The Best Sports Games for Gamers Who Don’t Like Sports
May 2, 2012 at 8:24 pm | Posted in Features | 1 CommentTags: Best sports games for non sports gamers, Blades of Steel, gaming, Inazuma Eleven, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Mario Golf, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, MLB Power Pros, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, Punch-out!!, Retro Sports Gaming, Snackbar Games, Sports Champions, sports video games, video games, Virtua Tennis
Don’t like sports? There’s a whole segment of video games you can immediately write off, as far as you’re concerned. Or can you? You don’t have to be a comics fan to like Batman: Arkham City, and the appeal of Mario isn’t just limited to plumbing aficionados. Retro Sports Gamer World partnered up with Snackbar Games to help with a list of games you should check out even if they have sports in them, because you’re missing out on a lot of fun.
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NFL Blitz Returns: Does the Comeback Fall Short?
January 12, 2012 at 5:41 pm | Posted in Reviews | 2 CommentsTags: EA Sports, NFL Blitz, Playstation 3, PSN, Retro Gaming, retro video games, Sports games, video games, XBLA, Xbox 360
Off the heels of releasing NBA Jam: On Fire Edition as a download-only title, EA Sports has dusted off another former Midway license and brought back the original NFL arcade masterpiece, NFL Blitz. An arcade hit in the late ‘90s, the series spawned console releases for six straight years before sequel fatigue led to poor sales and an eventual cancellation. No stranger themselves to arcade football titles like the NFL Street series and a Madden Arcade download-only game, could EA resurrect the NFL Blitz franchise to its previous glory?
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Game Planning for NFL Blitz: A Retrospective on the Series
December 30, 2011 at 12:39 am | Posted in Features | 6 CommentsTags: Blitz: The League, Blitz: The League II, Dreamcast, EA Sports, Electronic Arts, football, football games, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, GameCube, Midway, NFL, NFL Blitz, NFL Blitz 20-02, NFL Blitz 20-03, NFL Blitz 2000, NFL Blitz 2001, NFL Blitz Pro, NFL Blitz Special Edition, Nintendo 64, Playstation, PlayStation 2, Retro Gaming, Sports games, video games, Xbox
Midway’s NFL Blitz piggybacked on the fun, over-the-top atmosphere of NBA Jam and rocked arcades and home consoles in the late ‘90s. Unique in a crowded marketplace with its fast-paced arcade 7-on-7 NFL action, NFL Blitz spanned numerous systems during its run and sold millions of copies. Unfortunately, the series would suffer from poor sales, sequel fatigue, and an eventual loss of the NFL license, resulting in the franchise stepping away from the virtual gridiron. When Midway went bankrupt in 2009, Electronic Arts purchased the license for NFL Blitz and now, some three years later, the first true NFL Blitz offering since 2002 will be debuting on January 4th, 2012 across the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. There is palatable excitement as a series reboot is always looked forward to by gamers, especially as the NFL Blitz name once carried some serious prestige. As we get ready for a new release, let’s take a look back at the history of the franchise and how we got to where we are today.
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