International soccer

Occasionally I surf the net and I see some people talking about 'old' games but as soon as I read the specifics they are often talking about games that are like 3-4 years old and I think to myself that's not really old now is it. This game called…

Decathlon, The Activision

Decathlon or The Activision Decathlon as the full name is is about the sporting event where you have to compete in ten different events. These are: 100m dash, longjump, 110m hurdles, discus throw, javelin throw, 400m dash, polevault, shotput,…

World championship squash

I have to admit that I have never played a game of squash in real life before and I have no idea of how the game is played and what the rules are. From playing the game I figured that the basics are fairly simple and you have to bounce a ball…

Jockey Wilson’s dart challenge

Any game has most likely been converted to a computer or videogame and darts is no exception. To increase sales or recognition this particular game includes Jockey Wilson, a darts player who was world champion at one time famous not only for…

Hardball!

I have to admit that I've never really been into sports games, true occasionally there have been some that were fun to play most of which were multiplayer ones though. Hardball is a baseball game/simulator which incorperates a number of things…

Face off!

Games have been made about pretty much every popular sport out there and icehockey is no exception. Faceoff lets you control one team and you can either play a single match or a whole season of competition. Games are played in three periods…

Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing

I've seen plenty of boxing games throughout the years ranging from simple arcade style one to pretty nifty almost simulation like ones. Barry McGuigang world championship boxing (aka star rank boxing) is somewhere in the middle I'd say. You…

Jordan vs. Bird – one on one

It's quite common for a well known person to 'sponsor' a product but not often do you see two people in the same game. Jordan vs. Bird - one on one is a basketball game in which you can take control of one of them and play against the other…

Winter games

The games series created by epyx were very popular in its days and it spawned several different games. Winter games was the first in the series that revolved around the winter olympics but it has the classic formula with each player selecting…

Kick off

Soccer is something that you either hate or love, I belong to the former group. It's probably because of this that I don't like games based on soccer as well but kick off is an exception. Kick off isn't the usual soccer game in that the action…