On this episode of the Pizza Pixel Podcast, my brother Jeff returns and we talk about our favorite sports video games. Neither of us are really into sports, but we do have our favorite sports video games here and there. There’s some unusual picks, so it should be an interesting discussion to listen to! So please check it out with the link provided below!
In the comments section, let me know YOUR favorite sports video games! Thanks for listening! Later! --Cary
I caught the last two podcasts a few weeks ago when I had some time. I'll try and get to this one when I can.
Old to new: Activision Tennis, Bowling (Atari), NBA Jam, PGA Tour Golf, NBA Showtime, Links 2004, PBA Pro Bowling, Super Mega Baseball series.
I read somewhere that David Crane, creator of Pitfall, is an avid tennis fan so he made Activision Tennis. He also made a SNES game called David Crane's Amazing Tennis. I got to meet David Crane in person TWICE!
I'd like to try that SNES tennis game. I've never seen it.
I've never seen it either, but I'm not a big fan of tennis video games. Just seems like glorified Pong to me. Only tennis game I ever really got into was SEGA Superstars Tennis because, well, you know.
But you can put spin on the ball in Tennis, serve an ace, lob the ball, and chip the ball short. Can't do all that in Pong.
That's why I call it glorfied Pong.
The first sports games I ever played were a couple of TRS-80 games. One was a baseball game, the other was a decathlon game made by "Micro Soft." Yes, it was the same company before they turned into the giant company-swallowing behemoth they are today. I played Track and Field and Activision Decathlon on Atari. I had an Atari Trak-Ball with a rapid fire switch on itb(and was about the size of a Sega Genesis) so I cheesed my way through those games. My favorite sports games are the NBA Jam games by Midway, the ones that featured digitized players and had Mortal Kombat characters and even President Bill Clinton as hidden players. I do play the Nintendo sports games once in awhile.
I never got into NBA Jam myself. It wasn't a priority for me to play at the arcade, especially since most of the time it was crowded by other players. It was certainly a popular game, though. It gets referenced and made fun of even recently, like one episode of Regular Show spoofs it.