Post links to your favourite retro sports games.

Mega Drive - Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars



Sensible Soccer (I always liked this version the most)



Brian Lara Cricket



Pete Sampras Tennis '96

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For me 3 immediately spring to mind

Athlete Kings (Sega Saturn) - Still own this and it was one of my most played multi-player games. Some great games with my brother and his mates. Same with Winter Heat too.






Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga)

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A dubious nominee on my behalf, but I can't help but wax lyrical about Wave Race 64, which epitomises jet-ski sports games for me.

My abiding memory is undoubtedly the nautical music, chiefly the ditty that presaged a race and the configuration music. Totaka's score so eloquently describes, to me, the serenity of the beaches and fruit-juice coloured waters. I interpret from the music a potent feeling of the lapping waters and sea-side heat, given that much of the instrumentation seems to convey the sort of impression you get from sun rays and the like: the twinkles of light are expressed so well in the musical chimes.

Elsewhere, a feeling for the rumble of the vehicles is expressed well in the Machine Select music; and it's hard to forget the mystical pipes of Misty Lake.

Geoff Crammonds F1GP. Loved this game, despite never really watching F1. I think I got it as a free gift for subscribing to PC Zone. Ah, so much nostalgia in one thread - the game, the magazine and the free gift.

My overall favourites are the everybody's golf series and pro evo up until about 2004 I think,when it started to go downhill.

Honourable mentions in to Leaderboard, Speedball 2,Sensible soccer, Track n field,Jimmy Whites snooker and monkey target

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Steve Davis Snooker on the Spectrum:



Super Soccer on the SNES:



Golf on the Gameboy:



Barry McGuigan's Boxing on the Spectrum:



All amazing games. More I can't be bothered to find clips of are Pole Position and that motorbike game where you're basically a green smudge racing other blue/black smudges on the Spectrum. And of course, Super Tennis

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ISS pro 98 on the N64 was my favorite football game ever.

Japan World Cup 3



The only sports game that's any good.

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This.

World League was imense. Shame I never had a controller pack and all my Strikes kept getting injured.

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ISS Pro 98 was only on PS, you're thinking of the inferior ISS 98.

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ISS 2000 on the N64 was the best ISS game though. I've waxed lyrical about its wonderful, bafflingly insane RPG career mode far too many times on this forum.

Disclaimer: I have no idea if it has an equivalent on the PlayStation, and whether said equivalent has the career mode.

I really liked hockey games when I was a kid. Loved the occasional punch up and was always trying to start a fight rather than trying to score .Haven't played one for about 10yrs though.

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Great call with this one. I can't believe how quickly the music came back to me after all these years, especially the between rounds jingle that merged seamlessly with the bell ringing for the next round.

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On the SNES, PGA Tour 93, NHLPA 93, Super Tennis, Sensible Soccer.

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SpeedBall.

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Brutal Deluxe

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absofuckinglutely.

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The good old Spectrum and its limited video memory! Love how the balls keep changing colour.

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