Vintage Athletes' Fame Lives On In Videogames 36
JoeCotellese writes "Salon is running an article (ad click-through required) discussing how athletes live on in video games long past their retirement. In some cases, the article claims: 'The fond memories that a particular fan may have for a sports star owes more to the performance of his pixelated version than his actual on-court heroics'."
Here are the ones from my youth (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Here are the ones from my youth (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Here are the ones from my youth (Score:2, Interesting)
super nintendo? (Score:2, Funny)
Sleestak! (Score:2)
Tecmo Super Bowl (Score:2, Funny)
The most injured player ever.
old news (Score:4, Interesting)
w00t!
Re:old news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:old news (Score:1)
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/ach ievers/erv0-022 [achievement.org]
http://www.mikedust.com/spirits/images/spirits-art icle-erving.jpg [mikedust.com]
http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2001/0712/ photo/s_erving_si.jpg [starwave.com]
http://www.remembertheaba.com/TributeMaterial/360- drj002a.jpg [remembertheaba.com]
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/ach ievers/erv0-000 [achievement.org]
I also didn't know what he looked like until just now
Some *really* vintage athletes (Score:1)
My sports heroes when I was growing up were Vincent, Gronk, Crudla, Glunk, Thag, and Ugha [emuunlim.com].
Mike Tysons Super Punch Out (Score:2)
Shaquille O'Neal (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Shaquille O'Neal (Score:1)
Without so much as glancing at the instructions, we nearly beat it in one try, but we had to stop because we were laughing too hard. As a fighting game, it's so bad I tend to think they shipped a beta. But the Shaq-
Re:Shaquille O'Neal (Score:2)
The commercials are almost as bad as the game. I have to find some way to digitize them so we don't let EA forget that they made this game.
Re:Remembering the "not-so-famous" (Score:2)
hed.
Pete Rose videogame (Score:2)
Rambling memories (Score:3, Interesting)
The one sports personality I remember fondly (and, I must admit, solely) through his digital incarnation is Daley Thompson, the game being Daley Thompson's Supertest on the Commodore 64. It was just a decathlon type game, ten events, three lives, you know the deal. But it obviously made quite an impression on me, because I still clearly remember all of the events, from the pistol shooting (you could move the cursor down and left, but not up or right) to the incredibly frustrating giant slalom, which I never did get the hang of.
Anyway, I've rambled enough. Maybe I'll see if i can dig my c64 out of the attic, and have a few games of Wizball, and Ricochet while I'm at it. (Yes, I have an emulator, but it's just not the same, is it?)
Re:Rambling memories (Score:1)
Re:Tecmo Super Bowl (Score:3, Funny)
QB Eagles (aka Randall Cunningham). Pick a pass play, QB sneak/draw and run it for 80 yards.
Jerry Rice - he would catch ANYTHING you threw at him. Anything.
Christian Okoye - the running back that couldn't be tackled. Defensive players bounced off of him.
Barry Sanders - a close second at the RB position to Bo Jackson. Barry had some speed in that game.
Re:Tecmo Super Bowl (Score:1)
ESPN has done this (Score:2)
baseball [news.com.au] and
football. [news.com.au] I like that they think Bo wouldn't have been anything special were it not for his video game legacy.
Hed.
I'm an idiot... read this next (Score:2)
baseball [go.com] and
football [go.com]
That's what I get for updating my website at the same time. On the plus side, those articles are rather humorous...
Hed.
Re:ESPN has done this (Score:2)
I hate it when people think that - since you obviously never looked at his statistics. Sure, he never had 1000 yards rushing in football (he'd join the Raiders at midseason because of when baseball season ended so would've missed the preseason + 5-6 regular season games) - but still very few running backs in the last 20 years have had as good a yards per carry average. Add to that he still remains the only
Re:ESPN has done this (Score:2)
You ask most professional sports folks who the great athlete was in the later 1900s and most would say Bo Jackson.
True for even new games (Score:2)
So if his team was any good, you can STILL PLAY as Bo.
But does Bo know that?
Re:True for even new games (Score:1)
Vick (Score:2)
Agreed on Vick, my friends and I had to make a "No Falcons" rule to prevent Atlanta from winning every game. Whoever has Vick has a TREMENDOUS advantage, it's easy to rack up 300+ rushing yards per game with M. Vick.
Re:Vick (Score:1)
Jesse Owens (Score:2)
Simon Davies - Championship Manager 3 (Score:2)
So many other obscure players have come to my attention thorugh this game before they were famous, Joseba Exteberria of Spain and all those amazing and amazingly cheap Djurgarden players. Ahh, wish I wasn't at work...
I feel old... (Score:1)
Seriously, is "vintage" the right word to use for something that was more or less 15 years ago? Jeez.
Bo was freaking awesome (Score:2)
Also, I can't believe I haven't heard mention of Derrick Thomas from Techmo SuperBowl. Made Lawrence Taylor look like a wimp. When Derrick was in "Excellent" condition I could rush the quarterback, and if he managed to throw the bomb, get back on defense before the pass got to the receiver. Derrick is litera