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Sensible Soccer

How did this classic football game fare when brought to the Sega Master System?

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NFL 2K

Nick recalls how this sports game he hadn’t intended to buy ended up outshining the one he had originally wanted.

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Muscle Ranking: Road To Sasuke

Could this import exclusive Ninja Warrior tie-in game really be any good? With Konami behind it, absolutely.

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Track & Field

Track & Field: a great game, but maybe not at today’s prices…

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Microprose Soccer

Before it was Sensible, it was Microprose…

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Dancing Stage Euromix

15 years ago, households up and down the UK were dancing to Konami’s beat…

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Super Sidekicks

Flash back to a time before Leicester was the talk of the footballing world…

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Street Hoop

Same concept, different flavour – NBA Marmalade, perhaps?

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Windjammers

Who needs real sports when made-up ones are this much fun?

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Pocket Tennis Color

Nick’s in the middle of a Neo Geo Pocket love fest, so here’s a byproduct of that…

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Sensible Golf

Something of a double bogey.

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Mario’s Tennis

Was this the Mario title players had in mind when they bought the Virtual Boy? Maybe not…

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Athlete Kings

It’s summer, and that means it’s time for sports! On your consoles, we mean – don’t get up.

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Taito Power Goal

We’re not sure what Eric Cantona’s favourite football game is, but this might just be it…

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Winter Games

As trees blossom and the weather warms up, Nick looks back to winter for his gaming kicks.

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Pete Sampras Tennis

Darran remembers this rather awesome tennis game.

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BMX Simulator

Darran revisits Codemasters’ first published videogame.

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Mach Breakers

It’s more Numan Athletics, but even bigger and better than before!

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Virtua Tennis 2

Darran revisits Sega’s stunning Dreamcast game.

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Pilotwings 64

We take a fond look back at the classic N64 launch game.

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Leaderboard

A quick look back at a sublime representation of the best single-player sport…

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Combat School

Darran gets all nostalgic for the Spectrum conversion of this classic arcade game.

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Numan Athletics

A multi-sports title featuring superhuman athletes – and Gary’s nowhere to be found…

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High Heat Baseball 2004

One of our readers defends this interesting baseball release for 3DO.

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Olympic Decathlon

Retrobate ncf1 takes a look at the toughest athletic challenge to ever face Apple II owners.

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FIFA: Road To World Cup 98

As football fever grips the world, revisit the game that proved FIFA could work in 3D.

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WCW / nWo : Revenge

The Nintendo 64 is still the console of choice for wrestling fans

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TKO

Get some first-person boxing with this fun game from Accolade.

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Bowling

Bowling may very well be one of the most simple games for the Atari 2600 (and that’s saying something) but it is also one of the more recognizable sports titles for the console as well, and just so happens to hold some fond memories for me.

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Smash Ping Pong

Some time or another during the history, every sport has been ported onto a video-game console…

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Natsume Championship Wrestling

Pro-Wrestling has been the focus of video-games for years. With every generation of consoles pro-wrestling games are released

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Double Dribble

The NES was bombarded with sports games…

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Championship Manager 93

This game improved on the original in many ways – by far the most significant change was the use of real player names for the first time…

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Punch Out Special (Gold)

A look at this super exclusive version of the popular NES boxing game.

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Reggie Jackson Baseball

Sega’s last baseball bullet on the Master System was the color-clashing and somewhat novel Reggie Jackson Baseball…

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World Series Baseball ’95

World Series Baseball ’95 set the standard in 2D baseball games and is fun and enjoyable to play still today.

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John Elway’s Quarterback

Despite previous ports already on the Amstrad GPC, Commodore 64, and the ZX Spectrum, Tradewest’s 1989 NES release of John Elway’s Quarterback was plagued with a lack of features and game play resulting in one of the worst sports titles I’ve ever played.

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Kevin Keegan's Player Manager

A WARNING – if you play this game make sure you have the instruction book…

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Motos

This was a £2.99 budget title, yet it was an arcade conversion. Something a bit unusual, but what was even stranger, is that it was… it IS fantastic!

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Ski Air Mix

A great ski game which allows you to ski down the slopes in 11 different skis…