5. Skate or Die
The “Tony Hawk” DNA was in here. But while there’s only so many combos you can do with two buttons and four directions, this game certainly did its best. Much like “Punch-Out,” this was more a game of patterns than creativity, but weren’t they all at this level?
4. Ring King
Whereas “Punch-Out” was more a game of pattern recognition, “Ring King” was actually a technical boxing game. With, you know, punching and stuff. It was the best of its kind up to that point, and actually enabled payers to move in the ring, something that “Punch-Out” hadn’t mastered.
3. Jordan vs. Bird
This game’s legacy is grounded more in the importance of the characters than it is in the actual quality of the game, but that doesn’t make it any less important looking back. The original computer game featured Dr. J and Bird, making it a huge deal when Jordan took over the reigns a few years later.
2. Baseball
Quickly eclipsed by R.B.I. because of the “real player” factor, this game actually did most of the heavy lifting for "R.B.I." in the early years for modeling its gameplay. A game shouldn’t get hung out to dry because it didn’t get license rights, so check this one out to see where the hit came from.
1. Tecmo Bowl
The gold standard for sports games. Painfully simple game play buoyed by real players whose in game performance mirrored fairly closely their actual skills on the field. Though, I’m pretty sure that Bo Jackson had blackmail fodder on the developers, as his player in the game was the most dominant video athlete in history.
The “Tony Hawk” DNA was in here. But while there’s only so many combos you can do with two buttons and four directions, this game certainly did its best. Much like “Punch-Out,” this was more a game of patterns than creativity, but weren’t they all at this level?
4. Ring King
Whereas “Punch-Out” was more a game of pattern recognition, “Ring King” was actually a technical boxing game. With, you know, punching and stuff. It was the best of its kind up to that point, and actually enabled payers to move in the ring, something that “Punch-Out” hadn’t mastered.
3. Jordan vs. Bird
This game’s legacy is grounded more in the importance of the characters than it is in the actual quality of the game, but that doesn’t make it any less important looking back. The original computer game featured Dr. J and Bird, making it a huge deal when Jordan took over the reigns a few years later.
2. Baseball
Quickly eclipsed by R.B.I. because of the “real player” factor, this game actually did most of the heavy lifting for "R.B.I." in the early years for modeling its gameplay. A game shouldn’t get hung out to dry because it didn’t get license rights, so check this one out to see where the hit came from.
1. Tecmo Bowl
The gold standard for sports games. Painfully simple game play buoyed by real players whose in game performance mirrored fairly closely their actual skills on the field. Though, I’m pretty sure that Bo Jackson had blackmail fodder on the developers, as his player in the game was the most dominant video athlete in history.
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