Tag Archives: Sports

Pro Wrestling

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Nathan White

Pro Wrestling’s charm, playability, and admiration for its source material work in tandem to create a satisfying and rewarding wrestling game experience, which history shows is no small feat.

Posted in games | Tagged Human Entertainment, Masato Masuda, Sports | Leave a comment

Vollyball

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Nathan White

The only true stinker of the early Disk System titles, Vollyball is composed entirely of esoteric mechanics and half-baked design choices that make the game a near-unplayable mess. Nintendo missed the mark, and future vollyball games would do it much, … Continue reading →

Posted in 1986, games | Tagged Koji Kondo, Nintendo, Nintendo R&D1, Pax Softnica, Sports | Leave a comment

Soccer

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Nathan White

Originally a Famicom cartridge release, Soccer plays surprising well for its age. Nintendo RD&D1 succeeded in synthesizing a robust and entertaining adaptation of the worlds most popular sport.

Posted in 1986, games, Launch Games | Tagged Intelligent Systems, Koji Kondo, Nintendo, Nintendo R&D1, Sports | Leave a comment

Golf

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Nathan White

More important for the mechanics that it pioneered than for the game itself, Golf is another example of how Nintendo was truly innovative and had a knack for creating game play concepts that would be later become industry standards.

Posted in 1986, games, Launch Games | Tagged Kenji Miki, Koji Kondo, Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto, Sports | Leave a comment

Tennis

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Nathan White

Tennis. You guessed it, it’s Tennis. One of Nintendo’s simple yet dependable early sports titles actually introduced some new ideas that took video tennis well beyond the Pong-styled clones previously tasked with representing the sport.

Posted in 1986, games, Launch Games | Tagged Intelligent Systems, Nintendo, Nintendo R&D1, Shigeru Miyamoto, Sports | Leave a comment

Baseball

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Nathan White

Baseball is lacklustre, at times boring, often frustrating and an overall badly dated video game experience whose importance lies not in lasting innovation, but rather in unique historical context.