Sega saturn football games

The bit iteration of the game dropped the running commentary and reverted back to the simple, arcadey action of the very first Joe Montana sports title. While 32X and Saturn versions of the game were announced, to this day no gameplay footage or screenshots have been released.

It also employed a unique passing system where each throw had an arc to it, so you threw to a specific spot on the field instead of an open receiver. Oddly enough, it was the only in-house Sega football game released for the system, and the very next year, Sega decided to release the sequel as a Genesis exclusive. Today, this would be like Nintendo announcing that the next Pokemon game will be a DS-only release.

Released in May , it was one of the last games ever published for the Genesis, but to be honest, this game is hardly anything more than a repackaged version of the Prime Time game from two years earlier. The team Sega assembled to create the game was Visual Concepts, who handled the Super Nintendo versions of several Madden games back in the day. The first entry in the series fittingly enough, titled NFL 2K was a day one launch title for the Dreamcast, and was immediately hailed as a virtual sports masterpiece.

As iffy a job as Sega did with their first and only Sega Saturn football game, they more than made up for it with the inaugural edition of NFL 2K. Visual Concept outdid themselves a year later with NFL 2K1 , which was one of the first major sports games to offer modem-based online play, and followed that up with NFL 2K2 , the last in-house football game Sega ever published exclusively for their own console the game was ported to the PlayStation 2 shortly after Sega exited the hardware market in Not only were you able to collect classic Dreamcast-era music as Easter eggs, you could even draft iconic Sega characters as playable free agents.

The loss-leader approach worked and the title sold a ton of copies. Of course, we all know the fate that befell NFL 2K. This game uses a modified NFL 2K engine and stars a litany of retired football greats as playable characters including the man who started it all for Sega, Joe Cool himself.

Alas, the game underperformed and, to date, remains the last proper entry in the long-running football series. Will Sega ever return to its gridiron roots? At the moment it seems unlikely especially since Visual Concepts left the company a dozen years ago , but you never know.

The company seems to be having quite a bit of success with mobile sports games lately, and one developer has even teased resurrecting the Joe Montana Football I. Your email address will not be published. Post Comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. The peak of Sega Saturn hockey games both graphically and literally.

One fun fact about this game is that it includes Olympic teams which makes for some good retro gaming. The WorldWide Soccer series is the most highly regarded European football game for the console.

And who published it? They ran the gamut of sports games with their titles. Worldwide Soccer includes commentary from Jack Charlton, who is a former player and manager and serves as the color commentator to Jack Bloom. Madden 98 for Sega Saturn is a fun game.

In fact, the game was essentially ported to Nintendo 64 with slight graphic updates to create the infamous Madden I can tell you from experience that playing with the Raiders and 49ers is enjoyable. The quality of the game that aged the worst, was the sound.