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June 24, 2024 No Responses

Shufflepuck Café

Developer: Pony Canyon Publisher: Pony Canyon Release: 10/21/90 Genre: Action Air hockey is one of those things I have little experience with. There weren’t many places that had tables in my area surprisingly and I never did...

January 9, 2023 No Responses

Winter Games

Developer: Action Graphics Publisher: Acclaim Release: 09/87 Genre: Sports To this day I still remember my crushing disappointment with Winter Games. Fresh off of the NES port of Track and Field and the wild Summer I spent...

December 19, 2022 No Responses

WWF Wrestlemania

Developer: Rare Publisher: Acclaim Release: 02/89 Genre: Sports As an early adopter of the NES you eventually became use to disappointment. While the early years were full of wide eyed promise as games began to explore new genres eventually...

July 11, 2022 No Responses

Tecmo Bowl

Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Release: 02/89 Genre: Sports Sports games on the NES were usually of the arcade variety early on. That is probably the reason I was into them, the quick pick up and play aspect. I am...

August 17, 2020 No Responses

Blades of Steel

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 1988 Genre: Sports Believe it or not Blades of Steel was my introduction to Hockey. Growing up Hockey was not really shown on local television like the NFL or NBA so it always seemed...

June 10, 2020 No Responses

James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing

Developer: Taito Publisher: Sega Released: 1990 Genre: Sports Ah Sega, you crude bastards. It is no small exaggeration to say that Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out is still the most popular boxing game of all time. Nintendo absolutely nailed the ga...

April 15, 2019 No Responses

Track & Field II

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 03/89 Genre: Sports There are few games frustrate me as much as Track & Field II. I absolutely adore the original Track & Field despite its simplicity because it was easy to pick up...

December 31, 2018 3 Responses

Track & Field

If I had to trace my love of the occasional mini game collection it would probably come from Winter Games on the Commodore 64. The limited animation looked goofy as hell but if you could nail a triple somersault in...

October 15, 2018 2 Responses

Double Dribble

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 09/87 Genre: Sports I’m sure like many Double Dribble was one of the first Basketball games they every played. I am sure I might have played some random B-ball title on the Atari 2600...