>>11959325
Sport games used to be played by nerds (see pic related, casually listing sports game among the rest), this dichotomy between "sports" and "hardcore gaming" is mostly a thing that appeared starting with the 6th and 7th gen as the "hardcore gamer" wanted to say something to appear "hardcore".
People wrongly retroactively apply to logic to old games because that's what retards do: they apply modern gaming logic to old games.