NFL Gameday 98 Sorry for no post last week, got a little busy. Figured I would get back into it with another genre I haven’t touched yet, sports games. Yes, there used to be football games other than Madden. Way back in the old days, we had options. Tecmo Super Bowl was the first king of the digital gridiron, but that didn’t last past the 90s. In the early 'aughts, the NFL 2K series (which I find to be massively overrated) scared EA so much that they decided to buy exclusive rights to the NFL license, essentially cornering the market on football video games. Of course, this exclusivity wouldn’t apply to first party developers. It’s how Sony was able to keep making “MLB: The Show” titles after 2K sports bought exclusivity to the MLB license as a measure of revenge against EA. They could have continued making Gameday titles as well, but decided against it. Why? The PS1 era Gameday’s were widely considered to be superior to the Madden titles
Old school game reviews and discussion, from the unfamiliar and obscure to the classics you know and love.