My Top 10 Sega Genesis Sports Games

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I consider sports gaming to be an important part of my love for the hobby. Here are 10 games for the Sega Genesis I really enjoyed.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured via the Mega SG.
2. Games that just missed the Top 10 are WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game, College Football Championship II, and the Mutant League series of games.
3. I omitted motorsports from the running here because I want to do a separate list for those games.
4. As much as I loved WWF Royal Rumble and RAW, I despised Super Wrestlemania. The gameplay was slow, the graphics were dark and it was well short on modes.
5. Madden would actually be without the NFL license for its first 3 games. It wasn't until Madden 94 that we finally got official teams.
6. I never could get into the "VS" games that EA did for the NBA. They just didn't play well.
7. The World Series Baseball games by Sega were good, but I actually like the style of Sports Talk Baseball more. I kinda wish they had stuck with that.
8. I did enjoy a few of the hockey games on the Saturn. Back on the Genesis though, the only one I gave any real time to was Mutant League Hockey.

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@ericjames19 3 жыл бұрын

"While old sports games tend to be dismissed by many in retro gaming. You'll get no nonsense here." You're speaking to my heart Sega Lord X

@JohnnyCboxes 4 ай бұрын

Yes! Loved that callout

@webinatic216 3 жыл бұрын

"These are my personal preferences and opinions" That's why we are here.

@johnr4836 3 жыл бұрын

soon opinions will be banned

@GreplayTv 2 ай бұрын

@@johnr4836yes !!!

@GreplayTv 2 ай бұрын

@@johnr4836after opinions censorship next in line is putting people in jail for expressing their opinions, after that next in line is killing people's and mass Graves, I live in ex communist country, I know how it is

@johnr4836 2 ай бұрын

@@GreplayTv funny 3 ye ago I said that now days they're trying to

@DaveB038 3 жыл бұрын

Props for doing a sports episode. One thing I love about retro collecting is that I love sports and racing games and they are often cheap.

@sethsassy 3 жыл бұрын

The local goodwill had every ps2 madden and ncaa march madness for a buck each last week, now I have them.

@volkte37 3 жыл бұрын

Same. I have tons on SNES, PS1 and PS2. Often forgotten.

@stephenthomas9256 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I love the fact of just going back in time and seeing my favorite team as I saw them as a kid lol Barry Sanders!😭🤣

@Sitharii 3 жыл бұрын

NBA LIVE '95 & especially *NBA LIVE '96* were the 2 MegaDrive sport games that i've spent literally thousands of hours playing against my brother. We even had a notebook exclusively for writing down the results from our matches as an historical archive !!! We were writing who won , what was the score , who was the top scorer of the match , our players shooting % ratio , etc ... Never again since then have i played a sport game with such devotion.

@larrym5120 3 жыл бұрын

When I was in the Air Force we used to have NHL 94 tournaments in the barracks. Sometimes we played Madden 93. I used to rent NBA Live 95 and almost every other weekend I would rent Arnold Palmer Golf from the local video store. Good times.

@Dagasm 3 жыл бұрын

NHL '94, Madden '93, and World Series Baseball were my favorites on the Genesis.

@PJBonoVox 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah man. How the heck NHL 94 didn't make this list is beyond me. And I'm from the UK :)

@mikec8969 3 жыл бұрын

Madden 93 is still one of my favorite Maddens

@billcook4768 3 жыл бұрын

A friend and I shared a Genesis back in the day and played the hell out of it without ever playing a platformer, arcade game or RPG. It was all Joe Montana, Tommy Lassorda, NHLPA Hockey, etc. To me, the Genesis was a sports game machine. It wasn’t until the Smash Pack on the Dreamcast that I finally played Sonic, Golden Axe etc. and realized how much more there was to the Genesis library.

@chrisw8069 3 жыл бұрын

Ouch that "compilation" had horrible emulation quality...

@drunkensailor112 3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisw8069 only the sound sucked

@chrisw8069 3 жыл бұрын

@@drunkensailor112 yeah, nope

@Karateka1973 3 жыл бұрын

This brought back some fond memories. Fortunately I still have my original Genesis which was purchased in 1993 and still works great. I still have several of my favorite sports games and play them from time to time. My Top 10 Sport Faves are as follows: 10. Mutant League Football 9. PGA Tour III 8. Rugby World Cup 95 7. ATP Tour Tennis 6. NBA JAM TE* 5. Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing 4. World Series Baseball 94* 3. NFL Football 94 Starring Joe Montana* 2. NHL97* 1. Triple Play Gold* All the titles with asterisks are carts of which I still have from when they were brand new and still work. I love the Genesis Triple Play games for the depth they brought to console baseball games, but hated what they became during the PC version years. The same is true for NHL.

@evilash570 3 жыл бұрын

In Canada, NHL-NHL94, were the greatest sports games ever, followed by Evander Holyfields real deal boxing and World Series Baseball.

@rafikix1152 2 жыл бұрын

94 was so overrated. I honestly hate how much people love that game. Hahahaha. 93, 95, and 96 are all better. 94 took out fighting and the blood. I really have nonidea why people love that one so much

@thegreatone9923 Жыл бұрын

@@rafikix1152 nhl 94 had fighting it was 95 that took it out

@rafikix1152 Жыл бұрын

@@thegreatone9923 nope. NHL 94 did not have fighting. They took it out in 94 and 95 then brought it back for 96, 97. If you are referring to the movie Swingers they are playing 93 while discussing 94. I promise

@rafikix1152 Жыл бұрын

@@thegreatone9923 that's how EA got the licensing deal. The NHL said we won't give you the player/team names unless you take out fighting.

@MaxAbramson3 Жыл бұрын

NHL 94 Genesis had sent their carts out for print in Japan too late. The Sega CD version is better, but lost the fighting.

@bobbysingh7386 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite was Brian Lara Cricket. It was a huge deal back then to have all the players scoring/record algorithm on the scoreboard and their respective attributes

@Shadow962775 3 жыл бұрын

Sega Lord X and the Genesis really helped open my mind about sports games.

@RetroEmpireDefend Ай бұрын

Sports games were arguably one of the biggest selling points of the Genesis back then. Great Video.

@mattheinrich4792 3 жыл бұрын

LUVSTOSPOOGE in the doubles match is a nice touch. Lol

@cityside75 3 жыл бұрын

Now I need to know if "Dick Steptoe" in Holyfield boxing is really in the game or an SLX creation ;)

@penismightier9278 3 жыл бұрын

@@cityside75 I know I'd avoid him. I was wondering if anybody else caught that one.

@_NoDrinkTheBleach 4 ай бұрын

@@cityside75 Time warp reply, absolutely Dick Steptoe is one of the first opponents in the career mode. The majority of the roster is a near Fighting Baseball level of silly. Razor Robbins, Ice Ian, Rob Hemphill, Hot Rod Nils, Hunk Hughes, Joe Steinman, Michael Lamb, Jim Kahn, Jeff Godfrey, B.J Higgins, Dane King, Dave Stevis, Slo Mo Jones, Big Bob Jacob, J.D Leforge, Wildman West, Red Mclane, Carl Coolman, Jim Jo Bone, E.Z Ray, Kent Goad, Pat Grinder, Chuck Wayne, Dynamite Don, Dick Steptoe, Mick Llonigan

@Des_Zee 3 жыл бұрын

Holyfield boxing was the shiznit. "Stop the fight!!"🤣🤣

@thaantagonystakaflyfatboyf7091 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sega lord x in igniting my new desire to collect retro sports games! The sports games on Genesis were so fun!

@JetFire0422 3 жыл бұрын

I think NFL '94 is my most played sports game. I love it

@maiers 3 жыл бұрын

Mandatory comment to apease the engagement algorithm. Thanks for your hard work mate

@brianparent4023 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first video of yours that I’ve really sat down and watched. This is exactly the type of content I’m looking for. Good work.

@jeffk.9075 3 жыл бұрын

NBA Jam was such a fun game. I miss it still.

@DenkyManner 3 жыл бұрын

You can still play it

@Rationalific 3 жыл бұрын

I especially liked to secrets such as "big head mode".

@Rationalific 3 жыл бұрын

@@DenkyManner Translation (which is pretty obvious to most): He is nostalgic for that time. Also, there are no great new games being made that are like it.

@shaggyd9431 3 жыл бұрын

NBA JAM: on fire edition

@brianparent4023 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah im a pretty big fan and someone I never knew that NBA Hang Time was essentially NBA Jam 3

@Dangic23 3 жыл бұрын

So many memories with my house full of friends, sometimes over 15....playing original Madden, Tommy Lasorda, Pat Reilly, Lakers vs Celtics, Bulls vs Lakers. We had tournaments, with money pots for top 3. Best time of our lives!!!!!! High school years.

@samuraibeastwarrior2886 3 жыл бұрын

NBA Action 94

@Dangic23 3 жыл бұрын

@@samuraibeastwarrior2886 I was already in College by then....and less time for games......until PS1 came out....lol. NBA in the Zone was a hit in my neighborhood....and I was the only one with a PS1 at release day.

@samuraibeastwarrior2886 3 жыл бұрын

@@Dangic23 ok

@dexocube 3 жыл бұрын

My faves are NHLPA Hockey, which did get a release in the UK, John Madden, NBA Jam and PGA Golf. My uncle was to blame for that last one. He told me he'd bought a golf game and I sniggered up my sleeve. Who would want to play a game of golf on the megadrive? But when we sat down to play it, oh lord I saw the light.

@bonesjackson81 3 жыл бұрын

Mutant League Football and Hockey tied for my #1. Can't believe at least one didn't make the list. 🤯 blown. Sports Talk Baseball is probably my #2. Great port of the arcade game Clutch Hitter. 3 Greatest Heavyweights.

@retrogamaniac3673 3 жыл бұрын

@10:45 I wished 2020 had to be like this, instead of the 2020 that we got in reality....

@patrickbrooks7435 3 жыл бұрын

Minus the pandemic.

@TheCockmeister Жыл бұрын

NHL 94...Madden 94...FIFA 95... Bill Walsh college football .... NBA LIve all quality games which I owned on my Megadrive which is what the Genesis was known by here in the UK 🇬🇧. A great video...I loved this trip down memory lane back to the great sporting 16bit days !. Thank you!

@TheMusicalStylingsofBrentBunn 7 ай бұрын

This really changes my perspective on old sports games. My local game shop always has a million Sega Genesis sports titles that never seem to sell, so maybe I'll keep an eye out for some of these.

@TheMancRetroGamer 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. I tried the American football games as a kid but didn’t really understand them due to living in England so was more into the FIFA Soccer games back then and I played that International Superstar Soccer too and loved it. WWF Royal Rumble was awesome as well and had it both for the SNES and Sega Mega Drive. Loved how you added the Hulk Hogan theme soundtrack near the end. 👏🏻

@BJWanlund 3 жыл бұрын

Nice. Always good to see an episode on sports games. I’d love to see more of these videos about sports games! And not just for the Genesis either!

@piper2381 3 жыл бұрын

I was a Sega kid and I mostly only played sports games because my friends would usually come to my house to play. For me my favourites were: NHL 94 , FIFA 94, NBA Jam and of course WWF games.

@tommybahama9350 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t even like sports games but your nostalgia is so pure

@noaht2005 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, his passion for the hobby and systems is inspiring

@juststatedtheobvious9633 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I love learning about sports games, even if I don't actually play them. They pushed system limits - and the limits of storage media - all the way through the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era. And the competition between rivals was often a better story than the sports themselves.

@josephferrel3413 3 жыл бұрын

Played Montana so much. Holds special place with me as well

@ironclad8093 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing a sports episode. I remember AVGN saying something like "if you have one baseball game why do you need to have so many others?" when talking about more variety of sports titles on Genesis vs. SNES. It's not that simple! Sports are incredibly hard to get right because they're based on physics and reality, that's why a good sports game really stands out and most flop.

@ronsilk6212 3 жыл бұрын

Aw man my brother and our friends used to have epic tournaments with NHL 94 amd PGA 3. Those were great times. They have all passed away since then but i treasure those memories.

@TheMultiGunMan 3 жыл бұрын

Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf is my favorite sports game on the Genesis. It's also in my top 3 favorite Genesis games of all time.

@brentgranger7856 3 жыл бұрын

I much preferred “Joe Montana NFL Sportstalk Football ‘94” due to the awful passing game in ‘93, which was fixed in ‘94. I sometimes find myself calling real (American) football games with the announcer’s voice. It’s archaic by today’s standard, but I still love this classic.

@maxadocious 3 жыл бұрын

Joe Montana sports talk football was so sick. also, nice editorial at the end; simulation is so limiting! SLX always warms the old heart

@mercster 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sega Lord! Your output is awesome!

@derekbuckler3859 3 жыл бұрын

Ive always loved the PGA tour series, which me and my father used to play together. Then there's the bulls vs blazers series, also loved tommy lasorda basball. Sega and EA combined were a force to be reckoned with on the genesis, still is to this day

@darinherrick9224 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate so much that your channel and sites like Racketboy finally break down what the best sports games. When there's 20 versions of Madden it's great to know which are the ones actually worth owning.

@RoyAlWhicheez 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't see this one coming at all 👏👏 well done as usual my man

@awesome6323 3 жыл бұрын

If you want Bonestorm and all you get is Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

@matthewhall6288 3 жыл бұрын

"You have selected..."'no'".

@OneLovePsych 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE that you love golf games so much, golf is where it’s at!

@DarDarBinks1986 3 жыл бұрын

As a kid, I played Charles Barkley's Shut Up and Jam and this one Tiny Toon Adventures sports game that had soccer and basketball on it. There was also one of the WWF games. As for NBA Hangtime, I only played the N64 version. I didn't even know it was ported to the Genesis until now.

@reedr7142 5 ай бұрын

You do a wonderful job of explaining your rationale, as well as properly expressing an opinion (a lot of videos express opinion as someone everyone else should either accept or oppose). You state it as nothing more than your own. I remember playing an amazing golf game where one of the options was to select super ceramic golf clubs, which were the best choice for that game. I also remember an amazing baseball game where you had three stadiums to choose from, with incredible game play. I will always love original NHL Hockey and Madden. Couldn’t get enough of those games in the early 90’s.

@jonathankulesa 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic list of games... You are absolutely killin it my man!... ✊❤

@bluefox9er 5 ай бұрын

We never realised how good we had it as sports gamers. Now literally every game is an RPG

@bmwolgas 3 жыл бұрын

NFL Football 94 was by far the game me and the neighborhood kids played on rainy days back in the mid 90s.

@philmason9653 3 жыл бұрын

Great list, I hadn't seen some of those before, like Super Baseball 2020 (a year which actually probably could have used robot players). The player animation on PGA III is really impressive as well.

@detectingretro6313 3 жыл бұрын

Loved those 3D Fly-bys

@Cafeman_2D 3 жыл бұрын

Montana engine and commenting technology was impressive.

@battpaste3475 3 жыл бұрын

Never was a sports fella, though NBA JAM and the Mutant League series was fun as hell!

@thomastripp9002 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding episode!!!! I grew up with a SNES (which had a fair share of solid sports games - Griffey, Super Tennis, NBA Give N Go, NCAA Basketball, etc.), but the Genesis was where it was for sports!!! While sports games will never be as legendary as Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, etc., I find them fun to play (from the NES-PS2)...Some of my favorites on the Genesis are: NBA Jam NBA Jam Tournament Edition NBA Action 94 NFL 94 feat. Joe Montana Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars Madden series NHL series NBA Live series College Slam Tecmo Super Bowl series Tecmo Super NBA Basketball 2020 Super Baseball Coach K College Basketball (still kinda irks me that UNC isn’t in the game as an NC native) ATP Tour Championship Tennis Greatest Heavyweights Sports Talk Baseball World Series Baseball

@Rationalific 3 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how spot-on the predictions of Super Baseball 2020 were. I mean, an empty stand devoid of humans. Not one human around to infect another. Wow. (By the way, I am one of those NHL '94 guys, though I played some others on this list. I wasn't particularly into sports games, as I have never been really into sports, but I played the heck out of NHL '94...which I felt was better than '95, and it seems that others agree.)

@teknomax7883 3 жыл бұрын

As an Argentinian, we played the sh*t outta I. S. S. S. Deluxe. I almost screamed when I heard that classic "he shoots... YES. GOOOOOAAAL!!!" My friend were a lot more into sports than me, but I've always enjoyed a title here and there. I'm always at wonder on how sorts games are a lot different nowadays. Nowhere near as fun or original. Or varied. Except indie games, of course.

@dvforever 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 90K subscribers! Here's to 100K up next! ( I was here when this channel had only 8K subs. Great growth! )

@theeRetroRhino 2 жыл бұрын

Love SEGA Genesis for all the great sports titles. Thank you for doing this video. I’ve been back to re watch this video many times.

@Level7Media 3 ай бұрын

Super Baseball 2020, and Sports Talk Football 93 have always been some of my favorite. I love sport games on the Genesis.

@geesterfunk 3 жыл бұрын

Ah the good old days when EA where harmless, reminds me of that line from Tron about the MCP starting life as a harmless chess program

@Digiflower5 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not really into sports games, but I enjoy your content so im here. ^^

@baldwinfilion6087 3 жыл бұрын

Very very nice video. Now i must re start continue my collection. Lol.

@bigballrecall 3 жыл бұрын

World Championship Soccer 2, NBA Jam TE, Mutant League Football, and World Series Baseball

@33Dannyb 3 жыл бұрын

I love your channel man.

@happyspaceinvader508 2 жыл бұрын

John Madden Football is the game that made me an English fan of American Football, having never previously watched it nor the slightest clue as to how it's played. The manual that came with the game had probably the best description of the rules for a novice.

@Tazzer88 5 ай бұрын

Growing up with my Genesis I played lots of RBI Baseball 4, mainly because it used the MLB from the 1991 season where my sports hero Cal Ripken Jr. won MVP of the league. Nothing like going into home run derby mode as Cal, setting the park to Kauffman Stadium and hitting moonshots into the digital waterfalls in the outfield!

@_NoDrinkTheBleach 4 ай бұрын

NFL Football 94 was the last real new title that I played with my dad back in the day. He decided that games were a little too complicated once the 32-bit generation came around. So I've definitely got some deep rooted nostalgia for Sports Talk 93, as we played both that and 94. WWF Royal Rumble might be my most played game with my friends on the Genesis. It was the closest we could get to the button mashing fun of Wrestlefest, while having fresh enough rosters to feel somewhat current to what we'd see on TV. World Series Baseball was likely my most played solo sports title on the Genesis. I was super into baseball back then, and having the real teams, players, and stadiums represented was welcome, along with a fun game engine under the hood. I think Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing was the catalyst for my getting a Genesis. A friend of mine rented it, and the graphics and presentation were an absolute game changer for me.

@dauntae24 3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t watch hockey as a kid but I still owned NHL. I love that game.

@AtilaJoly 3 жыл бұрын

I honestly think it was the first time I heard an American person referring to American football as 'American football', as we all do in the rest of the world, haha!

@elciclon23 3 жыл бұрын

He usually does it. I cherish that by the way

@vuetoob3983 3 жыл бұрын

He is next level woke

@Shadow962775 3 жыл бұрын

@Pro Tengu Yeah, some of us code switch like that: "football" when talking to Americans, and "American fottball" when talking to non-Americans.

@JeffYPbPr 3 жыл бұрын

When I first got my my model 2 genesis as a kid...the first 2 games were sonic 2 and....madden baby. Everyone forgets that madden used to have live highlights of other games after your game. It was so cool as a kid and made it feel like a tv presentation.

@habsaremylife1387 Жыл бұрын

I agree with the list 100% and I love your content I just subscribed

@travisolson9413 3 жыл бұрын

I bought a Genesis to play Lakers VS Celtics. Slow as molasses but I loved it. I eventually upgraded to NBA Live 95. Mind blown. Now it would look pedestrian, but I might dust it off and give it a spin! Great video as always!!!!

@michaeljoseph9390 3 жыл бұрын

NHL ‘94 is one of the top ten best sports games on any console.

@malcolmar 3 жыл бұрын

Again, well done and thanks for showing sports games some love. There are really some great quality games here. I also agree with you 100% about modern sports games loosing their creativity. Another reason why I love being a retro gamer. I definitely see some games I have to add to my collection. Also another reason why I love physical media which allows me be be able to find these games, put them in the Genesis and play them, no update or internet connection required.

@oscarzxn4067 3 жыл бұрын

ISS Deluxe was extremely popular in Latin America for the Super Nintendo, since that's the most popular sport here by a lot and the game was actually localized for that console unlike the Genesis, Brazil aside

@skins4thewin 3 жыл бұрын

I just remember the "Yo!" on the title screen of Sports Talk Football as a kid lol. Me & my friends loved that for whatever reason. We were easily amused back then.

@darklordojeda Жыл бұрын

PGA Tour Golf, wow that was an amazing game. I never got to play the Fifa soccer game featured here but I did have EA Sports FIFA International Soccer 96, loved it. Royal Rumble was my favorite game outright for a while when I was a kid. Great memories and I agree with a lot of your choices here.

@bloodykenshiro8218 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool list. The Mega Drive was blessed with a.lot of quality sports games. I'm a Baseball person so seeing 2020 Super Baseball on the list made me smile; would have been nice to see one of the later RBI games on the list though.

@roberto1519 3 жыл бұрын

Here in Brazil, FIFA 95 was the soccer game everyone was playing, on the SNES it was International Superstar Soccer Deluxe sometime later.

@silentfanatic 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, that classic, twangy Genesis music during the title card of this episode. Makes me feel at home.

@Slapped 2 жыл бұрын

Did not expect Joe Montana sports talk football at number 1. Had that game as a kid, but always preferred Madden 94 and Bill Walsh College Football. I did like doing snow games tho, hearing the announcer say it’s beginning to snow on the 2nd play of the game with the field already covered was funny to me

@JasonMontell2501 3 жыл бұрын

Gawd I love this channel Like.. really.. really love this channel

@NostalgiaForever100 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video! Thank you 👍

@DDRPriest 3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping to see Pat Riley Basketball in some capacity. Glad to see it made it at the very end. Those close up angles of the action were so cool. It might not have been the best basketball game, but it was the one I played the most.

@cityside75 3 жыл бұрын

Sports games were arguably one category where the Genesis never was surpassed by the SNES. I had an SNES back in the day and used to really enjoy Madden 94 and NHL 94 (which was one of my favorite games of the era). Years later when I got into collecting and got the Genesis versions of these games, it was quite apparent that they were superior on that platform. The scrolling was smoother, the action faster and the higher resolution graphics really helped with the small players and numbers/letters. These days when I get an urge to play some NHL 94 I automatically go to the Genesis. Great video, by the way!!

@McDaniel77 3 жыл бұрын

We had lots of fun with the first FiFa, Madden and NHL that came out, NBA Jam of course, very cool moment was to break the glass with a dunk. Thanks to you, I will try Tecmo Bowl. 🕹️

@elbitxo5945 3 жыл бұрын

My personal favourite is NBA Live 96, closely followed by Sensible Soccer. When I discovered as a kid, fooling around with a friend on the player editor, you can unlock legends like Abdul-Jabbar, Dr J, Larry Bird... it was pure magic. I remember even checking the Guinness World Records book looking for the greatest players (we didn't know that much about NBA back then in Europe). I played ISS Deluxe quite a lot also, but on the SNES, what a fantastic game regarding if you like the sport or not.

@fabioregina135 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from Europe, and despite "soccer" is not my piece of cake it's part of our culture, kind of... Super kudos to you to have mentioned IssDeluxe. Must be more difficult for an American to appreciate "soccer" games, like for us your "football". But you picked up the very best of the 16bit era. So many memories with that game. Did you know there's a code to have dogs instead of the referees? ;D Well done again Sglx!

@n0isyturtle 3 жыл бұрын

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that John Madden is even still alive despite looking like a boiled potato for the past 25 years?

@rustyshackleford7265 3 жыл бұрын

No kidding

@ironclad8093 3 жыл бұрын

I remember one time in the late 90s/early 2000s my friend said "what is EA going to do if he dies? He's clearly not going to be around much longer!"

@rodimuspm 2 жыл бұрын

R.i.p. John madden

@Realistic316 2 жыл бұрын

well, he just got mashed

@wessteinfeld3337 Жыл бұрын

John Madden is DONE!!! DEAD! You think fanz would be happy considering the pressure for Madden 23 to be FIRE... AAAAAAAND IT SUCKS AWHOLE!!!

@crash5522 3 жыл бұрын

I would have added speedball 2 to this list and I was thrilled to see hang time on your list

@MikeC-ps1tc 3 жыл бұрын

A SOLID choice of games. Sports Talk 93 would have been my top choice. Greatest Heavy Weights 2nd. NBA Jame TE 3. NHL 94 4. Those 4 games ate up a TON of time!

@menhirmike 3 жыл бұрын

International Superstar Soccer (which was later renamed to Pro Evolution Soccer) was truly one of the greats, and the Nintendo 64 game (ISS64) was on a level with Mario 64 or Turok on the "This console is awesome!".

@drunkensailor112 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't renamed pro Evo. It was always iss until the game failed with both iss games on gamecube. Pro Evo by that time was already a different and new football game made by a different studio.

@menhirmike 3 жыл бұрын

@@drunkensailor112 Good call, I stand corrected since I thought that ISS was the western title for Winning Eleven, but it was Jikkyō Soccer. Though International Superstar Soccer Pro on the PS1 is indeed a Winning Eleven/Pro Evo game - that's a confusing lineage.

@woodslionell83 4 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see this..

@stevesteve0521 3 жыл бұрын

Nba jam tournament, tecmo nba basketball, madden 95, mutant league football, nhl 94, nhl 95, wwf wrestlemania arcade, tommy lasorda baseball, fifa 96, Saturday night slam masters will be my top ten

@mikec8969 3 жыл бұрын

Since I'm a huge sports fan and played sports games religiously on the Genesis here's my top 10: 1. NHL 94 2. Madden 93 3. Super Baseball 2020 4. Greatest Heavyweights 5. Jeopardy Sports Edition 6. Mutant League Football 7. Coach K College Basketball 8. NBA Live 96 9. Rugby World Cup 95 10. Fifa 95 Other Maddens and NHL games were awesome but I limited myself to one per series

@vicchopin 3 жыл бұрын

gosh so many content so little time wonder how you can handle this mr. sega lord X...! amazing!!

@GeorgeNadaYT 2 жыл бұрын

Joe Montana Football 93 was also my favorite!👍 I was addicted to it. I'd wake up early before the NFL games started and get a couple of games in. Then I'd return to playing it after NFL games finished on TV. It was far superior than Madden in my book.

@GaggleofDoozies 3 жыл бұрын

Great list.......especially #2 and #1. 👍

@ricardomauricioaraya7625 3 жыл бұрын

I love sports games, especially in that era. I have at least one of baseball, basketball, football, futbol and hockey on my Genesis. NFL Football '94 is one of my favorites, and I'm a latino guy that loves futbol above any other sport. WWF games were great too, at a time when the actual product was decent. And ISS Deluxe, I got it in Chile bootlegged (I did not know that was the case back then), and even though it's not as good as the SNES version, I still played the crap out of it.

@robbvanderstoel7725 3 жыл бұрын

My best friend is a sports fan and we each had a Genesis. He’s the only reason I played sports games and I learned most of the rules to most sports from them.

@djstyles97 3 жыл бұрын

Great list... Definitely agree with the top 2. The only one I don't agree with was NBA Hangtime. Just think that game was too late and most were already NBA Jam'd out. David Robinson's Supreme Court was my go to on the Genesis until NBA Live 95 changed video game basketball at home forever.

@caseyhayes4590 3 жыл бұрын

NBA Live was a huge step up for EA's basketball, the stuff before was kind of dreadful, their "vs" games are the kind of 16-bit sports games that need to be avoided and forgotten while games in this video get discovered in bargain bins as hidden gems. My roommate got really into NBA Live 99 on PS1 the same year I got NBA 2K on Dreamcast so we kind of got sucked into battling franchises. I could tell how the simulation of Live 99 was more accurate than 2K but 2K's graphics at the time seemed like a multi-generation jump.

@Marc_Araujo 10 ай бұрын

I really like the 1995 season as that year had my favorite entries in EA Sports' series on the Genesis: NBA Live 95, Madden NFL 95, NHL 95, and FIFA Soccer 95 (the first FIFA game to include club teams from Europe and South America) were all awesome.