Summer Games Challenge 2016

[Exhuminator]

@prfsnl_gmr

>Tecmo Super Bowl

Everybody and their mother swears this is the best retro sports game ever, so it's safe to say it's a classic.

[strangenova]

RBI Baseball

Thoughts? (Since it is the summer, I am inclined to play a baseball or golf game...)

that's my vote

[prfsnl_gmr]

Thanks, team! I have played most of these - and in some cases - I have spent a lot of time with them. I actually played sports games a lot when I was younger, but my time was focused on the multi-player modes. (Accordingly, I know that RBI Baseball and Tecmo Bowl are both very high quality games.) Amazingly, however, I have never won the Super Bowl, the World Series, etc. in many of these great games.

[Sarge]

@prfsnl_gmr

>Tecmo Super Bowl

Everybody and their mother swears this is the best retro sports game ever, so it's safe to say it's a classic.

That's because it is the best retro sports game ever. I know my time with the game will attest to that.

The original Tecmo Bowl is pretty good, but nothing matches Super.

I'm not sure I'd consider it a "classic", but Baseball Simulator 1.000 is tons of fun. Lots of stat-tracking, and then you get all the super pitches, hitting, and fielding if you use that league. It's cool stuff.

[Exhuminator]

My personal vote for a NES sports pick is:

[prfsnl_gmr]

Rad. That actually is one of my favorite NES sports games (even if the robot fights are entirely too rare). I would be hard-pressed to call it a classic, however.

[Sarge]

The music is vintage Konami, too.

[Exhuminator]

Here's my tentative list:

Aquales | 1991 | Sharp X68000
Beneath Apple Manor | 1978 | Apple II
Dragon Quest II | 1987/1999 | Game Boy Color
Quest For Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero | 1989/1992 | DOS
Malaya's Treasure | 1989 | MSX
New Devil Golvellius | 1988 | MSX2
Night Slave | 1996 | PC-98
Rusty | 1993 | PC-98
Shadow Tower | 1998 | PlayStation
The Scheme | 1988 | PC-88

So I've got a variety of platforms ranging from the 70s to the 90s, pretty good spread. No 00s games so Bone can sleep at night. As for dsheinem, I believe all of these are classics, even if some are only known as classics in Japan. If I'm wrong I dunna care.

[noiseredux]

Rusty is fucking awesome. Great pick.

[prfsnl_gmr]

As for dsheinem, I believe all of these are classics, even if some are only known as classics in Japan. If I'm wrong I dunna care.

I was about to say...you basically sounded the DSH alarm with this list.

Dragon Quest II | 1987/1999 | Game Boy Color

Send me a PM when you start this. I have been meaning to play through that game for years, and I may try to play it simultaneously.