Played so much NBA vol 2 that Pete Rock beat is embedded in my memory. S tier game

All of the characters from Freekstyle are actually real professional freestyle motocross riders, and I met Mike Metzger (from the cover and intro) like 20 years ago at Disneyland. They were doing this action sports thing one summer, so they had a ton of professional athletes doing shows, including a young Shaun White! They held autograph sessions after every show, and Mike Metzger signed my copy of Freekstyle!

I love that you open your video with Rhazel's big booming "EA Sports Big" opening. Lots of mostly great memories came back to me as I watched your video, and although I played a significant role in many of the games and the creation of the brand, the best games got to be amazing because of so many talented, hard-working & passionate Producers, Engineers, Artists, Game Designers, Audio Designers, Testers and a wide variety of important collaborators who really added the spice to an already series of flavorful dishes. In looking back, we had to create the space where members of the team could take outlandish and unreasonable risks in order to deliver the unexpected. This is never an easy task in a big company, because many of the ideas don't work, but that sort of failure is essential on the journey to get to the really, really great stuff. I'm so proud I got to be a part of the BIG journey and was able to work with so many great people, for me, that's the juice. That, and having people that still feel passionately about these games 20 years later :)

I consider myself a gaming historian of this era and I didn't know EA Big was responsible for so many games! It's pretty fascinating stuff. The SSX series is also an all-time favorite of mine and those games so clearly had a special kind of love in them. Sometimes you can just tell when a game was made with passion and care, and those 3 main SSX games have it.

Freakstyle is one of best games ever!!! Really wished they made more. I was addicted to it when it came out

While I didn't play much of the BIG titles outside of SSX as a kid, they definitely had an impact for the brief time they were being released. EA sadly does have a track record of taking a talented studio and dissolving them however.

As a retro video game collector, and a kid who grew up in the mid PS2 era/PS3/early PS4 era, I never played theae growing up as I was never a sports fan. While I'm still not into sports, there's an appeal to these games. Finally playing them as an adult, the games are suited for a wider audience. Even though they're technically sports games, they play differently from regular sports games and feel more like an action game. Great video Evan!

Bro these games have a special place in my heart forever it’s so amazing seeing someone go into depth on these titles

I spent a good deal of my PS2’s life playing EA BIG games (mainly SSX, SSX Tricky, FIFA Street and NBA Street) so this video was another blast for me. Keep up the good work. Another entertaining and funny video.

So much nostalgia in one video. Also those cars do be driving.

Freekstyle was sick asf when I was younger. And the nba and nfl street series are classics

I think because your American and not interested in football you don’t understand how big fifa street was in Europe it was loved and a perfect game and at the time was the biggest game

Man the nostalgia hits with this one, I absolutely loved Fifa Street 2/3 and also played a lot NBA Homecourt.... sports games of my early teenage years

Fun Fact: Mario, Luigi & Peach Appeared In The GameCube Version Of SSX On Tour & NBA Street Vol 3.

Binged your vids recently after one popping in my recommended, keep it up man

I finally got around to watching this. Another fantastic video! I said it before and I'll say it again, SSX Tricky is the best out of all of those!

Totally forgot about sledstorm. Used to rent that one a lot when… renting games was a thing

I wore out two copies of SSX On Tour and still listen to the soundtrack

NBA Street was my introduction to Playstation 2 and i loved it adding in SSX NFL and DEF JAM games to the same console was like a dream come true that know one even knew they was dreaming, never played the FIFA games but aside from that i would love love LOVE to see a remaster of these AMAZING games! maybe not the last 3 racing games but the others are a needed in my life somehow someway EA!

Nfl Street 2 was my shiiiiiiitt, good times good times

That fuckin scarface fight still gives me that stereotype "gamer rage" The first 2 Def jam games are like visual adrenaline.

3:48 wdf I thought street home court was street volume 3 😂 been thinkin this for like 16 yrs

Dude i really like the format you're using for your videos. You give everything a twist of your own presence 👏

Subbed just for you shining light on these games nobody talks about anymore

Ssx3 was my child hood!!

Hey man I’m really glad to see your videos growing in popularity! You definitely deserve it! Keep it up!

The way you edit your videos always gets a couple really good laughs out of me lol

NFL Street 2 is probably my favorite game of all time. I played it so much as a kid.

I appreciate these videos so much 🙏🏾

Ssx3 was my top fav snowboard game

The EaSports Big titles are great games and I still have a few copies of the nba street titles and nfl street games. These games by ea sports big are still classics. Good video man and take care.

Shox is absolutely MIND blowing. It's speedy, electric and majorly fun. That zone racing bit makes it awesome

"Scarface wasted no time charging me, like I was his Iphone on 1% battery" 😄

I used to love playing Allen iverson and dunking on Shaq and yao Ming from half court

I played NBA street 3 into oblivion the Mario characters being there was just pure silliness

nba street 2 was my jam, loved that game to death 😍😍

Your game taste is epic! Instantly subbed

That's crazy, I saw your first video on SSX when it came out, subbed, and didn't see another video until now. Good video fun video long live SSX3

I remember playing the SSX demo a lot on one of those demo discs that you can get from gaming magazines back in the day. I still have those discs as well, but they're so badly scratched up now. Don't know why I never got the game back then, I actually enjoyed. Then again, there were too many games to choose from and my parents only get me one game every couple of months so I had to choose.

I remember being a kid at a videogame store trying to decide between NBA Street 2 or American Chopper The Videogame. I chose American Chopper and still think about that decision to this day

FIFA street was like my child hood in Argentina it had d tier teams from my hometown

Love the content, I feel like a video about Wakeboarding Unleashed would fit the style of content you make.

I have 1/3 of these games even with no system to play them. Just like to keep ‘em around.

It wasn't from EA BIG, but the NHL Hitz series was amazing too and i always lumped it in with these.

NFL Street to this day is the only NFL game id ever play

nice detective Conan music in the background. Great video idea looking foword to your next video

I remember downhill domination had the same feel, and man.. these games from that era just wow!

"Scarface wasted no time charging me. Like I was his IPhone at 1%." Bro how are you coming up with this?lmao

Def Jam games were great would love to see a modern take with some old school artists and characters as well.

EA Big were great but IMO nothing comes close to Midway in that era.. Between basically inventing arcade sports with NBA Jam and then NFL Blitz and then solidifying those titles with amazing follow ups. NHL Hitz 2002 is probably the best 3 player sports game ever made and I will die by that.

Nice vid dude! I had never heard of EA sports big, but this was an interesting story indeed. SSX is one of the best franchises imo

SSX Tricky was such a good game

It's sad that FIFA hadn't taken off in USA by this point, cos fifa street 2 was the best of all these games

I just discovered your channel and I can't seem to stop watching! Anyways, you seem like a fan of extreme sports games, have you ever played Downhill Domination? It's a mountain biking game made by the same studio that did Twisted Metal. It's a lot of fun and I think it'd be right up your alley.

Amazing video, my only critique is the lack of Def Jam: Fight For NY being covered. 100% one of the best fighting game ever. There is a reason it goes for $100+ now. Great video though!!

This video speaks to my soul

I don’t think I ever won a game against my cousin in street vol. 2 😂

Not incredibly detailed, but decently good quick summary of all the games of EA Sports BIG.

The 2000s was truly the golden era of video games.

I can't tell you how many hours I put into NFL Street 2. I was all about sports AND Xzibit at this time. They just don't make em like they used to.

Interesting timing, I just watched a video before this that was about EA sports and the SSX games. Spoopy.

They NEED to revive EA Big to make a new/remastered entry in basically all of their titles

DefJam fight for NY is also one of the best games in playstation history

Algo did me justice today. Awesome vid

Ssx on tour is an s tier game. I have to say that

Home court and v3 were so fun but not as good as the first 2!

Imagine if EA was like you know what boom!!!! Remastered EA Sports BIG games, no microtransactions just fun $30 games

When the timesplitter soundeffects play. We are reaching godly endorphine levels ❤❤ Also there was a earlier sledstorm game by EA on ps1 😊

like the vids keepit up

Can attest to sledstorm being freaking good! Or at least like 6 year old me can when this came out. It was weird because before that I had played sledstorm on PS1 and their very different games.

Got my first ps2 with ssx it was so fucking amazing back then it slapped cheeks like no other

NBA Vol 2 definitely had the most heart, but volume 3 was pretty good and had some fun additional stuff.

the only ssx game I played was on tour and I loved it

You got the sub from me keep up the great work

I loved def jam fight for newyork i remember i got so good at it i had a match that was only like 30 seconds and as a kid that made me feel like a g xD

I wonder if the non EA Big employees at regular EA just felt like they were EA Small or Medium. Gosh that must have been tough.

1:28 GTA:SA Orange 12 Ped

I'm still hoping we get the SSX, NFL and NBA franchise remastered. They're easy money grabs and actually more fun than today's disappointments. It's frustrating and shocking how EA hasn't started yet.

As soon as you said you'd dive in head first, I was hoping you'd do what you did

You should do a category of all the games from EA games. P.S. challenge everything.

I'll probably take the day off of work if you make a video on Def Jam FFNY! One if the beet fighting games ever lol

I need a new SSX in my life

def jam fight for new york is a all time great, i completed over 10 times when i was younger

i got all them games running on my xbox series s the whole series from fifa,nba,nfl,ssx, and def jam series using a ps2 emulator in dev mode

def jam vendetta Fight for NY was a litteral God game

The first Fifa street is absolute god tier

I didn't play all of the EA BIG games either. Although, as a teenager I mainly grew with two that I still adore, with a few others. For me those were NFL Street 1-2 and SSX 3. I also played both Def Jam's but I've never been a great player or huge fan of fighting games. SSX I originally started playing both the first and Tricky in McDonald's for a bit, until I later bought SSX 3 on GameCube a few years after. On the PlayStattion 2, I played all of the NFl Street. I tried Fifa 3, liked it, but not great, and also NBA Street V3 mostly after trying out the second. I just assumed V3 was improved, but idk, I like it. Ultimately though, I'm 29 today, and fucking loved SSX 3 and NFL Street 1-2. I played them again a few years ago and still cannot wait with hope that these franchises get remastered. Every other sports games pale in comparison. I've barely tried any since. SSX on Xbox 360 sucks. Steep and whatever next gen sucks. It's a damn shame.

nfl street was sooo goood

Poop Johnson. A legend.

NBA street vol 3 had the Beastie boys as playable characters

Brooo do a video on Blitz The League . Classic football game

7:22 lmao

My friends and I would play nfl street for hours

Incredible that EA sometimes makes good games. Shame they can, but refuse to do often

Fifa Street 2 and Dej Jam FFNW were the Shiit

great video very entertaining

nice

Happy 20th anniversary NFL street

They really need to bring EA BIIIIIG back, absolute bangers, SSX is one of the best franchises ever

Shox is one of the favourites