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Old sports games you still play?

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Old sports games are generally considered worthless after a year. However, there's those that simply outdo the monotonous annual release. Which do you still play?

NFL Street 2 - Love the soundtrack and taking created teams through the "Own The City" mode.

EA Sports MMA - Technically the predecessor to the EA UFC series so I'll count it. Roster aged really well (even has Kron Gracie) and a badass soundtrack. I can easily go 40-0 on Legend difficulty on career mode from how much I've played this game lol. I love spinning heel kicking cans in Strikeforce and fake PRIDE.
 
NBA Jam
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NBA Hangtime

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NFL Blitz

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Still way more fun than the Maddens being pumped out today
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EDIT: Didn't read title correctly.
 
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UFC Undisputed 3, Fight Night Champion, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz & EA Sports MMA.
 
Tennis Nes, Blades of Steel, RBI Baseball, maybe a little 10 yard fight...
 
I still play madden 08. Bought 2010 and didn’t care for it and went back. Wore out two copies so far but they’re super cheap to replace.

Of course tecmo bowl, super spike vball, Nbajam, and nba live 95 get dusted off every once in a while.

College slam is pretty cool too. Just like nbajam but you can move their stats around and the dick vitale commentator says shit like keg party to celebrate a dunk.
 
Punch Out!! is the only one I can honestly say I still play. Projectyle maybe, but that's not a real sport (yet!).

Played Toukon Club Pro-Wrestling recently but I don't know if that counts, wrestling is a real sport only as a game. UFC on the Dreamcast and the later THQ UFC games were fun and I could still enjoy those today I'm sure, but not without someone about as good as myself to fight with.
 
Ken Griffey's Major League Baseball, the N64 version

I played a lot of the NBA Street 2 demo
 
NFL 2K5, PRIDE FC, EA MMA , Grand Slam Tennis 2, Fight Night Champion.
 
Fifa Street on all platforms

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Sega Dreamcast Virtua Tennis

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Tennis for the NES

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Excite bike for the NES and arcade archive on the switch

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Punch Out on NES and arcade archives on the switch

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Ready 2 Rumble boxing on the Dreamcast

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And UFC on the Dreamcast.

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Tecmo Super Bowl. IIRC, they make annual updates with roster changes still.

 
Old sports games are generally considered worthless after a year. However, there's those that simply outdo the monotonous annual release. Which do you still play?

NFL Street 2 - Love the soundtrack and taking created teams through the "Own The City" mode.

EA Sports MMA - Technically the predecessor to the EA UFC series so I'll count it. Roster aged really well (even has Kron Gracie) and a badass soundtrack. I can easily go 40-0 on Legend difficulty on career mode from how much I've played this game lol. I love spinning heel kicking cans in Strikeforce and fake PRIDE.
Techno super bowl on nes is still the greatest football game of all time.
 
Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)
Mike Tyson's Punchout (NES)
Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing (Genesis)
NHL '94 (Genesis)
Baseball Stars (NES)
Excitebike (NES)
 

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