![]() The environments and crowd noise in certain stadiums were rockin’ but before you even got to that point Brad Nessler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit blessed your pregame show with a cameo from the booth to make the game feel like real life. Because, nostalgia.įirst off, the presentation. ![]() There’s a case for this series being better once it hit the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2007, but I stand on my belief that 06 on the PS2 was the best ever in EA’s NCAA Football series. I don’t remember too many other specifics about this title but I know me and my friends used to play the dunk contest mode ad nauseam and that you could put all the latest shoes (Huarache 2k5 was my favorite) onto players. Put his shooting in this game up there with the Madden 2004 Michael Vick scrambles and the NCAA Football 06 Reggie Bush jukes. I remember being unnecessarily dominant with Voshon Lenard at the time and it drove my friends crazy (he rarely ever missed a three-pointer). But I have to bring you back in time to how great this video game was.Īs soon as you boot up the game you’re greeted by MC Lyte’s intro music that plays over a mix of in-game clips of your favorite players getting buckets. I don’t need to educate you on who was in the league in the mid-2000s. T-Mac, Kobe, Shaq, Vince, Yao, Iverson, etc. 2.ĮA Sports BIG knew exactly what they were doing with these titles.ĮASILY the game I spent the most time with as a kid. The original was a hit but I couldn’t stop playing Vol. And I was a bit young for Jam so I caught Street during it’s come up. The NBA Street series was like the NBA Jam of its time. Oh yeah, and you got to play with NBA legends almost all of them. Whoever had the most ridiculous handle with the ball or could break the most ankles was king, which is why this game was such a joy. Keep in mind, this was the AND 1 Mixtape era and that’s what I and all the other kids were into at the time. Because I can positively say that filling up that “Gamebreak” meter and then seeing that slow-motion highlight in NBA Street Vol. ![]() Remember when I mentioned how few things in like felt better than filling up that speed boost meter in SSX Tricky? Maybe that was a lie. From smacking the riders to the left and right of you during the race to the crazy number of tricks you could do while floating in the air, few things in life during that time felt more satisfying than filling up that “tricky” meter and unlocking the speed boosts throughout the race. Run DMC’s “Tricky” was a banger for a first-time listener like my then seven-or-eight-year-old self, and the characters were cool as heck. But SSX Tricky came along one year and I played at my friend’s house which made me forget all about the other sports for a while. You could sprinkle in a “ Ready 2 Rumble” or something like that in there every now and again, but they never really stuck for more than a few weeks. My sports video game consumption throughout my childhood was mainly limited to basketball and football. But can we agree that Keisha Phillips and Dante Robinson were low key versatile? We all agree that Pablo Sanchez was the GOAT and we used Pete Wheeler’s speed for just about every sport that required it. I sat in front of that chunky computer monitor and played them ALL until the CDs scratched or the games started freezing the computer. I must have been somewhere between the ages of four and eight when these games were at their peak. Backyard Soccer, Backyard Baseball, Backyard Football - how am I supposed to choose just one?! This will be the first and only time that I group multiple titles together. Here’s a list of the sports games (in chronological order) that have me chasing that child-like feeling. So as I await the day that I’m able to actually get my hands on a new gaming system, I’m stuck reminiscing on the good ole days. It turns out that not only are these consoles EXPENSIVE nowadays (they were always expensive but it was mom’s and dad’s money back then) but actually getting your hands on one of these things is like trying to purchase toilet paper at the beginning of quarantine. And now I’m deciding to buy one with the unrealistic expectation that it’ll magically give me that gaming passion that I once had when back when I was a young kid. Why? I don’t actually know, but I’ve now spent too much time on YouTube watching videos and going down the rabbit hole of all the video games I used to play. Sometime last month I got a random urge to grab a PS5.
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