Let's talk about North American released sports games

[Punch]

TV Sports Football is good but it's kinda disapointing once you see the original Amiga version and all the stuff they cut out to fit the game in a hucard.

If Cinemaware survived just a little bit longer we might have seen a TV Sports Football 2 on CDROM2 format, as it was released for the Amiga CD32 by a company who picked up what was done of the cancelled sequel (for the Amiga of course, who knows if they would have ported it to the PCE):

[Dicer]

TV Sports Football is good but it's kinda disapointing once you see the original Amiga version and all the stuff they cut out to fit the game in a hucard.

If Cinemaware survived just a little bit longer we might have seen a TV Sports Football 2 on CDROM2 format, as it was released for the Amiga CD32 by a company who picked up what was done of the cancelled sequel (for the Amiga of course, who knows if they would have ported it to the PCE):

It came from the Desert...to play FOOTBALL!!!!

[esteban]

TV Sports Football is good but it's kinda disapointing once you see the original Amiga version and all the stuff they cut out to fit the game in a hucard.

If Cinemaware survived just a little bit longer we might have seen a TV Sports Football 2 on CDROM2 format, as it was released for the Amiga CD32 by a company who picked up what was done of the cancelled sequel (for the Amiga of course, who knows if they would have ported it to the PCE):

I never knew Amiga CD Football's history!

Intriguing.

I can't see myself watching those FMV scenes more than once, though...even though they are competently done.

[DragonmasterDan]

TV Sports Football is good but it's kinda disapointing once you see the original Amiga version and all the stuff they cut out to fit the game in a hucard.

If Cinemaware survived just a little bit longer we might have seen a TV Sports Football 2 on CDROM2 format, as it was released for the Amiga CD32 by a company who picked up what was done of the cancelled sequel (for the Amiga of course, who knows if they would have ported it to the PCE):

There was also the unreleased but apparently complete TV Sports Baseball.

Some time ago someone bought a Turbo lot from someone on craigslist that apparently included it.

[esteban]

TV Sports Football is good but it's kinda disapointing once you see the original Amiga version and all the stuff they cut out to fit the game in a hucard.

If Cinemaware survived just a little bit longer we might have seen a TV Sports Football 2 on CDROM2 format, as it was released for the Amiga CD32 by a company who picked up what was done of the cancelled sequel (for the Amiga of course, who knows if they would have ported it to the PCE):

There was also the unreleased but apparently complete TV Sports Baseball.

Some time ago someone bought a Turbo lot from someone on craigslist that apparently included it.

I think the fellow with the TV SPORTS Baseball prototype posted here, because I think I jokingly told him to send it to me so that I could verify it.

For folks who are interested:

http://archives.tg-16.com/TURBOPLAY/TP-11-16.jpg

TV SPORTS Baseball review from TurboPlay Magazine

[esteban]

About a month ago I did the pennant race in World Class Baseball. I'm a sucker for most any baseball game, so I enjoyed it. Nothing special, just decent baseball action. I would play it again (or the subsequent power leagues on pce since there are different stadiums and slight differences).

I also really enjoy Sonic Spike. It's pretty great for a $15 sports game (bought it for that sealed on Amazon not too long ago). I would play it with some friends in my dorm last year and we had a lot of fun. They usually didn't like it at first and then grew to hate it slightly less. I got pretty good at it for awhile too. 2 on 2 with a multi tap provides some great action! I would recommended it to anyone with friends over. Give it a shot, tournament play could be fun with teams of two.

I've also enjoyed Hit the Ice from what I played briefly, it was fun and not slow like I remember TV Sports Hockey feeling when I played that.

I keep thinking I will try Sonic Spike to see if it holds up in 2015, but here I am, decades later, and I still haven't tried it out.

In my defense, I don't think I bought the game until a decade ago, but still.

I don't have ONE favorite TG-16 sports game, but I certainly have had fun with:
Power Golf (I enjoy all basic golf games, so this isn't saying much)
World Class Baseball (Ditto)
David Cup Tennis

I think we could put all the damn games in a poll and see the votes. Maybe we get 2-3 votes? Or would the results be obvious (World Sports Competition, j/k)?

Maybe we should POLL the top 2-3 games, eliminate them, and then create a new poll of the "Lesser-loved TG-16 Sports Games"

For example, I am not ashamed to admit that I had fun with TV SPORTS Football when it was released. A friend and I played it often. Of course, he quickly got so good that he could decimate the computer AI (no challenge at all). I think I only played a full season a handful of times. The same with TV SPORTS Hockey: 3-5 player games were fun, but I do not remember playing a full tournament more than a handful of times.

ALSO, WE HAVE TO POST AGENT_ORANGE's AWESOME POWER GOLF (or was it Jack Nicklaus) BLANCHING!

[esteban]

(This is the original post, I think: http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17692.msg390155#msg390155 )

http://youtu.be/Ggs-VrwSCeo?t=3m28s

you can use the following link to jump to 3:28 to see TV Sports Baseball in action.
https://youtu.be/Ggs-VrwSCeo?t=3m28s

Awesome, I forgot about that.

[Punch]

my inner collectard is still traumatized by the power soup video after all this time

[esteban]

my inner collectard is still traumatized by the power soup video after all this time

I still can't believe all the abuse the poor, innocent HuCARD was subjected to.

[chany60126]

Sonic Spike is a fun game with friends. This video shows clips of the 20 person tournament we did at Octurbofest a few years back from 1:56 to 4:14.

[roflmao]

That is awesome!

[esteban]

Is that majors playing Nam75 the entire time? I remember this video from a few years back, I love the TurboFest atmosphere of happiness and turbob. 

[Damon Plus]

Turbo sports games have a lot of charm to me, in an old-school kind of way. They are usually arcade-like, with no long seasons and such, cute and clean graphics, and to the point gameplay. Of the ones I've played:

-Power Golf: Just one course, and a choice between 3 golfers. Power bar cursor moves a bit too fast, but otherwise, a really good pick up and play for 20 minutes.

-World Court Tennis: Very easy to play, although I'm still not sure why there seem to be huge differences between some players, even after reading the manual. Quest mode adds a nice distraction.

-World Class Baseball: Not a fan of these games, but this one plays really good, one of the only ones I find fun to play.

-Davis Cup Tennis: Just played 10 minutes and didn't get the controls, but many people think it is good, so it should be.

-Tv Sports Football: I'm an European, so outside of Tecmo Super Bowl I find football games hard to play.

[chany60126]

Is that majors playing Nam75 the entire time? I remember this video from a few years back, I love the TurboFest atmosphere of happiness and turbob. 

Well, majors did stop playing Nam momentarily when it was his turn to participate in the Sonic Spike tournament.

But yeah, major props to joshuaTurbo for capturing the essence of the fest via the recording. Of all the different fests that we have done over the years, that event was probably my favorite.

[johnnykonami]

Missed this thread while it was hot.  I looove power golf.  All I have is a loosie now, but I have always dug that soundtrack.  I have always meant to keep an eye out on Power Golf 2, so I might shop for it after I finish typing this.  Madden Duo Football always fascinated me, I'm not a football fan (save perhaps for Eyeshield 21 on the Nintendo DS) but it was awesome to see a major franchise make it's way on to the Duo.  I would definitely pick it up for the novelty, but I'm sure there would be a lot of competition with it being one of those late release TTI titles.