GI: While the current obsession with delivering realism in sports games has given fans the chance to rewrite history with their favorite teams, the high stakes world of expensive licenses and yearly releases has significantly diminished the number of options for sports gamers. Before the days when EA Sports and 2K Sports dominated the landscape, developers often skipped authenticity in favor of fantastical, comedic takes on team sports. Here is a handful of our favorite and most reviled off-kilter sports games from eras past. While many of these titles were indefensible abominations that tried gamers’ patience with terrible control schemes and repetitive 8-bit soundtracks, they injected a healthy dose of irreverent fun that is largely lacking today.
Base Wars, and Super Baseball Simulator 1000= THE SHIT!