OT: Old, Rare Sports Games

PAL_Gamer · Post by **PAL_Gamer** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:55 pm

I have a sealed copy of 4D Boxing (PC) by Electronic Arts (3.5" Disk). I also have all the NFL Pro League games (PC) by Dave Holt and the NCAA All-American Football (PC) games as well. Good stuff.

Anyone else have any old, rare sports games that they are collecting?

PAL

Post by **Jared** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:59 am

Not that old....I used to have a copy of Earl Weaver Baseball, but lost it a while ago. Good times.

hellbent · Post by **hellbent** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:06 am

PAL_Gamer wrote:I have a sealed copy of 4D Boxing (PC) by Electronic Arts (3.5" Disk). I also have all the NFL Pro League games (PC) by Dave Holt and the NCAA All-American Football (PC) games as well. Good stuff.

Anyone else have any old, rare sports games that they are collecting?

PAL

I have a couple of real train wrecks, NFL Legends 98 and NFL Football Pro 99. Don't know why I held onto them, really. If nothing else, I think they help remind me of just how BAD a football video game can really be.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:01 pm

I've got so many I don't know where to begin.

2 copies of Old time Baseball
2 copies of Tony Larussa 2
computer Baseball by SSI (we will see how old people are if they know that game)

Omni Play Basketball, my favortie sports game of all time.

All the Dave Holt Stuff you mentioned.

All the Front Page Sports Titles

I should make a list of this stuff.

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:16 pm

I have wgh3 but cant get it to work

. Anyone ?

Would love to see how it plays now compared to the 3 frames per second i used to get.

PAL_Gamer · Post by **PAL_Gamer** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:17 pm

Omni Play Basketball was awesome. It's still my favorite basketball game of all time. I also love Superstar Ice Hockey. Ed Ringler was a genius.

"computer Baseball by SSI (we will see how old people are if they know that game)"

I don't remember that one. Was it a text-based game or a graphical one? I have the other two baseball games you mentioned.

Sports gaming (At least on the PC) was so much better back in the early 90's IMO. Sure, the gameplay in most cases wasn't as good as today's games, but man, those were some fun times! And the selection of games was much better. Tom Landry's Deluxe Football anyone? 4th and Inches is also a classic.

BTW, anyone who wants to run their old DOS games on their Windows XP computer, should check out DOSBox. This application allows those old games to run in a DOS environment within XP.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php?

PAL

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:21 pm

Computer Baseball was a text based game.

I still have Tom Landry Football, I also have some Amiga games but sadly no Amiga anymore. Gridiron Football and Earl Weaver.

I probably have over 700 PC games, I have never sold any or thrown them away. Well that is a lie, I tossed all my 5 1/4 inch games about 5 years ago. LOL

hellbent · Post by **hellbent** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:32 pm

PAL_Gamer wrote: Sports gaming (At least on the PC) was so much better back in the early 90's IMO. Sure, the gameplay in most cases wasn't as good as today's games, but man, those were some fun times! And the selection of games was much better. Tom Landry's Deluxe Football anyone? 4th and Inches is also a classic.

I used to play the hell out of 4th and Inches. Actually updated all the rosters with real NFL teams and players and kept franchise stats in a notebook - yep, I'm an old PC geek. Yeah, the gameplay eventually sucked once you got the hang of it and started beating the s*** out of the CPU, but it was nice for what it was. I don't think Madden had the NFLPA license at the time either, so being able to customize teams and rosters was a real plus. And now everything old is new again, so you once again can't edit players in Madden (at least the 360 version).

John Elway's Quarterback was pretty poor except for one thing, the passing mechanic being tied to aiming with the joystick. I'd love to see something like this tried out again now with the gamepad right-stick.

Hardball was pretty nice back then too, along with LaRussa and later on, Baseball Pro. Gretzky hockey was nice too for its time.

PAL_Gamer · Post by **PAL_Gamer** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:33 pm

"I have wgh3 but cant get it to work . Anyone ?"

Jimmy,

Try the DOSBox application I linked to earlier.

"Would love to see how it plays now compared to the 3 frames per second i used to get."

LOL, I tried to play Mike Ditka's Ultimate Football the other day on my PIII 800mhz cpu and the gameplay was so fast that a play took less than a half second. I've heard that a program called CPUKiller is good to use as it will slow down your computer with a click of the mouse to play those old games.

"I probably have over 700 PC games, I have never sold any or thrown them away."

Damn! Do you have the old Konami NFL Football games from around 92-93? And the Ultimate Football games from Microprose?

PAL

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:44 pm

PAL_Gamer wrote: Damn! Do you have the old Konami NFL Football games from around 92-93? And the Ultimate Football games from Microprose?

PAL

Yeah but not the box, actually I was a Beta Tester on that pile of dogshit.

Myself and Bill Harris among others were also beta testers for FPSBB, are names in the manul on that one. I still have my FPSBB shirt they sent us.

PAL_Gamer · Post by **PAL_Gamer** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:45 pm

" used to play the hell out of 4th and Inches. Actually updated all the rosters with real NFL teams and players and kept franchise stats in a notebook - yep, I'm an old PC geek."

LOL, same here. I found my "Dynasty" notebook from my Superstar Ice Hockey game the other day. In 25 seasons I won the Cup 10 times. The great thing about that game (Superstar Ice Hockey) was that your players aged, so in the beginning they sucked, but as they matured, they got better until you had a Dynasty that lasted for a few years and then they got older and their performance sucked. You then started losing more until you released them and got rookies. All this in 1987!

"John Elway's Quarterback was pretty poor except for one thing, the passing mechanic being tied to aiming with the joystick. I'd love to see something like this tried out again now with the gamepad right-stick."

Exactly. Man, that game run S-L-O-W, but the passing was great. I wonder if you played it today on a modern CPU if it would speed up like my Mike Ditka did. Then you could use CPUKiller to tailor the game speed to your liking.

PAL

PAL_Gamer · Post by **PAL_Gamer** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:01 pm

""John Elway's Quarterback was pretty poor except for one thing, the passing mechanic being tied to aiming with the joystick. I'd love to see something like this tried out again now with the gamepad right-stick."

Exactly. Man, that game run S-L-O-W, but the passing was great. I wonder if you played it today on a modern CPU if it would speed up like my Mike Ditka did. Then you could use CPUKiller to tailor the game speed to your liking."

I just tried it and it runs way too fast on my PC. I'm going to download and try CPUKiller to see how that works.

PAL

PAL_Gamer · Post by **PAL_Gamer** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:48 pm

"I just tried it and it runs way too fast on my PC. I'm going to download and try CPUKiller to see how that works."

CPUKiller works awesome. You can get it here:

http://www.cpukiller.com/

PAL

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:48 pm

I love quoting myself repeatedly.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:32 pm

4th and Inches and Harball, what memories.

I have FPS Football Pro '97 and Baseball Pro '96, as well as High Heat 2000 and 2002.

FatPitcher · Post by **FatPitcher** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:09 pm

I also really liked Omni-Play Basketball. First game I played where you had season-to-season player progression.

billharris44 · Post by **billharris44** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:19 pm

Danimal wrote:
PAL_Gamer wrote: Damn! Do you have the old Konami NFL Football games from around 92-93? And the Ultimate Football games from Microprose?

PAL
Yeah but not the box, actually I was a Beta Tester on that pile of dogshit.

Myself and Bill Harris among others were also beta testers for FPSBB, are names in the manul on that one. I still have my FPSBB shirt they sent us.

That was a GREAT shirt.

I still have a boxed, unopened copy of FPSBB'98. I bought it the day it came out because I couldn't stand to wait for the free beta tester copy.

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:45 am

dbdynsty25 wrote:I love quoting myself repeatedly.

Piss off DB.

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:11 am

Post by **Jared** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:21 am

Jimmy,

You have a PM.

Jared

Bill_Abner · Post by **Bill_Abner** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:28 am

FatPitcher wrote:I also really liked Omni-Play Basketball. First game I played where you had season-to-season player progression.

This and the hockey game, as well as the horse racing game were great, great, early day sports games. Highly underrated when people talk about the old days. The basketball game on the old Amiga was a blast.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:47 pm

I played so many games of Hardball on my C64.

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:11 pm

MizzouRah wrote:

I played so many games of Hardball on my C64.

LOL thats awsome is that the one with "Biff Stinnet" ? he was awsome.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:59 pm

Jimmydeicide wrote:
MizzouRah wrote:

I played so many games of Hardball on my C64.
LOL thats awsome is that the one with "Biff Stinnet" ? he was awsome.

I think so. I used to know all the players by name, but all I can think of is Lefty James.

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:22 pm

HAHA yep thats the one . Was it just a red and a blue team also ? i played the crap out of that one.

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