Tag: sports

Side Pocket

A decent attempt at pocket pool.

HAL Wrestling

A sort of precursor to Fire ProWrestling, by Human Entertainment themselves… but definitely not as good.

Extra Bases

Take your family to the stadium in this rebranded entry from Namco’s long-running Famista series. (It’s baseball.)

Skate or Die: Bad ’n Rad

The x-treme skating series gets weird for Game Boy with a… 2D skateboard-based platformer?

Battle Ping Pong

Before Ogre Battle, there was… Battle Ping Pong? Sure, why not.

Heavyweight Championship Boxing

Game Boy’s first boxing title takes a lot of inspiration from Punch-Out!!… and then just keeps adding stuff and adding stuff, until it collapses into a heap of…

Soccer Mania

A startlingly wretched take on soccer (the other football) whose only interesting points are its bizarrely huge sprites and the fact that it may have been produced by…

NFL Football

Game Boy’s first American football release, and its first U.S.-only release. Coincidence? Naw. Konami clings to the outer edges of competence by a thread with this one — it’s…

Penguin Wars

A head-to-head competitive dodgeball game featuring cute animals, because why not? This is a two-player port of a single-player arcade game, and also the Penguin-kun Wars series’ sole journey…

Bases Loaded for Game Boy

  Bases Loaded for Game Boy isn’t actually Bases Loaded, although it is for Game Boy. The popularity of the Bases Loaded name in the U.S. evidently prompted…

World Bowling

The first of what would be many bowling-based games by developer Athena, World Bowling for Game Boy was a nice try… but you can tell this is a…

Golf

The testament of a great game: Even if you don’t care about the subject matter or genre, a player can still appreciate its quality and refinement. So it goes…

Malibu Beach Volleyball

Volleyball is one of the worst possible sports you can turn into a video game. That’s probably why there are so few of them; to the best of…

Tennis

Nintendo is not simply some monolithic entity when it comes to the actual creation of games. There is no slab-like “Nintendo” object that stamps out games on an assembly line. (Also,…

Baseball

Nintendo didn’t launch the Game Boy in Europe until late 1990 – more than a year after the Japanese and American launches. Unlike with consoles, power standards weren’t the…