The best 8 bit sports game is?

[Justin Bailey]

Gotta be Punch Out.

 

[BourbonJungle]

This and Base Wars:

for me. I don't really consider Punch Out a sports game tbqh.

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Oh shit, Base Wars was so much fun.

Also forgot about Baseball Simulator 1.000

All the ridiculous powers made for fun multiplayer.
May have played the SNES version more.

 

[Goddo Hando]

playing a season of tecmo superbowl is more fun than playing through a season of any football game from the last 15 years

 

[____]

Whatever that baseball game on GameGear was. It can't be beat.

Edit: World Series Baseball

 

[CaptainK]

Mario Tennis (GBC) if that counts. It's way better than NES Tennis.

 

[dennett316]

Speedball 2 on the C64. Great conversion of a very fun future sport game.
The ones I remember liking the most are racing games, which are left out for some weird reason. RC Pro Am on the NES is a great radio controlled car racer.
I also loved Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road on the C64. Great 4 player fun.

Sports games only started to get really good in the 16 bit era though. Sensible Soccer (oh shit, this had a Sega Master System port...that beats those I listed above then), EA Hockey, Madden '92, PGA Tour Golf and its sequels, NBA Jam, Mutant League Football and Hockey, Brian Lara Cricket. Just lots of great, fun games.

 

[JaseMath]

 

[shark97]

Ice Hockey NES

 

[cyberninja]

Double dribble was my jam.

 

[Exist 2 Inspire]

Grand Prix Circuit

 

[vixlar]

Basewars. I liked the rule of ocuppied base, instead of an instant out you must fight. And I liked that you can upgrade your players with weapons and armor.

Blades of steel. The game was fun. And you can fight and you can play Gradius in the halftime.

Ice hockey. Very fast and dynamic.

Double dribble. A great basketball game. The animations on close up were really cool.

Arch rivals. The granddaddy of NBA jam. Basketball with violence.

 

[leder]

Super Dodge Ball takes it easily. Runner up, Blades of Steel.

 

[EloKa]

Any variation of the Track & Field game

 

[Deleted member 8752]

Oh wait, never considered handheld games... Mario Golf on GBC may be the one actually.

 

[Waluigi's World]

 

[Like the hat?]

Blades of Steel. Just as fun today as it was when I was a kid.

 

[Deleted member 49319]

NES tennis

 

[toilet_sandpaper]

Gameboy Color is 8-bit right? Then Mario Tennis wins. Great tennis game, it even has RPG elements and a story!

 

[hypostatic]

Mario Golf GBC, the thread.

 

[OzBoz]

I played the Epyx "______ Games" series a lot as a kid. I don't know how well they hold up. Winter Games on C64 was my favorite, except for the alpine skiing which sucked.

 

[GillianSeed79]

Blades of Steel>>>Ice Hockey

My picks based on individual sports:

Hockey - Blades of Steel
Boxing - Mike Tyson's Punch Out!
Baseball - Baseball Simulator 1.000
Football - Tecmo Super Bowl
Wrestling - (Tie) Tecmo World Wrestling and Pro Wrestling
Soccer - Nintendo World Cup
Basketball - Double Dribble
Tennis - Racket Attack
Compilation Multi-sport: (Tie) Track and Field II and World Games

 

[GillianSeed79]

Oh shit, Base Wars was so much fun.

Also forgot about Baseball Simulator 1.000

All the ridiculous powers made for fun multiplayer.
May have played the SNES version more.

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My man. My brothers and I used one of my dad's baseball stats books to create multiple real life teams spent an entire summer playing season mode in this. It was awesome even without the wacky power ups.

 

[Loud Wrong]

Baseball Stars

 

[GamerJM]

I haven't played a lot of 8-bit sports games but the hockey ones are good shit. Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel.

 

[World B. SkiFree]

Good calls on GBC Mario Golf and Mario Tennis. Great games.

 

[Josh5890]

Ice Hockey NES and it isn't even close

 

[Furiousone]

Tecmo Super Bowl
Bad News Baseball
Punch Out (prefer Tyson's)
Blades of Steel
Double Dribble

 

[Why would you do that?]

Blades of Steel, Ice Hockey, and Tecmo (Super) Bowl are all great choices.

I haven't played Mario Tennis or Mario Golf on GB though.

Why is Tecmo Super Bowl, not on the Switch online service? Tecmo Bowl is, and it's definitely a solid game, but it's no TSB.

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Tecmo Super Bowl was licensed by the NFL and NFLPA, so it has real team and player names, plus, the ability to use "Super Bowl" e.g. in its title.

The original Tecmo Bowl doesn't have any licenced names, so it's much easier to put out today. (I don't remember if it had player names, though... If it did, they were removed in the NES Mini and NSO versions.)

 

[bixente]

Aussie Rules Footy (NES)

Aussie Rules Footy is one of two officially licensed Australia-only releases for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed and published by Beam So...

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[ThorHammerstein]

8-bit? RC Pro Am. Still very fun.

 

[Guaraná]

Enduro.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I played Ice Hockey about 2 weeks ago (USA, 1 Fat and 3 Medium guys) This game is just as good is its ever been.

 

[kamineko]

ice hockey

my friend and i played a lot of NES tennis, too

 

[Wilf Netherton]

I'd say Tecmo Super Bowl and Blades of Steel are the highlights for me. Kinda feel that Punch-Out!! doesn't really fit in this discussion.

 

[Ashhong]

Was that basketball game where you can pull down their pants 8 bit? Loved that game

 

[hydro94530]

Double Dribble or Tecmo Bowl.

 

[Indelible]

Grew up with Bad News Baseball and WCW Wrestling, not sure how they hold up but I had fun with them.

 

[clickKunst]

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Was going to ask if this counts - could be seen as a proto-fighting game. It has held up incredibly well.

 

[Bulebule]

Blades of Steel easily.

 

[Deleted member 14377]

Skate or die breh

 

[eXistor]

Punch-Out! for sure.

I was also gonna say some Kunio-kun game or other, but it's already been covered I see.

 

[Tailzo]

Olympic Gold (video game) - Wikipedia

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www.vgmuseum.com/images/sms/01/olymp.html

For gamegear and master system

 

[CrabDust]

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Good pick. I think i played tennis, baseball, and ice hockey more, but this is the NES sports game with the most polished controls for sure.

 

[Trilobite]

Double Dribble!
As a kid I thought the dunking animations looked life like.

 

[TechMetalRules]

California Games

 

[JDHarbs]

8-bit Pong

 

[darz1]

I always loved Skate Or Die and Ski or Die and Double Dribble. But Punch Out was the best

 

[Deleted member 1627]

Double Dribble!
As a kid I thought the dunking animations looked life like.

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My man!

 

[leesmapman]

Pennant Race 2 (MSX2)

Pennant Race 2 - Konami - msx2

MSX sport baseball computer games, sequel of Konami's Baseball MSX1 and Pennant Race MSX2 - Played bay Gekido_Ken for www.rebitmagazine.it

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[Nature's finest mango]

Nintendo World Cup.

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Yep, pretty much this one.
Hilarious game too.