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Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:25 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
1.- Hypersports
2.- Daley Thompson's Decathlon
3.- Match Point
4.- Fernando Martín Basket Master
5.- World Series Baseball
Post yours!
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 10:54 pm
by shallymoo
My top 5 are:-
1. Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing.
2. Emlyn Hughes International Soccer.
3. Sports Hero.
4. Winter Games.
5. World Series Basketball.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:28 am
by Juan F. Ramirez
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Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:54 am
by R-Tape
They were never really my thing, but these are the ones I played & enjoyed:
Horace goes skiiing*
Daley Thompson's decathlon
Frank Bruno's boxing
Chequered flag
I loved the characters in the Daley and Frank games. Was never sure why Bluto managed to become a pro boxer.
*predictive text changed this to Horace goes Skiving!
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:07 pm
by qwitch
1. On the Bench - Football Management
2. World Series Baseball
3. Super Soccer
4. Daley Thompsons Decathlon (For nostalgia purposes, Daley Thompsons Super Test 128k was a better game).
5. Match Point
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:28 pm
by Ralf
My numer one would be Ping-Pong from Imagine. Incredibly playable with some great beeper tune and cool effect of cheering crowd.
I also like Geoff Capes Strong Man. Probably many people would say that it's nothing special but it's very unique somehow I found clicking on different muscles very entertaining
Winter Games is also very good, with pretty graphics, especially backgrounds.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:00 pm
by Morkin
1- Hypersports
2 - Match Point
3 - World Series Baseball
4 - Ping Pong
5 - Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
(Am liking the love for World Series Baseball BTW)
Close but no cigar:
Daley Thompson's Super Test
Match Day II
Jonah Barrington's Squash
Honourable mention:
Jack Charlton's Match Fishing
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:53 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Ralf wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2017 12:28 pm
Winter Games is also very good, with pretty graphics, especially backgrounds.
I read somewhere that F. David Thorpe (author of many great loading screens) was the author of both the loading screen and those backgrounds, not very common these days.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:57 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Morkin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:00 pm
(Am liking the love for World Series Baseball BTW)
Me too! Back in the day I have no idea about that boring american game. Playing it I could learn most rules of it.
Morkin wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:00 pm
Jonah Barrington's Squash
Great game, but for me it's always been bloody difficult to control the player.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 11:21 am
by Morkin
Yep, I think I learned the rules of baseball from playing WSB.
JBS is a bit jerky & sluggish compared to say, Match Point, which is why it doesn't make my top 5, but I quite enjoyed it anyway
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:06 pm
by Andre Leao
1. Formula One (CRL)
2. Football Director 2 player league
3. Match Day 2
4. World Series Basketball
5. Ping Pong
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:22 pm
by Morkin
Gah - forgot about Formula One..
Can I change my answers..?
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 3:37 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Morkin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:22 pm
Gah - forgot about Formula One..
Can I change my answers..?
Yep, the special offer goes on today!
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 6:06 pm
by Mike Davies
- Premier League (SU megatape 15)
- Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix
- Match Point
- Supersoccer
- Peter Shilton's Handball Maradonna
I really wanted to like Hardball, but I just don't get on with it. It's impossible to play.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:55 pm
by Stefan
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:16 am
by Rorthron
This thread has reminded me how much I disliked sport games on the Speccy. Xeno, Match Point and Horace Goes Skiing (hardly counts) are, I think, the only ones I could ever stand.
I especially hated Match Day, but that might be because I can still rember Morkin beating me 96-1! (My goal came from a direct throw.)
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:42 am
by R-Tape
Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:16 am
I especially hated Match Day, but that might be because I can still rember Morkin beating me 96-1! (My goal came from a direct throw.)
Was it 'cos he gave you a deadarm?
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:50 am
by Dark
1. Match Day 2
2. Footballer of the Year
3. Football Manager
4. Nigel Mansell’s Grand Prix
5. Jet Bike Simulator
I was tempted to include World Games, as I remember playing it a lot, but decided it wasn’t actually good enough to merit a top five place. In fact I don’t think it would make my top ten sports games, so I am not sure why I have such fond memories of it.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:06 pm
by Morkin
Rorthron wrote: ↑Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:16 am
I especially hated Match Day, but that might be because I can still rember Morkin beating me 96-1! (My goal came from a direct throw.)
I should have called for a video replay...
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 1:09 pm
by Mike Davies
Oh man, how could I have forgotten Xeno. Love that.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 2:24 pm
by Juan F. Ramirez
Yep, Xeno was surprisingly cool. A very funny game.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:01 pm
by PeteProdge
1.
Kikstart 2 Stone cold classic, lots of life in this thanks to the course designer and the computer player (or 2nd human player, if you so wish).
2.
ATV Simulator Pretty damned good.
3.
Emlyn Hughes's International Soccer Best football game on the Speccy.
4.
WEC Le Mans Astonished at the speed of this, oh, what Out Run could have been.
5.
Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road Pretty magnificent.
Re: Your top-5 sports games
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 10:58 pm
by Mike Davies
Mike Davies wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2017 6:06 pm
- Premier League (SU megatape 15)
- Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix
- Match Point
- Supersoccer
- Peter Shilton's Handball Maradonna
So I forgot Xeno, and unforgivably, Bobsleigh. That certainly needs redressing:
- Bobsleigh
- Xeno
- Premier League (SU megatape 15)
- Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix
- Match Point
Bobsleigh is probably the first sports game that made me more interested in the real thing. Now with the Winter Olympics going on, the sliding events are my favourites... except for 2-man luge, you know, 2 Men 1 Luge, who came up with that one???