Category: Sports Games

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Walsh GAME DEVELOPER:Probe Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Acclaim Entertainment Copyright 1998, Probe Entertainment Extreme-G 2 (better known as XG2) is an excellent – and very good looking – sequel of Extreme-G, a futuristic racer for Nintendo 64 that was very successful, but unfortunately never ported to PC.…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:ARC Software GAME PUBLISHER:MicroProse Copyright 1996, ARC Software Probably the most obscure game that MicroProse published, Track Attack is a fun arcade-style futuristic racing game in the same vein as WipeOut or CyberRace. Released only in a few European countries, the game features nice…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Holt & Jeff Holt GAME DEVELOPER:Micro Sports GAME PUBLISHER:Micro Sports Copyright 1993, Micro Sports This is the 1993 version of NFL Pro League Football, one of the most underrated American football series in existence. Beginning in 1991, NPLF had grown into a solid franchise that…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Holt & Jeff Holt GAME DEVELOPER:Micro Sports GAME PUBLISHER:Interplay Copyright 1992, Micro Sports Pro League Baseball is an excellent text-based baseball simulation from Micro Sports. Officially endorsed by USA’s Major League Baseball, the game features full rosters for the 1991 season, as well as all…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Talking Birds GAME PUBLISHER:Black Legend Copyright 1994, Talking Birds Tactical Manager is a decent football simulation game from Talking Birds, who would later release the sequel Tactical Manager 2 into public domain. The game is long on the number of clubs and statistics, but…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Infogrames GAME PUBLISHER:Philips Media Copyright 1996, Philips Media International Tennis Open is a good port of Philip’s CD-i game of the same name that sold relatively well on the CD-i but remains unknown on the PC. Billed as a “tennis simulation” (as opposed to…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Microids GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1996, Microids Super Ski Pro is the last game in Microid’s long line of winter sport games that never seemed to attract much attention – largely because they are not very good. Not for the lack of trying, though: Microids…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Vivid Image GAME PUBLISHER:UBI Soft Copyright 1996, Vivid Image Street Racer is a fun and very little known PC conversion of a Playstation game of the same name, which was in turn based on a 1994 game for the Super Nintendo. Street Racer is…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Steve Screech GAME DEVELOPER:Anco Software GAME PUBLISHER:Anco Software Copyright 1995, Anco Software Player Manager 2 by Anco is a decent football management sim that tries to entice fans of its classic Kick Off arcade-style football series, but without designer Dino Dini at the helm. As the…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Live Media GAME PUBLISHER:Live Media Copyright 1998, Live Media Total Soccer is a fun Sensible Soccer-style football game that is quite a lot of fun, even if it doesn’t introduce any new concepts that Sensible Soccer fans haven’t seen before. One of the best…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Gremlin GAME PUBLISHER:Gremlin Copyright 1992, Gremlin Nigel Mansell’s World Championship is a disappointing racing game that starts out with a novel premise, then proceeds to ruin it by bad execution – same as what we have seen with countless other games. Endorsed by Nigel…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:David Worrall GAME DEVELOPER:Red Rat GAME PUBLISHER:Mandarin Software Copyright 1989, Red Rat Lombard RAC Rally is a fun driving simulation of a real-world of the same name (now called Network Q RAC Rally which takes place every year in Britain. You get to drive all the…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Sculptured Software GAME PUBLISHER:Mastertronic Copyright 1989, Mastertronic Magic Johnson’s Basketball is a decent arcade-style basketball game starring LA Lakers’ superstar Magic Johnson, one of the most famous players of all time. It is a direct translation of the popular coin-op arcade game called Magic…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Action Games GAME PUBLISHER:Wizard Games Copyright 2002, Action Games Arguably the best horse racing game ever made for PC, Quarterpole Plus from Action Games combines the best of the company’s earlier Quarterpole and Hooves of Thunder to create the ultimate horse racing simulation. Whether…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Imagic GAME PUBLISHER:Imagic Copyright 1985, Imagic Looking at game titles is one good way to tell the ‘pioneers’ in specific genres apart from the followers. So when a game is called simply Tennis, you can count on it being one of the oldest tennis…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Imagitec Design GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1989, Imagitec Design Greg Norman’s Shark Attack! is a good golf game that is surprisingly in-depth for its age (1989). Up to four human or computer players can participate in Strokeplay or Matchplay, with the option of playing…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Adam Ryland GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Adam Ryland Extreme Warfare Revenge is an outstanding ‘wrestling promoter sim’ from Adam Ryland. This is not yet another arcade wrestling game where you watch guys in skimpy clothes duke it out on the stage: this is a…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Colin McGregor GAME DEVELOPER:Bug-Byte Software GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2003, Colin McGregor Xeno 2002 is a fun remake of Xeno, an old 8-bit Spectrum ZX classic from 1986. Xeno is a futuristic sports game for 2 players that plays like air hockey. Though the goal is the…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Anders Wihlborg GAME DEVELOPER:Wihlborg Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Wihlborg Entertainment Copyright 2001, Wihlborg Entertainment Comic Kicker Euro 2000 is an enjoyable, humorous cartoon version of the Euro 2000 football (soccer to you Americans) championship. The game features 16 funny caricatured teams to choose from, fluid animations, and solid…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Geoff Crammond GAME DEVELOPER:MicroProse GAME PUBLISHER:MicroProse Copyright 1996, Geoff Crammond A worthy successor to Geoff Crammond’s classic World Circuit (a.k.a. F1 Grand Prix, Grand Prix 2 is a rare sequel that manages to surpass its predecessor in every respect. Racing game guru Ben Chiu said it…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Radical Entertainment GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1997, Radical Entertainment Grid Runner is a fun futuristic sport game that was much more successful on console systems. You play Axxel, a space investigator sent on a mission with your partner Tara to an asteroid field to…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:SEGA GAME PUBLISHER:Empire Interactive Copyright 2000, SEGA SEGA Bass Fishing is an excellent bass fishing simulation that has been unfortunately ignored by PC gamers, perhaps due to the mistaken “it is probably not in-depth or realistic” attitude associated with the game’s console origins (this…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Mass Media GAME PUBLISHER:Time Warner Interactive Copyright 1996, Mass Media 3D Table Sports is an okay collection of indoor sports games. Indoor sport games are few and far between, and although this is not a bad game, it is unfortunately not a game that…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:High Voltage GAME PUBLISHER:Midway Copyright 1997, High Voltage NBA Hangtime is a superb PC port of Midway’s hit arcade game NBA Jam (Midway’s own port of which is also available for download from this site). Developer High Voltage Software did a great job with…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Beam Software GAME PUBLISHER:Melbourne House Copyright 1998, Beam Software Dethkarz is an excellent futuristic racing game that rivals, if not exceeds, UBI Soft’s better-known POD in the fun department. The game’s name purposefully sounds like “Death Cars” to signal its style as a “combat…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:E. Hashimoto GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2001, E. Hashimoto This is a strange little golf game, played with a side view, and holes resembling more the screens of platform games. Using Left and Right arrow keys, you must decide the power of the shot, and…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Carapace GAME PUBLISHER:Infogrames Copyright 2001, Carapace Power Spike Pro Beach Volleyball is a decent beach volleyball game from French developer Carapace that has all the bells and whistles and official endorsement of a sport association, but unfortunately none of the charm or personality of…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Flair GAME PUBLISHER:Flair Copyright 1992, Flair Eurosoccer is a subpar football game from Flair. The game lets you manage one of Europe’s best clubs in either friendly match or a tournament mode. A comprehensive list of teams and players aside, there is really not…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Mirage GAME PUBLISHER:Gremlin Copyright 1999, Gremlin Tim Chown of Games Domain says it all about this excellent and highly underrated pool game from Mirage/Gremlin: “Pool Shark features a dozen or more pool halls in which you can play, each with a distinct appearance and…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Visutech GAME PUBLISHER:Visutech Copyright 1991, Visutech Center Court Tennis is an average tennis game that looks better than most tennis games at the time, but plays much worse than classics like Great Courts 2. All the options you could expect from a tennis game…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Sculptured Software GAME PUBLISHER:Acclaim Entertainment Copyright 1996, Sculptured Software College Slam is a fun basketball game that is essentially a carbon copy of Acclaim’s earlier NBA Jam Tournament Edition, except with NCAA teams and players instead of NBA ones. There are some additional features,…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Mirinae Software GAME PUBLISHER:Mirinae Software Copyright 1996, Mirinae Software This is a beta version of KartRace, a fun kart racing game that was released only in Korea. The game is identical to the release version in every way except the beta notice. The game…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Dreams Multimedia GAME PUBLISHER:Digital Dreams Multimedia Copyright 1995, Digital Dreams Multimedia PC Rally is a below average shareware rally racing game from Spain’s Digital Dreams Multimedia. The game lets you drive either a Toyota Celica or a Lancia Delta HF Integrale in 30…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Werner Krahe GAME DEVELOPER:Software 2000 GAME PUBLISHER:OCEAN Copyright 1995, Software 2000 One of the rarest football games ever made, Football Limited by Software 2000 (released as Bundesliga Manager Hattrick in Germany) deserves to be much better known. Daniel Henriksen at Soccer Games Homepage says it all…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Scott Haag GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1996, Scott Haag Ski King is a fun freeware game coded by Scott Haag in 1996. The idea is simple: ski down all 50 hills in the game without hitting the trees. For every 10 hills you get past,…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Chris Pirih GAME DEVELOPER:Microsoft GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 1991, Chris Pirih If you ever used Windows 3.1, you have probably come across Ski Free at some point. Ski Free deserves to be ranked alongside Minesweeper as one of the best “coffee break” games for Windows ever made.…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Digital Dreams Multimedia GAME PUBLISHER:Digital Dreams Multimedia Copyright 1996, Digital Dreams Multimedia DDM Soccer ’96 is a nice shareware soccer game from Digital Dreams Multimedia, a Spanish shareware/budget games developer. Although it looks merely like a budget clone of Sensible’s classic Sensible Soccer on…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Patrick Cook GAME DEVELOPER:Dynamix GAME PUBLISHER:Sierra On-Line Copyright 1995, Dynamix Front Page Sports: Football Pro ’95 is the definitive version of Dynamix’ excellent FPS: Football series – at least until Internet play included with the FPS: Football Pro ’97 version. All the great features of this…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:High Voltage GAME PUBLISHER:Mindscape Copyright 1998, Mindscape World League Basketball is an excellent, comprehensive, and vastly overlooked basketball game from Mindscape. The game has many features that set it apart from most other basketball titles. For starters, WLB lets you play international teams rather…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Andrew Morris & Shaun Southern GAME DEVELOPER:Magnetic Fields GAME PUBLISHER:Europress Copyright 1997, Magnetic Fields International Rally Championship is an excellent sequel to Magnetic Fields/Europess’ 1996 Rally Championship, and is the fourth entry in Magnetic Fields’ long line of top-notch rally simulations that began in 1993 with…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Sculptured Software GAME PUBLISHER:Acclaim Entertainment Copyright 1996, Sculptured Software NBA Jam Extreme is an excellent sequel to Acclaim’s NBA Jam, based on an arcade game of the same name. The game suffered poor sales as a result of very high hardware requirement: even on…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Aidan McKenna GAME DEVELOPER:Grass Games GAME PUBLISHER:Grass Games Copyright 2002, Grass Games Although they follow one of the world’s most popular sports, table tennis fans are less lucky when it comes to finding a good electronic substitute. Unlike football, basketball, and baseball, computer versions of table…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Paul Hamilton GAME DEVELOPER:Freeware GAME PUBLISHER:Freeware Copyright 2002, Paul Hamilton F-Zero is a great remake of the classic Super Nintendo game of the same name by Nintendo. The game looks and plays remarkably similar to the original game, down to the details of each track and…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Jason Page GAME DEVELOPER:Leland GAME PUBLISHER:Virgin Interactive Copyright 1990, Leland Ironman Super Offroad is a fun old dirt track racer that is best played against a few friends (up to 4) on the same computer. Endorsed by Ivan “Ironman” Stewart, a famous dirt track racer, the…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Denton Designs GAME PUBLISHER:Audiogenic Copyright 1992, Audiogenic World Class Rugby from Denton Designs and Audiogenic is one of the best rugby games ever made. The game features squads from the 16 countries which qualified for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, as well as a…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Gaetano Dalboni GAME DEVELOPER:Simulmondo GAME PUBLISHER:Simulmondo Copyright 1993, Simulmondo Released shortly after 3D World Boxing, Simulmondo’s 3D World Tennis suffers from the same good graphics/bad execution faults. You can choose a pre-created player or create your own to go through the ATP tour, beating opponents in…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Gaetano Dalboni GAME DEVELOPER:Simulmondo GAME PUBLISHER:Simulmondo Copyright 1992, Simulmondo 3D World Boxing is an average boxing game that looks better than it plays. Choosing from dozens of boxers available, you can either play a single match or an entire championship. The graphics are definitely the highlight…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER: GAME DEVELOPER:Blue Byte GAME PUBLISHER:UBI Soft Copyright 1990, Blue Byte Jimmy Conners Pro Tennis Tour (or simply Pro Tennis Tour in Europe) is a below average tennis game from Blue Byte. Although it has all the options you find in a typical tennis game (variable…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Rick Koenig GAME DEVELOPER:Imagitec Design GAME PUBLISHER:Electronic Arts Copyright 1989, Rick Koenig Ferrari Formula One is a decent F1 racing game from Rick Koenig and EA that offers a good feel for the event – but pales beside Accolade’s Grand Prix games in terms of realism…

From the Database of Home of the Underdogs GAME DESIGNER:Roger Carver & Bruce Carver GAME DEVELOPER:Access Software GAME PUBLISHER:Access Software Copyright 1987, Access Software Probably the best bowling game of the 1980s, 10th Frame Bowling is a fun bowling game for up to 8 players. Two gameplay modes are available: Open Bowling (a single match)…