my most played game with my friends on the Genesis. It was the closest we could get to the button mashing fun of Wrestlefest, while having fresh enough rosters to feel somewhat current to what we'd see on TV. World Series Baseball was likely my most played solo sports title on the Genesis. I was super into baseball back then, and having the real teams, players, and stadiums represented was welcome, along with a fun game engine under the hood. I think Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing was the catalyst for my getting a Genesis. A friend of mine rented it, and the graphics and presentation were an absolute game changer for me.
Aw man my brother and our friends used to have epic tournaments with NHL 94 amd PGA 3. Those were great times. They have all passed away since then but i treasure those memories.
Outstanding episode!!!! I grew up with a SNES (which had a fair share of solid sports games - Griffey, Super Tennis, NBA Give N Go, NCAA Basketball, etc.), but the Genesis was where it was for sports!!! While sports games will never be as legendary as Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, etc., I find them fun to play (from the NES-PS2)...Some of my favorites on the Genesis are: NBA Jam NBA Jam Tournament Edition NBA Action 94 NFL 94 feat. Joe Montana Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars Madden series NHL series NBA Live series College Slam Tecmo Super Bowl series Tecmo Super NBA Basketball 2020 Super Baseball Coach K College Basketball (still kinda irks me that UNC isn’t in the game as an NC native) ATP Tour Championship Tennis Greatest Heavyweights Sports Talk Baseball World Series Baseball
I honestly think it was the first time I heard an American person referring to American football as 'American football', as we all do in the rest of the world, haha!
Ive always loved the PGA tour series, which me and my father used to play together. Then there's the bulls vs blazers series, also loved tommy lasorda basball. Sega and EA combined were a force to be reckoned with on the genesis, still is to this day
Growing up with my Genesis I played lots of RBI Baseball 4, mainly because it used the MLB from the 1991 season where my sports hero Cal Ripken Jr. won MVP of the league. Nothing like going into home run derby mode as Cal, setting the park to Kauffman Stadium and hitting moonshots into the digital waterfalls in the outfield!
Nba jam tournament, tecmo nba basketball, madden 95, mutant league football, nhl 94, nhl 95, wwf wrestlemania arcade, tommy lasorda baseball, fifa 96, Saturday night slam masters will be my top ten
It's amazing how spot-on the predictions of Super Baseball 2020 were. I mean, an empty stand devoid of humans. Not one human around to infect another. Wow. (By the way, I am one of those NHL '94 guys, though I played some others on this list. I wasn't particularly into sports games, as I have never been really into sports, but I played the heck out of NHL '94...which I felt was better than '95, and it seems that others agree.)
Great list, as per usual! Hang Time feels like a wildly under appreciated game regardless of the platform. The 16-Bit adaptations weren’t flawless, but were incredibly fun. The arcade game is one of my favorite of all time and still serves as great 4-player fun when fired up in emulation. Hell, my big headed basketball custom character has accrued hundreds of wins over the years-the closest I ever came to ever going pro!
Since I'm a huge sports fan and played sports games religiously on the Genesis here's my top 10: 1. NHL 94 2. Madden 93 3. Super Baseball 2020 4. Greatest Heavyweights 5. Jeopardy Sports Edition 6. Mutant League Football 7. Coach K College Basketball 8. NBA Live 96 9. Rugby World Cup 95 10. Fifa 95 Other Maddens and NHL games were awesome but I limited myself to one per series
Joe Montana Football 93 was also my favorite!👍 I was addicted to it. I'd wake up early before the NFL games started and get a couple of games in. Then I'd return to playing it after NFL games finished on TV. It was far superior than Madden in my book.
International Superstar Soccer (which was later renamed to Pro Evolution Soccer) was truly one of the greats, and the Nintendo 64 game (ISS64) was on a level with Mario 64 or Turok on the "This console is awesome!".
It wasn't renamed pro Evo. It was always iss until the game failed with both iss games on gamecube. Pro Evo by that time was already a different and new football game made by a different studio.
@@drunkensailor112 Good call, I stand corrected since I thought that ISS was the western title for Winning Eleven, but it was Jikkyō Soccer. Though International Superstar Soccer Pro on the PS1 is indeed a Winning Eleven/Pro Evo game - that's a confusing lineage.
I appreciate so much that your channel and sites like Racketboy finally break down what the best sports games. When there's 20 versions of Madden it's great to know which are the ones actually worth owning.
A SOLID choice of games. Sports Talk 93 would have been my top choice. Greatest Heavy Weights 2nd. NBA Jame TE 3. NHL 94 4. Those 4 games ate up a TON of time!
Did not expect Joe Montana sports talk football at number 1. Had that game as a kid, but always preferred Madden 94 and Bill Walsh College Football. I did like doing snow games tho, hearing the announcer say it’s beginning to snow on the 2nd play of the game with the field already covered was funny to me
PGA Tour Golf, wow that was an amazing game. I never got to play the Fifa soccer game featured here but I did have EA Sports FIFA International Soccer 96, loved it. Royal Rumble was my favorite game outright for a while when I was a kid. Great memories and I agree with a lot of your choices here.
I really like the 1995 season as that year had my favorite entries in EA Sports' series on the Genesis: NBA Live 95, Madden NFL 95, NHL 95, and FIFA Soccer 95 (the first FIFA game to include club teams from Europe and South America) were all awesome.
I love sports games, especially in that era. I have at least one of baseball, basketball, football, futbol and hockey on my Genesis. NFL Football '94 is one of my favorites, and I'm a latino guy that loves futbol above any other sport. WWF games were great too, at a time when the actual product was decent. And ISS Deluxe, I got it in Chile bootlegged (I did not know that was the case back then), and even though it's not as good as the SNES version, I still played the crap out of it.
Digitized speech usually takes up a lot of space. I wonder how big those Sports Talk Football carts were back then to be able to hold all of that speech. Perhaps they were.... 40+ MEGA POWERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
I'd pick Madden '92 for football primarily because of the ambulance and also because I found the weather, particularly the snow, "pretty". I think it's also the only Madden gave I've ever played to this day. I'd also like to mention World Series Baseball since I grew up in the Montreal area and it was the first baseball game that I ever played that let me play as the Expos in Olympic Stadium, instead of just a generic stadium as seen in Sports Talk Baseball (which had the MLBPA license but not the Major League Baseball license, so it had the players but no logos or real world stadiums). The sports game I played the most on the Genesis was NHL '94, even though I never really followed hockey much in real life, since it's a fun pick-up-and-play title and the first NHL game to have both the real team names and the names of the players in the same game (plus some synthesized versions of the authentic organ music tunes played in certain arenas like "Here Come the Hawks" for the Chicago Blackhawks).
I'm from Europe, and despite "soccer" is not my piece of cake it's part of our culture, kind of... Super kudos to you to have mentioned IssDeluxe. Must be more difficult for an American to appreciate "soccer" games, like for us your "football". But you picked up the very best of the 16bit era. So many memories with that game. Did you know there's a code to have dogs instead of the referees? ;D Well done again Sglx!
Good choice to begin with the John Madden Football ‘91 menu theme while San Antonio’s David Robinson and Dennis Rodman take on Seattle’s Shawn Kemp (pre-drugs) and Detlef Schrempf from NBA Jam TE, and finish up with Hulk Hogan’s theme song on WWF Royal Rumble while Kim Nang and Fernando Gomez box in James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing and San Francisco’s Steve Young throws to Terrell Owens for 30 yard touchdown vs. Green Bay Packers in Madden NFL 97/98.
Again, well done and thanks for showing sports games some love. There are really some great quality games here. I also agree with you 100% about modern sports games loosing their creativity. Another reason why I love being a retro gamer. I definitely see some games I have to add to my collection. Also another reason why I love physical media which allows me be be able to find these games, put them in the Genesis and play them, no update or internet connection required.
When I first got my my model 2 genesis as a kid...the first 2 games were sonic 2 and....madden baby. Everyone forgets that madden used to have live highlights of other games after your game. It was so cool as a kid and made it feel like a tv presentation.
This is a tough list for me. All games are good but I spent so many hours playing Tommy Lasorda Baseball and NHL 94. Just goes to show how superior the Genesis was when it came to sports games.
My best friend is a sports fan and we each had a Genesis. He’s the only reason I played sports games and I learned most of the rules to most sports from them.
For Tecmo Bowl you gotta go with Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition, got all the bells and whistles. NBA Live 95 is still considered one of the best basketball games ever made to this day, along with Coach K. World Series Baseball is still one of the best baseball games ever made. NHL 93/94 is just legendary, people who didn't like hockey were playing it.
If anyone enjoys College football teams more than the NFL teams, College footballs national championship is the same game as Joe Montana football only you get the big college teams.
Aw man. Sad to see no NHL 94. To me, that was the tightest playing Genesis sports game, but the whole series is super playable. But I'm glad you highlighted this genre. I've always had a soft spot for 16-bit sports games and love that I can still pick those out of the bargain bin on the reg.
Euro-Megadrive user here mine would of been PGA II / Madden 92 / Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing / Davis Cup Tennis / FIFA 95 / EA Hockey 92 / Wrestle War / NBA Jam / Barcelona 92 Olympics / Super Monaco GP/Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II. These are my top 10. Great video SLX I played all your choices and do agree there ALL great games.
I just remember the "Yo!" on the title screen of Sports Talk Football as a kid lol. Me & my friends loved that for whatever reason. We were easily amused back then.
"These are my personal preferences and opinions"
That's why we are here.
soon opinions will be banned
@@johnr4836yes !!!
@@johnr4836after opinions censorship next in line is putting people in jail for expressing their opinions, after that next in line is killing people's and mass Graves, I live in ex communist country, I know how it is
@@GreplayTv funny 3 ye ago I said that now days they're trying to
NBA LIVE '95 & especially *NBA LIVE '96* were the 2 MegaDrive sport games that i've spent literally thousands of hours playing against my brother.
We even had a notebook exclusively for writing down the results from our matches as an historical archive !!!
We were writing who won , what was the score , who was the top scorer of the match , our players shooting % ratio , etc ...
Never again since then have i played a sport game with such devotion.
Brother, you're speaking my language. I used to put this kind of work into rugby world cup 95
Props for doing a sports episode. One thing I love about retro collecting is that I love sports and racing games and they are often cheap.
The local goodwill had every ps2 madden and ncaa march madness for a buck each last week, now I have them.
Same. I have tons on SNES, PS1 and PS2. Often forgotten.
Yes! I love the fact of just going back in time and seeing my favorite team as I saw them as a kid lol Barry Sanders!😭🤣
When I was in the Air Force we used to have NHL 94 tournaments in the barracks. Sometimes we played Madden 93. I used to rent NBA Live 95 and almost every other weekend I would rent Arnold Palmer Golf from the local video store. Good times.
A friend and I shared a Genesis back in the day and played the hell out of it without ever playing a platformer, arcade game or RPG. It was all Joe Montana, Tommy Lassorda, NHLPA Hockey, etc. To me, the Genesis was a sports game machine. It wasn’t until the Smash Pack on the Dreamcast that I finally played Sonic, Golden Axe etc. and realized how much more there was to the Genesis library.
Ouch that "compilation" had horrible emulation quality...
@@chrisw8069 only the sound sucked
@@drunkensailor112 yeah, nope
NHL '94, Madden '93, and World Series Baseball were my favorites on the Genesis.
Yeah man. How the heck NHL 94 didn't make this list is beyond me. And I'm from the UK :)
Madden 93 is still one of my favorite Maddens
"While old sports games tend to be dismissed by many in retro gaming. You'll get no nonsense here." You're speaking to my heart Sega Lord X
Yes! Loved that callout
This brought back some fond memories. Fortunately I still have my original Genesis which was purchased in 1993 and still works great. I still have several of my favorite sports games and play them from time to time. My Top 10 Sport Faves are as follows:
10. Mutant League Football
9. PGA Tour III
8. Rugby World Cup 95
7. ATP Tour Tennis
6. NBA JAM TE*
5. Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing
4. World Series Baseball 94*
3. NFL Football 94 Starring Joe Montana*
2. NHL97*
1. Triple Play Gold*
All the titles with asterisks are carts of which I still have from when they were brand new and still work. I love the Genesis Triple Play games for the depth they brought to console baseball games, but hated what they became during the PC version years. The same is true for NHL.
In Canada, NHL-NHL94, were the greatest sports games ever, followed by Evander Holyfields real deal boxing and World Series Baseball.
94 was so overrated. I honestly hate how much people love that game. Hahahaha. 93, 95, and 96 are all better. 94 took out fighting and the blood. I really have nonidea why people love that one so much
@@rafikix1152 nhl 94 had fighting it was 95 that took it out
@@thegreatone9923 nope. NHL 94 did not have fighting. They took it out in 94 and 95 then brought it back for 96, 97.
If you are referring to the movie Swingers they are playing 93 while discussing 94. I promise
@@thegreatone9923 that's how EA got the licensing deal. The NHL said we won't give you the player/team names unless you take out fighting.
NHL 94 Genesis had sent their carts out for print in Japan too late. The Sega CD version is better, but lost the fighting.
This really changes my perspective on old sports games. My local game shop always has a million Sega Genesis sports titles that never seem to sell, so maybe I'll keep an eye out for some of these.
Sega Lord X and the Genesis really helped open my mind about sports games.
NHL 94...Madden 94...FIFA 95... Bill Walsh college football .... NBA LIve all quality games which I owned on my Megadrive which is what the Genesis was known by here in the UK 🇬🇧.
A great video...I loved this trip down memory lane back to the great sporting 16bit days !.
Thank you!
My favourite was Brian Lara Cricket.
It was a huge deal back then to have all the players scoring/record algorithm on the scoreboard and their respective attributes
We never realised how good we had it as sports gamers. Now literally every game is an RPG
Sports games were arguably one of the biggest selling points of the Genesis back then. Great Video.
NBA Jam was such a fun game. I miss it still.
You can still play it
I especially liked to secrets such as "big head mode".
@@DenkyManner Translation (which is pretty obvious to most): He is nostalgic for that time. Also, there are no great new games being made that are like it.
NBA JAM: on fire edition
Yeah im a pretty big fan and someone I never knew that NBA Hang Time was essentially NBA Jam 3
LUVSTOSPOOGE in the doubles match is a nice touch. Lol
Now I need to know if "Dick Steptoe" in Holyfield boxing is really in the game or an SLX creation ;)
@@cityside75 I know I'd avoid him. I was wondering if anybody else caught that one.
@@cityside75 Time warp reply, absolutely Dick Steptoe is one of the first opponents in the career mode. The majority of the roster is a near Fighting Baseball level of silly. Razor Robbins, Ice Ian, Rob Hemphill, Hot Rod Nils, Hunk Hughes, Joe Steinman, Michael Lamb, Jim Kahn, Jeff Godfrey, B.J Higgins, Dane King, Dave Stevis, Slo Mo Jones, Big Bob Jacob, J.D Leforge, Wildman West, Red Mclane, Carl Coolman, Jim Jo Bone, E.Z Ray, Kent Goad, Pat Grinder, Chuck Wayne, Dynamite Don, Dick Steptoe, Mick Llonigan
Thanks Sega lord x in igniting my new desire to collect retro sports games! The sports games on Genesis were so fun!
I think NFL '94 is my most played sports game. I love it
Mandatory comment to apease the engagement algorithm.
Thanks for your hard work mate
My faves are NHLPA Hockey, which did get a release in the UK, John Madden, NBA Jam and PGA Golf. My uncle was to blame for that last one. He told me he'd bought a golf game and I sniggered up my sleeve. Who would want to play a game of golf on the megadrive? But when we sat down to play it, oh lord I saw the light.
I'm shocked NHL 94 or 95 didn't even crack the top 10. That makes my top 3 Genesis sports games.
This is the first video of yours that I’ve really sat down and watched. This is exactly the type of content I’m looking for. Good work.
As a kid, I grew up playing all the Genesis sports games, NHL94, 95, Tommy Lasorda, Sportstalk baseball/football, even NBA Action has a place in my heart. My all-time favorite sim sports title on the Genesis was NBA Live 95.
If you want Bonestorm and all you get is Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge
"You have selected..."'no'".
Played Montana so much. Holds special place with me as well
I was a Sega kid and I mostly only played sports games because my friends would usually come to my house to play. For me my favourites were: NHL 94 , FIFA 94, NBA Jam and of course WWF games.
I don’t even like sports games but your nostalgia is so pure
Yeah, his passion for the hobby and systems is inspiring
Thanks for doing a sports episode. I remember AVGN saying something like "if you have one baseball game why do you need to have so many others?" when talking about more variety of sports titles on Genesis vs. SNES. It's not that simple! Sports are incredibly hard to get right because they're based on physics and reality, that's why a good sports game really stands out and most flop.
ISS Deluxe was extremely popular in Latin America for the Super Nintendo, since that's the most popular sport here by a lot and the game was actually localized for that console unlike the Genesis, Brazil aside
I much preferred “Joe Montana NFL Sportstalk Football ‘94” due to the awful passing game in ‘93, which was fixed in ‘94. I sometimes find myself calling real (American) football games with the announcer’s voice. It’s archaic by today’s standard, but I still love this classic.
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf is my favorite sports game on the Genesis. It's also in my top 3 favorite Genesis games of all time.
You do a wonderful job of explaining your rationale, as well as properly expressing an opinion (a lot of videos express opinion as someone everyone else should either accept or oppose). You state it as nothing more than your own.
I remember playing an amazing golf game where one of the options was to select super ceramic golf clubs, which were the best choice for that game. I also remember an amazing baseball game where you had three stadiums to choose from, with incredible game play.
I will always love original NHL Hockey and Madden. Couldn’t get enough of those games in the early 90’s.
John Madden Football is the game that made me an English fan of American Football, having never previously watched it nor the slightest clue as to how it's played. The manual that came with the game had probably the best description of the rules for a novice.
As a kid, I played Charles Barkley's Shut Up and Jam and this one Tiny Toon Adventures sports game that had soccer and basketball on it. There was also one of the WWF games. As for NBA Hangtime, I only played the N64 version. I didn't even know it was ported to the Genesis until now.
@10:45 I wished 2020 had to be like this, instead of the 2020 that we got in reality....
Minus the pandemic.
And life/the world has never been the same since. Life sucked even before 2020 but the pandemic went from bad to worst.
NFL Football 94 was by far the game me and the neighborhood kids played on rainy days back in the mid 90s.
Great video as always. I tried the American football games as a kid but didn’t really understand them due to living in England so was more into the FIFA Soccer games back then and I played that International Superstar Soccer too and loved it. WWF Royal Rumble was awesome as well and had it both for the SNES and Sega Mega Drive. Loved how you added the Hulk Hogan theme soundtrack near the end. 👏🏻
Thank you for this. I love learning about sports games, even if I don't actually play them.
They pushed system limits - and the limits of storage media - all the way through the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. And the competition between rivals was often a better story than the sports themselves.
Super Baseball 2020, and Sports Talk Football 93 have always been some of my favorite. I love sport games on the Genesis.
NFL Football 94 was the last real new title that I played with my dad back in the day. He decided that games were a little too complicated once the 32-bit generation came around. So I've definitely got some deep rooted nostalgia for Sports Talk 93, as we played both that and 94.
WWF Royal Rumble might be my most played game with my friends on the Genesis. It was the closest we could get to the button mashing fun of Wrestlefest, while having fresh enough rosters to feel somewhat current to what we'd see on TV.
World Series Baseball was likely my most played solo sports title on the Genesis. I was super into baseball back then, and having the real teams, players, and stadiums represented was welcome, along with a fun game engine under the hood.
I think Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing was the catalyst for my getting a Genesis. A friend of mine rented it, and the graphics and presentation were an absolute game changer for me.
Ah the good old days when EA where harmless, reminds me of that line from Tron about the MCP starting life as a harmless chess program
Aw man my brother and our friends used to have epic tournaments with NHL 94 amd PGA 3. Those were great times.
They have all passed away since then but i treasure those memories.
Outstanding episode!!!! I grew up with a SNES (which had a fair share of solid sports games - Griffey, Super Tennis, NBA Give N Go, NCAA Basketball, etc.), but the Genesis was where it was for sports!!! While sports games will never be as legendary as Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, etc., I find them fun to play (from the NES-PS2)...Some of my favorites on the Genesis are:
NBA Jam
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
NBA Action 94
NFL 94 feat. Joe Montana
Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars
Madden series
NHL series
NBA Live series
College Slam
Tecmo Super Bowl series
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball
2020 Super Baseball
Coach K College Basketball (still kinda irks me that UNC isn’t in the game as an NC native)
ATP Tour Championship Tennis
Greatest Heavyweights
Sports Talk Baseball
World Series Baseball
I honestly think it was the first time I heard an American person referring to American football as 'American football', as we all do in the rest of the world, haha!
He usually does it. I cherish that by the way
He is next level woke
@Pro Tengu Yeah, some of us code switch like that: "football" when talking to Americans, and "American fottball" when talking to non-Americans.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that John Madden is even still alive despite looking like a boiled potato for the past 25 years?
No kidding
I remember one time in the late 90s/early 2000s my friend said "what is EA going to do if he dies? He's clearly not going to be around much longer!"
R.i.p. John madden
well, he just got mashed
John Madden is DONE!!! DEAD! You think fanz would be happy considering the pressure for Madden 23 to be FIRE... AAAAAAAND IT SUCKS AWHOLE!!!
Ive always loved the PGA tour series, which me and my father used to play together. Then there's the bulls vs blazers series, also loved tommy lasorda basball. Sega and EA combined were a force to be reckoned with on the genesis, still is to this day
Montana engine and commenting technology was impressive.
Growing up with my Genesis I played lots of RBI Baseball 4, mainly because it used the MLB from the 1991 season where my sports hero Cal Ripken Jr. won MVP of the league. Nothing like going into home run derby mode as Cal, setting the park to Kauffman Stadium and hitting moonshots into the digital waterfalls in the outfield!
I didn’t watch hockey as a kid but I still owned NHL. I love that game.
Never was a sports fella, though NBA JAM and the Mutant League series was fun as hell!
NHL ‘94 is one of the top ten best sports games on any console.
Nba jam tournament, tecmo nba basketball, madden 95, mutant league football, nhl 94, nhl 95, wwf wrestlemania arcade, tommy lasorda baseball, fifa 96, Saturday night slam masters will be my top ten
It's amazing how spot-on the predictions of Super Baseball 2020 were. I mean, an empty stand devoid of humans. Not one human around to infect another. Wow. (By the way, I am one of those NHL '94 guys, though I played some others on this list. I wasn't particularly into sports games, as I have never been really into sports, but I played the heck out of NHL '94...which I felt was better than '95, and it seems that others agree.)
Here in Brazil, FIFA 95 was the soccer game everyone was playing, on the SNES it was International Superstar Soccer Deluxe sometime later.
Great list, as per usual! Hang Time feels like a wildly under appreciated game regardless of the platform. The 16-Bit adaptations weren’t flawless, but were incredibly fun. The arcade game is one of my favorite of all time and still serves as great 4-player fun when fired up in emulation. Hell, my big headed basketball custom character has accrued hundreds of wins over the years-the closest I ever came to ever going pro!
Ah, that classic, twangy Genesis music during the title card of this episode. Makes me feel at home.
Since I'm a huge sports fan and played sports games religiously on the Genesis here's my top 10:
1. NHL 94
2. Madden 93
3. Super Baseball 2020
4. Greatest Heavyweights
5. Jeopardy Sports Edition
6. Mutant League Football
7. Coach K College Basketball
8. NBA Live 96
9. Rugby World Cup 95
10. Fifa 95
Other Maddens and NHL games were awesome but I limited myself to one per series
Joe Montana Football 93 was also my favorite!👍 I was addicted to it. I'd wake up early before the NFL games started and get a couple of games in. Then I'd return to playing it after NFL games finished on TV. It was far superior than Madden in my book.
International Superstar Soccer (which was later renamed to Pro Evolution Soccer) was truly one of the greats, and the Nintendo 64 game (ISS64) was on a level with Mario 64 or Turok on the "This console is awesome!".
It wasn't renamed pro Evo. It was always iss until the game failed with both iss games on gamecube. Pro Evo by that time was already a different and new football game made by a different studio.
@@drunkensailor112 Good call, I stand corrected since I thought that ISS was the western title for Winning Eleven, but it was Jikkyō Soccer. Though International Superstar Soccer Pro on the PS1 is indeed a Winning Eleven/Pro Evo game - that's a confusing lineage.
I LOVE that you love golf games so much, golf is where it’s at!
Olympic Gold Barcelona games is a must play for mega drive, it was one of my favourite games
I appreciate so much that your channel and sites like Racketboy finally break down what the best sports games. When there's 20 versions of Madden it's great to know which are the ones actually worth owning.
No NHL by EA?! I wasn’t a Genesis owner but that’s one game I spent a lot of time with BITD with friends (specifically the 93 version).
A SOLID choice of games. Sports Talk 93 would have been my top choice. Greatest Heavy Weights 2nd. NBA Jame TE 3. NHL 94 4. Those 4 games ate up a TON of time!
You should've played Coach K basketball that was the best basketball on Sega Genesis simulation wise
Man, these games bring back memories!
Nice. Always good to see an episode on sports games. I’d love to see more of these videos about sports games! And not just for the Genesis either!
Did not expect Joe Montana sports talk football at number 1. Had that game as a kid, but always preferred Madden 94 and Bill Walsh College Football.
I did like doing snow games tho, hearing the announcer say it’s beginning to snow on the 2nd play of the game with the field already covered was funny to me
PGA Tour Golf, wow that was an amazing game. I never got to play the Fifa soccer game featured here but I did have EA Sports FIFA International Soccer 96, loved it. Royal Rumble was my favorite game outright for a while when I was a kid. Great memories and I agree with a lot of your choices here.
Joe Montana sports talk football was so sick.
also, nice editorial at the end; simulation is so limiting! SLX always warms the old heart
I really like the 1995 season as that year had my favorite entries in EA Sports' series on the Genesis: NBA Live 95, Madden NFL 95, NHL 95, and FIFA Soccer 95 (the first FIFA game to include club teams from Europe and South America) were all awesome.
I love sports games, especially in that era. I have at least one of baseball, basketball, football, futbol and hockey on my Genesis. NFL Football '94 is one of my favorites, and I'm a latino guy that loves futbol above any other sport. WWF games were great too, at a time when the actual product was decent. And ISS Deluxe, I got it in Chile bootlegged (I did not know that was the case back then), and even though it's not as good as the SNES version, I still played the crap out of it.
Sport games can be fun, but I really don't even have a passing interest in American Football. Speedball 2 is one I would pick.
Americans will never know how much the British loved Speedball 2. The British will never know how much Americans loved Tecmo Bowl : P
Digitized speech usually takes up a lot of space. I wonder how big those Sports Talk Football carts were back then to be able to hold all of that speech.
Perhaps they were.... 40+ MEGA POWERRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
I'd pick Madden '92 for football primarily because of the ambulance and also because I found the weather, particularly the snow, "pretty". I think it's also the only Madden gave I've ever played to this day.
I'd also like to mention World Series Baseball since I grew up in the Montreal area and it was the first baseball game that I ever played that let me play as the Expos in Olympic Stadium, instead of just a generic stadium as seen in Sports Talk Baseball (which had the MLBPA license but not the Major League Baseball license, so it had the players but no logos or real world stadiums).
The sports game I played the most on the Genesis was NHL '94, even though I never really followed hockey much in real life, since it's a fun pick-up-and-play title and the first NHL game to have both the real team names and the names of the players in the same game (plus some synthesized versions of the authentic organ music tunes played in certain arenas like "Here Come the Hawks" for the Chicago Blackhawks).
I'm from Europe, and despite "soccer" is not my piece of cake it's part of our culture, kind of...
Super kudos to you to have mentioned IssDeluxe. Must be more difficult for an American to appreciate "soccer" games, like for us your "football".
But you picked up the very best of the 16bit era. So many memories with that game. Did you know there's a code to have dogs instead of the referees? ;D
Well done again Sglx!
Congratulations on 90K subscribers! Here's to 100K up next! ( I was here when this channel had only 8K subs. Great growth! )
Sports talk 2 was my fav.
Sports Talk Baseball blew us away. Damn was it good.
Good choice to begin with the John Madden Football ‘91 menu theme while San Antonio’s David Robinson and Dennis Rodman take on Seattle’s Shawn Kemp (pre-drugs) and Detlef Schrempf from NBA Jam TE, and finish up with Hulk Hogan’s theme song on WWF Royal Rumble while Kim Nang and Fernando Gomez box in James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing and San Francisco’s Steve Young throws to Terrell Owens for 30 yard touchdown vs. Green Bay Packers in Madden NFL 97/98.
Again, well done and thanks for showing sports games some love. There are really some great quality games here. I also agree with you 100% about modern sports games loosing their creativity. Another reason why I love being a retro gamer. I definitely see some games I have to add to my collection. Also another reason why I love physical media which allows me be be able to find these games, put them in the Genesis and play them, no update or internet connection required.
I remember all the excitement about Pete sampras tennis ...
When I first got my my model 2 genesis as a kid...the first 2 games were sonic 2 and....madden baby. Everyone forgets that madden used to have live highlights of other games after your game. It was so cool as a kid and made it feel like a tv presentation.
Definitely all hockey games NHL94, 95, 96, 97 and 98. I liked NBA Jam also.
"didn't watch or play hockey"
*stares Canadianally as if somebody just issued forth an unsolveable math equation*
I'm Canadian. Played most other sports as a kid. Still cant/wont skate or watch hockey.
I will admit I'm an oddity though
This is a tough list for me. All games are good but I spent so many hours playing Tommy Lasorda Baseball and NHL 94. Just goes to show how superior the Genesis was when it came to sports games.
World Series Baseball was awesome and definitely a top 10!
My best friend had a sega and we would stay up playn NHL for hrrrrrrs! Great game and great times!
My best friend is a sports fan and we each had a Genesis. He’s the only reason I played sports games and I learned most of the rules to most sports from them.
Loved those 3D Fly-bys
For Tecmo Bowl you gotta go with Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition, got all the bells and whistles. NBA Live 95 is still considered one of the best basketball games ever made to this day, along with Coach K. World Series Baseball is still one of the best baseball games ever made. NHL 93/94 is just legendary, people who didn't like hockey were playing it.
07:21 LUVSTOSPOOGE, classic
If anyone enjoys College football teams more than the NFL teams, College footballs national championship is the same game as Joe Montana football only you get the big college teams.
Aw man. Sad to see no NHL 94. To me, that was the tightest playing Genesis sports game, but the whole series is super playable. But I'm glad you highlighted this genre. I've always had a soft spot for 16-bit sports games and love that I can still pick those out of the bargain bin on the reg.
Nba jam, NHL 94, Fifa 94, Sampras tennis
Euro-Megadrive user here mine would of been PGA II / Madden 92 / Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing / Davis Cup Tennis / FIFA 95 / EA Hockey 92 / Wrestle War / NBA Jam / Barcelona 92 Olympics / Super Monaco GP/Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP II. These are my top 10. Great video SLX I played all your choices and do agree there ALL great games.
We had a lot of the same sports games. But I had Madden '92 with the iconic ambulance that would run everyone over just to get to the injured players
My early gaming in 1992 to present started with Sports gaming
I just remember the "Yo!" on the title screen of Sports Talk Football as a kid lol. Me & my friends loved that for whatever reason. We were easily amused back then.