I know sports video games often don't have the best reputation, that's mostly thanks to their current direction of monopolies focused on PvP online play only to capitalize on microtransactions as much as it can. However it wasn't always like this, video games began with titles like Tennis For Two and Pong, sports are fundamental to this medium, I have many fond memories of playing video games based on sports I like, either arcade or simulation, often something in between, it's all a treat if done well. It'd be cool to have a thread for this genre for once especialy since retro is where this genre truly peaked with its direction.

Blue Lock got me in a mood for playing with U-20 Japan in Winning Eleven 2000 for PS1, one of the few, if not the only, good Olympic video game based on the sport, at least that I know of really.

I like the ISSS games

>>11793356 (OP)
>Blue Lock
>he does not even have the deceny to at least post a retro football anime like Captain Tsubasa or Shoot!
go back to /a/nus, we don't welcome your kind around here

My experience with sports games is mainly with the FIFA Street series and the Inazuma Eleven games.

sports games only existed to provided donor cartridges to future homebrew

>>11793356 (OP)
Sports games with heavily arcade-ized mechanics are really where it's at.

I learned the rules of baseball and football from Atari and NES games. I guess the same will be true of soccer once I get around to finally playing a soccer video game.

I liked sports games okay as a kid, but my favorite was Baseball Simulator 1.000 because it let you use superpowers that actually made the game interesting in video gamey ways, instead of just making you play plain old baseball.

>>11793385
Have you watched or read Blue Lock before, anon? If not, I recommend it, it's unlike any sports anime/manga I've seen.

>>11793356 (OP)
I have an unhealthy fascination for PES 6. I hold it to an almost mythical regard, because it meant so much to me and my little town.
I also learned a lot about geography and even history through sports games as a kid.

you probably don't have golf in mind but this is great

>>11793356 (OP)
Video games transcended the medium of sports. Sports are not complex. It's one team versus the other.
Video games can go further than that. And better yet, nobody is at risk of busting up their kneecap at the risk of some roided out junkie who is too determined to win.

>>11793356 (OP)
I would be willing to get into more sports games if they had an actual tutorial for people not familiar with the terminology, basic flow of a match and what the game requires to play it.

I learned to appreciate hockey games, the NHL games are fun.

>>11793763
Fair, but at the same time why would you play something if you know *nothing* about the sport its adapting? Surely it's not too much to ask that you've at least watched a match and/or know a bit about the basic rules, right? To get into American football I watched a few matches and read about the rules, which made me interested in taking on some of the retro titles based on them.

>>11793825
I've childhood memories of provoking fistfights in atleast 1 or 2 hockey games. One of them had a life bar and everything, I'd skate with the sole purpose of starting a fight and didn't care how the game was unfolding lol

>>11793884
It's tough when the manuals are impossible to find for certain games, specially if the game doesn't show you the controls, PC versions are the worst in that regard. Also I tried to get into Madden stuff but it didn't click with me.

>>11793630
It's just a football manga with *attitude*. I mean, I like it, but if you look at it in any other way than simple entertainment, you'd be disappointed. Giant Killing is the better *football* manga and manga in general.

>>11793356 (OP)
You made this thread in sleepychan. Retard.

>>11793902
Fair enough. Madden might be a bit too complicated, I'd go with more arcade styled ones for good fun without being too into the real sport, the moment you get into simulators they expect you to be a bit of a nerd for the sport in the first place, which is why they tend to have less mass appeal, both types are good depending on the context they're played in though, give it a try, anon!

>>11794314
I wouldn't sum it up like that, it's not giving it enough credit, it purposefully goes against pretty much all sports manga and films with the message of being egotistical and going for your own goal, which I think is welcome in some places of life where we do need to look for ourselves a bit more and try to improve instead of depending on others, it's a bold direction that works well.

>>11794336
I browse many imageboards I like, what's wrong with making similarly themed threads?