

It's the first time I remember a video game feeling like actual baseball was being portrayed. It hasn't aged worth a shit, but it's the best game we had available to us. This was the best baseball game on the Genesis. This was fun even though it was technically illegal in Mississippi until 1998. Anyway, I didn't know much about soccer when this game came out in 1994, but I know a good game. My town was very poor and narrow-minded, so we didn't have soccer leagues. All the PGA Tour games on the Genesis were great, but I liked III the best. I didn't hunt but I gambled and played PGA Tour, so when I found out they snuck a Genesis into the trailer and were playing 5 dollars a hole, I took my 13-year-old ass down there and smoked them. The only reason it didn't land higher on this list is because the list is loaded.įun fact: My uncle Doug and his stuck-up Alabama shitbag friends used to spend the first weekend of deer hunting season by visiting town and staying in Doug's old singlewide trailer that sat on my dad's cocaine-fueled purchase of an empty 3-acre lot at the end of Truman Creek Road. People shit their pants when this game came out.

The first Joe Montana game is actually my favorite football game on the system but I'm in the extreme minority on that position so I held off. In fairness, Madden won the Genesis Football battle but I enjoyed the Montana series more at the time. This is for my 35-40-year-old dads out there whose life is practically over and knows we might as well look back at better times before we check out.

You young ones aren't gonna love this one.

In the 90's, though, it was the Sega Genesis. It would continue as I failed out of multiple colleges because of my Madden/NCAA habit on PS2. This started on the Nintendo Entertainment System, as I spent most of my time playing Tecmo Bowl, Baseball Stars and Blades of Steel. In my life, I've played other video games but sports games are the only ones that hold my attention and the only ones I have a passion for. Plus my mom bought it for me as a treat while my dad was off on an extended vacation. In 1991, I became the first kid on my block to own a Sega Genesis, as the government money was particularly good that spring. I cared about video games, picking winners for my degenerate grandfather and playing basketball. But in the early-to-mid 90's, I didn't care about any of that.
