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86: Rad Sports Games
Famicom Dojo Video Game Podcast
English - February 21, 2014 07:00 - 22.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsVideo Games Leisure video game news nintendo wii u 3ds nes famicom sony ps4 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Before EA, official sports titles were more spread out, and used in all kind of ways. Games like NBA Jam are hard to come by these days (barring updates to NBA Jam). Before annual installments of Year of the Same Game, you had crazy sports game ideas that were one and done. These weren't simulators, like we have today, but imaginitive riffs on the sports to make up for any technical proficiency that hardware of the time may have had. And that's what makes them Rad Sports Games.
Vinnk and Sean talk about their favorite titles, including the aforementioned NBA Jam, Punch Out, Bases Loaded (and a bunch of other weird
baseball games), and even Scotti Pippen's Slam City! If you've never played it before, why... it sure is something else. Will we ever see their like again? Aside from EA picking up the IP for NBA Jam from Midway, that is...
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