Best Sports Video Game of All Time

[Zombie Mod]

the early fifa that let you run away from the ref before he gave you a yellow/red card.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

I spent more time playing ESPN NFL 2K5 more than anything. Loved that game so much.

[slickrickstyles]

Baseball - Super Baseball Simulator 9000 and Ken Griffey Jr Winning Run for me
Basketball - NBA Give n Go (Console port of Run n Gun), NBA JAM TE, NBA 2K dreamcast
Football - NFL Blitz engine (never was a madden fan)
Wrestling - Fire Pro Wrestling Returns and VPW2 and/No Mercy
Soccer - Never a fan growing up in IL/IN.

[sarkerpolseng]

NHL 94 for the Sega Genesis.

[unc40]

Basketball - Coach K Basketball was a fun game to play and I say this as a Tar Heel fan.

Football - NCAA 14 was the best so far but may change my mind when I get CFB 25.

Baseball - Baseball Stars was not only fun to play but had pretty good graphics for it's time.

[Allie Kitsune]

I was kind of a big fan of FIFA Street 2012.

[Joker]

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 I would imagine, it transcended ast actual fans of the sport to everyone else.

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

Fire Pro Wrestling World- According to Steam I've played this game for 3,796.7 hours, so that's my pick for all time favorite

Honorable mention to NBA Jam Champion Edition

[Derk!]

NBA Jam. Easy controls, fun gameplay. The ability to do turbocharged 360 slam dunk with Bill Clinton. What's not to love?


Honorable mention to the NFL Street series. Me and buddies played the hell out of this one.

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

For me it's definitely NBA Street: Vol. 2. That's just one of the most fun video games of all time, not limited only to sports games.

But, I also have to give a shout to:

Mario Tennis (GBC) - I spent countless hours playing this one as a kid. It was a genuinely fun RPG on top of being a solid Mario Tennis game. It's a shame Nintendo doesn't really allow as much latitude in their secondary sports titles like this anymore. Honestly one of my favorite games on the entire console.

Super Mega Baseball 3 - Metalhead really had something awesome with these games. Something about them captured the feeling of sitting in front of my family computer playing Backyard Baseball as a kid in a way that no other modern game has ever been able to. The gameplay is deceptively deep and fun and, honestly, when all was said and done, I ended up enjoying SMB3 substantially more than either of the last two iterations of the Show. It's a damn shame that EA got their talons into Metalhead and seem to have killed the series as of last week.

[Soultastic]

International Superstar Soccer DELUXE

KEEPER FUMBLE

NO FOUL??

[Fundertaker]

Jul 17, 2024 10:12:39 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

International Superstar Soccer DELUXE

KEEPER FUMBLE

NO FOUL??

And scoring goals with the goalkeeper in the other teams area using the hands.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Jul 17, 2024 8:12:36 GMT -5 Joker said:

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 I would imagine, it transcended ast actual fans of the sport to everyone else.

I knew nothing of skateboarding, wasn’t a skater, spent 6 months playing the demo of THPS 1 at my buddies house because that game was so incredible. Then the actual game came out and sweet mother of f*** did it blow our minds

[darbus alan]

I love that there was (still is?) a dedicated effort to update the rosters and teams for Tecmo Super Bowl on both NES and SNES. I hate modern day football games like the Maddens but I still enjoy TSB a whole lot.

[ERON]

Does Mario Kart count? Because if it does, there's your GOAT.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

for me its gotta be MVP Baseball 05 or NFL 2K5.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Jul 16, 2024 15:11:03 GMT -5 slickrickstyles said:

Baseball - Super Baseball Simulator 9000 and Ken Griffey Jr Winning Run for me
Basketball - NBA Give n Go (Console port of Run n Gun), NBA JAM TE, NBA 2K dreamcast
Football - NFL Blitz engine (never was a madden fan)
Wrestling - Fire Pro Wrestling Returns and VPW2 and/No Mercy
Soccer - Never a fan growing up in IL/IN.

Hell yes on VPW2 getting a shout out here. It is the best game in that line of AKI N64 games.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Baseball-Baseball Stars 1 on the NES
Football-Mutant League Football on the genesis
Basketball-NBA Jam on the Genesis
Hockey-Mutant League Hockey on the Genesis

[slickrickstyles]

Jul 18, 2024 11:14:31 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Jul 16, 2024 15:11:03 GMT -5 slickrickstyles said:

Baseball - Super Baseball Simulator 9000 and Ken Griffey Jr Winning Run for me
Basketball - NBA Give n Go (Console port of Run n Gun), NBA JAM TE, NBA 2K dreamcast
Football - NFL Blitz engine (never was a madden fan)
Wrestling - Fire Pro Wrestling Returns and VPW2 and/No Mercy
Soccer - Never a fan growing up in IL/IN.

Hell yes on VPW2 getting a shout out here. It is the best game in that line of AKI N64 games.

I imported it for my N64 and used a gameshark to play it and printed off like a 100 page edit and translation manual from gamefaqs back in the day haha...Years later I found out I could have just shaved the cartridge itself down or replace the back with one of my ntsc ones and it would have worked just as well. 

[PHD-FENDERBAUM]