Let’s get it out of the way right now without any setup: QB Eagles is the single greatest sports video game athletes of all time. Unquestionably, there are some who will question the very validity of this final post in the series as this regulates the twin faces of outstanding sports video game athletes, Bo [...]
As stated in the early chapters of this little-series-that- could, Gamebreakers can fall into any one of three categories: Offensive, Defensive, and Showtimer. Until this point, only The Fat Guy and The San Francisco 49ers oozed enough pimp juice to glide into multiple categories. However, its the dynamo on skates known as Jeremy Roenick who [...]
If you were to take Pete, Joe, Hank and the rest of the American Dreams‘ starting nine, toss them into a blender, and top it off with a scoop of Ted Williams, you’d have the most homerunniest hitting baseball player in gaming history. A man so potent that, much like Madonna or what’s her face [...]
Unstoppable. That’s the only word that can even remotely come close to describing “Tecmo Bo”, a sports video game athlete so dominant, so simultaneously loved and feared by 8-bit pigskinners worldwide, that his name has become forever entangled with the game – - both on the digital gridiron and in real life. Sports commentators often [...]
I recognize that it’s more than a little bizarre to dissect Christian Okoye’s nearly flawless running game in Tecmo Super Bowl by comparing him to a comic book character, but I do so only to illustrate the amount of awesome that radiated from the character. I got into the four-color funnies during my pre-teen years [...]
To be perfectly honest, before the age of 10, I really disliked football. I hated the concept of “downs”; it just seemed to bring the otherwise kick ass action to a sudden and screeching halt. I hated the flags; seemed too prissy for a sport in which 300-pound men knee one another in the groin [...]
It’s quite easy to forget that in the early-to-mid ’90s, the Buffalo Bills boasted one of the best lineups in the National Football League. Although it’s infinitely easy for the simpleminded to poke fun at the Bills four consecutive Super Bowl losses (1990 vs. the New York Giants, 1991 vs. the Washington Redskins, and 1992/1993 [...]
I would’ve been tarred-and-feathered, hung from a tree, thrown off a bridge, and run over by a Mac truck by the rabid Tecmo Bowl fanboys had I not mentioned Lawrence Taylor. I know better than to gamble with my life. Although LT’s alter ego is an excellent play-stopper in the Blitz: The League and Blitz: [...]
Analyzing Electronic Arts from our contemporary perspective, it’s easy to think of the company as one that makes its big bucks by churning out sports titles on an annual basis with very little in the way of new additions and fresh content save for the roster updates and occasional graphics overhauls. Back in the ’90s, [...]
Iron Mike. The Dynamite Kid. Rapist. Victim of a Cruel Society. Manic Depressive. The Baddest Man on the Planet. Sympathetic Figure. Call him what you will, but Mike Tyson’s in-ring talents (I’m talking pre-jail sentence, here) made him the greatest KO machine of his generation and arguably of all-time. His string of explosive knock outs [...]
