I remember playing the og game back then and having my mind blown.

Best graphics I'd ever seen up to that point! I was blown away by the Dreamcast! NFL 2K was awesome!

This was the reason I bought a Dreamcast. I started working at EB on 9/7/99, which was the day the Dreamcast stock arrived. The manager asked me to stock the back shelves. I opened the cardboard box and saw NFL 2K. I flipped that jewel case over….saw the graphics and I NEEDED a Dreamcast on 9/9/99. I had so much fun with this game. Whatever TV I put it on, someone passing by always said “oh, I thought that was a real game!”. Good times

Does anyone else remember the early 2000s when we had multiple football games to choose from every year? Not all of them were good, but they had their quirks that made them unique.

I loved this game and still do. I really hate how the NFL has helped Madden monopolize the NFL football game market. I find it funny the sport itself is built on pure competition but not the video games

I honestly feel so lucky that i played these games growing up. I remember going to the video game store to get tecmo super bowl when i was super young. And then in high school playing all these early 2k games on dreamcast. They were soooo much better and more fun then today's games.

At my job I used to go to a coworkers house at lunch to play Nfl 2k in 1999. It was the reason I bought a Dreamcast. I'd never seen anything that good in a sports game up to that point. Great memories.

Always love to hear your opinion on games. I like how you justify your opinion while not condemning someone who disagrees.

You should do a NFL Gameday, NFL Fever, and or NFL Quarterback Club retrospective Edit! EVERYONE PLEASE THUMBS UP SO SDTV CAN SEE THIS

Those Dreamcast 2K games really changed what people expected out of sports video games in a good way.

Before I started watching your videos i didnt even know 2k made football games, I thought it was just madden that was good. But when I tried 2k5 and 2k8 I was blown away at the quality of the games. Thank you softdrink

I got this game for Christmas at my Grandmother's house in Tennessee! 😄

If I may suggest, a retrospective on NFL Fever 04, definitely has the best passing mechanism in any NFL game with great commentary, depth, and face models for the time and especially now

NFL 2k5 is the greatest football game ever made. Madden will never surpass it. The reason EA signed that exclusive contract was out of fear. Fear that the NFL 2k games would replace Madden and end up like the Live series.

I played the hell out of my Dreamcast and this was one of my top played with NHL 2k, Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi, F355 Challenge, and MSR. There were a lot of great games where the analog sticks changed the way console games could be played

NFL 2K1 was the game that got me into football games. I was obsessed with it. I loved franchise, scouting opponents before the game, signing Barry Sanders, Steve Young, and Dan Marino in free agency!

This is the first NFL game that made me understand the sport. Them having run plays red and blue plays as passing plays…

Ahhh I remember those early 2k commercials with Randy moss and receiving dreamcast with 2k for Xmas, phenomenal memories and great great game

God I miss this and Dreamcast. The og controller with the text in the middle Everytime you score a TD it says "touchdown" or if you play basketball and it says " Trifecta" when you hit a 3. Nostalgia mode activated 🥺

This game was absolutely amazing when it came out. I can remember going into Best buy and there will be lines of people like 10 to 15 deep waiting to get to play this on the demo system that was set up.

I think NFL2K was my favorite of the Dreamcast ones. NFL2K1 was awesome for adding online play, and 2K2 was great too. But going back and playing them, NFL2K just had everything right in the gameplay and presentation/UI, the others weren't as fun to play going back to them. The later console releases were all pretty great too, although I didn't know about the All-Pro 2K8 release. But I can't say that I've knowingly purchased an EA game since they monopolized the NFL license for Madden because of what that did to my favorite football video game series, and I won't be buying anything from them again anytime soon. I look forward to your videos on the rest of the 2K series.

I remember playing this game at a Electronics Boutique and thought it was the greatest football game I’d ever seen. Such a great memory.

The animations was so fluid and smooth.

What a time to be alive. It was so fresh so different gameplay was actually mind blowing.

3:39 You missed one of the better entries in the Genesis series, NFL '95, which wasn't developed by BlueSky Innovations, it was developed by the same studio that did NFL '98, though they had a different name at that time, Double Diamond Software (and they're now called 'FarSight Studios'). For my money NFL '95 was the best of that whole Joe Montana/Deion Sanders series.

2K5 is still highly playable. So good

NFL 2k was Awesome!! Absolutely the reason I bought a dreamcast!!! I remember walking around the mall that day and the Dreamcast was on display at Gamestop. Somehow I hadn’t even heard of the Dreamcast until that day and was blown away by how real the football game appeared on the screen. I couldn’t believe the up close camera angles as the players walked around between plays. Such great presentation! I had to have it! I went home that day and started gathering up all of the old stuff I wasn’t using to take for the trade in value (which seemed a lot better back then). Needless to say I bought NFL 2k and a Dreamcast and played that game to death! Soooooo good! Here’s hoping for a return of the football king one day! NFL2K series rules😆

I might try to buy a Dreamcast so I can play the OG NFL 2K.

I would love to see you do retrospective videos about NFL Primetime 2002, NFL Fever 2004, and NFL GameDay 2004. I feel that when you look at those games combined with madden 2005 and NFL 2K5, the mid 2000s was the best Era for football gaming because you had a bunch of different studios putting out football games that are all much better than today's madden games.

I bought 2k5 thanks to your videos. Took a while for me to get the hang of it because I don’t usually play sports games or watch sports in general but boy is it satisfying when I successfully touchdown! Glad I subed to you and keep up the great work.

Madden 05 will always be my football simulation favorite, thank you for these videos, takes me back big time.

Love these retrospectives. I never played this particular one, but plenty of 2K1. Bought it again recently. It's still fun. Visual concepts knew what they were doing, improving each yr and gave us their magnum opus, 2K5. Wonder if you plan on doing something on the NFL fever series eventually. Those were cool

Love this channel! ✌🏻

Love your videos man. Your Apf 2k8 video got me really interested in playing it and I’ve been playing it for over a month now. Still can’t figure out the editor cuz I’m stupid af lmao. Keep making great content man all love

You do phenomenal coverage on this topic. Thanks for the great videos bro

It’s always a good day when SDTV posts a new video

quality video as always from SoftDrink. I wish 2k would make an other All Pro game with more legends and a franchise.

As always your videos are always on point. Unfortunately it's sad the pinnacle of sports gaming is behind us, hopefully things will change for the the better in the he next 5-7 years. Anyways, great video my guy. Cheers 🥃🥃

With the recent developments regarding the issues surrounding name, image, and likeness of college athletes, what are the odds that 2K makes an NCAA football simulation game in the future? I'd love to see that happen.

Great video as always. The 2k series will always be a favorite of mine. I can't stand Madden and EA for what they've done to football video games.

Keep up the great work soft drink

I love your videos, I'd love to see a breakdown of the Backyard sports games, childhood defined

Honestly the best NFL based football series ever made. I still enjoy it to this day.

I’m still waiting for the Sarasota Seamen to return

I got (and still have) the original NFL 2K for Dreamcast and it was incredible... But I'll never forget passing up on NFL 2K5 because I thought the $19.99 price tag meant it was crap - that it was cheap because it would literally be cheap. Turned out to be a game spoken of today like a legendary tale that the younger generation thinks was only a story.. It was real. It really happened... A masterpiece that was sold for $20 on the day it released. I hate EA. I hate that company so much.

Funny enough, my grandad recently moved into a retirement home, and since he had to move he gave away a bunch of his old stuff to my mom, one of the things he gave us was a Sega Dreamcast with a bunch of games, one of them being NFL 2k, tried it for the first time last week, game is fun and was ahead of it's time.

Thank you softdrink!

The physics in this game was phenomenal

Great video man hopefully 2k will have a quality nfl game out soon

This the best video ever made about this topic

This shit was my jam on my father's Dreamcast...

I wish the 2k football games were still being made to this day here. I loved the 2k football series!

10/10 video now all we need is the NHL 2K series and the 989 Sports series

This going to be another banger I can already tell

this was one of the first football games I ever played when my friend gave me his dreamcast. there is more attention to detail in a game from 1999 than there is in current madden and that is equal parts amazing and equal parts sad.

Great video!!

Countless hours of franchise mode with The Ravens, Vikings, Cowboys, and Tampa Bay as a kid...I wish we could go back to those years when we weren't just stuck with one Football title

I had 2k1 and that game is one of my favorites to this day

I remember like it was yesterday. Me and my friend were waiting for this game store to open. They had this demo in the window and me and my friend were just standing there in awe.

The first 2K football game I ever played was NFL 2K2 on the PS2, since I didn't have a dreamcast. It was a great game, and I thought it was much better than Madden 2002, though I did like both games. The gameplay was so fun in 2K2, and all of the 2K football games.

Nice video bro!

Also, you could pick your plays via the VMU on your controller and your opponent on the couch couldn't see

I remember seeing NFL2k in EB games window, and immediately buying a Dreamcast that moment. I was a beast with the Ravens. Then when 2K1 had online, just remember being able to chat in the lobbies. Miss those days...

I remember getting this game and a Dreamcast for Xmas it blew my mind that the game started to look like what I would see in real life.

i got dreamcast for xmas one of those years back in the day got 2k nfl and nba with that fire sonic game boi! one of the best gamer memories i have till this day

You know. Soft Drink, you make badass videos. I would have never been inspired to seek out my own copy of ESPN NFL 2k5 without your video on it. And I'll tell you, if you could take the foundation that 2k5 created for a legendary football game and apply modern day technological development advances, WOW. What could have been if the NFL actually cared about lending its name to a quality product.

Hey Mr. Drink, would you ever do a MLB or football/soccer game retrospective?

Relearning how to play the 2k series after 15 years of Madden crap was the most satisfying thing. It feels so great to have actual control in a video game

Man this is great. I miss the Dreamcast. Hopefully there's a Dreamcast mini in the near future with some great games on it.

I remember stayin in from school when this came out and spend all day playing this game.. I miss those days

Playing 2k football on my dreamcast was great fun. Shutting off pentalites and tackling the qb before the ball was hiked made my dad roar with laughter. I miss those days.

Dreamcast my favorite console so I appreciate this man thank you

That pass at :44 epic dude haha

I had both 2ks on Dreamcast in 7th grade. Used to get down on that crazy taxi too lol

Lots of all nighters in 1999-2000 playing the 2k series in college

Playing 2k5 resurrected on my laptop such a great feeling to play a football game, stopped playing madden in 11

My only frame of reference before this game was GameDay 99 on PS1. NFL 2K blew my mind as a kid when I first played it.

This is the game that got me into Football games. I remember being blown away by how great it looked and how fun to play it was.

I remember having my parents switch off coverage of the Septembver 11th attacks to play this. I was home sick that day.

NFL 2K...Still an outstanding game to this very day. I'll never forget when my pops rented this and NBA 2K during my 11th birthday in 2000 and being in awe of the outstanding gameplay in both games and the music in the NFL 2K game. The theme song still gets stuck in my head to this very day. I ended up getting these games later and I'm glad that I still have them (along with my Dreamcast). I do miss the NFL 2K series and I feel old telling youngsters that there was a such series.

This was one of my favorites. Couple of snacks, playing the dreamcast; good timed!!

I remember the first time I ever saw a promotion for nfl2k was in the previews before s movie. Seeing it on that huge screen I was blown away by what the graphics and gameplay looked like. I was only 16 at the time and at that moment I knew the Dreamcast was going to be the first console I ever purchased with my own money. Convieniently saw the promotion at a movie theatre at the mall, so as soon as the movie was over I went and put down a 5 dollar pre order hole on the Dreamcast at the kaybee hobby in the mall. Me and my friends spent countless hours playing this and NBA2k. This was also the first game I ever played on the internet, granted the 56k modem made it a laggy mess for me so I only tried it a few times.

The NFL has it's part in this football desert.

I still play 2k5. These so called pro madden players would lose every game. Can't cheat or keep running the same play on 2k5

The only game series where I could rack up over 100 tackles as a MLB because The control is so precise. In Madden you get sucked into so many animations it’s like you’re not even playing.

I first saw gameplay of this when my best friend at the time invited me to his cousins house, they had a Dreamcast and they were playing NFL 2K. It looked so damn real to me. I still didn't understand football that much, I was around 11, but I was interested in learning about football. Funnily enough, I learned everything about football by playing Madden 2003 and NFL 2K3. It became my favorite sport, and my favorite video games to play were football games.

I played this game 10 years ago for the 2011 NFL season. It was an awesome game. I was the Rams and the Titans in season mode.

Watching this game play out right now. Default settings, Colts v. Bears. Will be picking up all the 2k games for the Dreamcast .

nfl 2k games felt larger than life back then

I remember my cousin bought me sega Dreamcast and I got nfl 2k I was so In love with it

I hope you can do a video on the first NHL 2K game! And hopefully a retrospective on NHL 2K10.

People could always go back and play NFL2K But instead they settle for "Madden Elite 11"

I grew up on the 2k football games and remember getting DC 2k football. I was just floored with how the game felt, then 2k5 came out and it blew me away, and when APF 2k8 on PS3 came out i was like, man, I'm in heaven with this game play, no past Madden titles came or come close to it. I still own all 3 2k games mentioned here. I'm still looking for an NCAA zip file roster for APF 2k8 as i got an 1993 NY Giants roster and all teams from that year on the APF discord channel.

My friend had this game. I beat him when his long snapper shot the ball over the holder and my lineman ran in back for a td. I still have never seen that happen in madden.

It was fun you put the weather on they would give updates during the game

I remember when I got my dreamcast the Christmas of 99 and got this game power stone and sonic adventure I played all 3 games to death this NFL game was one I played for years and it still holds up compared to new madden games

First time I saw the players breathe on the "Frozen Tundra" I was hooked😍

Loved playing 2k on Dreamcast!!

NFL 2k was a game changer. The graphics, the game play and reality of the game was awesome. All pro 2k8 is a great game. I bought that game when it came out and told people that it was head and shoulders above Madden but no one would believe. I am glad I still have all pro 2k8

This was my first sports game and I still revisit it a couple times a month