Nester, the one-time bad boy of comic fame, brings you the funkiest game of bowling you'll ever experience in 3-D. Finally fans can throw a strike without putting on ill-fitting shoes!
Hester, the unknown twin sister, makes her debut appearance. Watch out as the action picks up and the tensions build for these hot-headed bowlers. Their egos clash with outlandish gestures and funky expressions.
Sony Computer Entertainment's first foray into the world of professional ice hockey. The game was made for the 1995-1996 NHL season and the FaceOff brand continued into the 21st Century.
This is the first installment in the NFL GAMEDAY series, and it has all the players, teams, stadiums, stats, and injuries that you see in the real NFL in fact, this game is so realistic it could even fool the most diehard fans into thinking they're watching a game on TV, not playing one. There is a wide variety of offensive and defensive moves you can use to make things easier, including dives, spins, hurdles, jukes, and stiff arms on offense; and dives, jumps, forearm bashes, and swim moves on defense. Basically, if you've seen it done in the real NFL, then chances are you'll see it in NFL GAMEDAY. Things like long snap counts, men in motion, and defensive stunts can all be found in the game, giving you an NFL experience like no other. You can also take on a friend in versus mode, and see who is the king of the gridiron.
World Series Baseball '96 is a follow-up to the previous two Genesis games in the series with the rosters and stats of the 1995 MLB season as well as the schedule for the 1996 season. It has all 700 players and 28 teams and stadiums. The game types include Exhibition, League, Playoffs, Batting Practice, Homerun Derby, and Classic Homerun Derby. There is also a possibility to play an All-Star game. Trading can be enabled or disabled and the season length options are 13, 26, 52, 104 and 162.
September is a wonderful time of year as the leaves start to change, the kids go back to school, and Christmas is only a few months away but it also means the college football season. Well, now you can stage your own college football season anytime you want thanks to COLLEGE FOOTBALL USA '97. Choose from 111 Division I teams and hit the gridiron for some hard-hitting football action as you try to lead your team to the national championship. There are eight different conferences in which you can compete ACC, Big 12, Big East, SEC, WAC, Big 10, Conference USA, and PAC 10 each with their own style of play. If you don't have time for a full schedule, customize your own tournament with up to 16 players! If you're ready to lead your team to the Promised Land of college football, then get your hands on COLLEGE FOOTBALL USA '97.
TNN Outdoors Bass Tournament '96 is the sequel to TNN Bass Tournament of Champions. It shares many elements with the PC game of the same name, but that version has an isometric-style map and a full 3D view for the fishing sequences. Just like the original game it is a fishing simulator that allows the player to access a free fishing mode or to participate in a fishing tournament. First, equipment needs to be bought. It consists of lures, rods, reels, lines and boats. Better items can only be acquired by winning money in tournaments.
Athlete Kings is a conversion of the 1995 Sega coin-op Decathlete in which you get to compete in all 10 events involved in a Decathlon. The game is split into two modes. First is the Decathlon mode itself in which you can play through all 10 events in standard order.
Points are awarded for your performance in each event and, when completed, you will be rewarded with your final decathlon score. There is also Arcade Mode which, unsurprisingly, is a straight port of the arcade game.
In this you can select which of 5 events you want to play from day one but must achieve a qualifying mark on that event in order to progress. Once you've qualified from all five events you then move on to the next five in day 2.
Your goal is to topple the Champ, a perfect fighter who was born to become the heavyweight champion of the world. But, you must defeat 30 Chumps to get to the Champ, and they won't go down without a fight. Work on your jabs, hooks, and uppercuts along with your blocking and footwork. Master the devastating multi-hit combos, and you just might have a shot at the Champ. But will you be good enough?
One of only two tennis games released for the Saturn. Features include a 3 modes of play (tournament, exhibition and practice), 3 playing surfaces and 10 players.
Valora Valley Golf is an exaggerated approach to the world of golfing. While it does feature traditional golf course hazards like water hazards and bunkers, lava pits and greens on top of a mountain are also present.
The courses ranges from basic looking golf courses with long fairways where the player can drive the ball 450 yards in one shot and giant water hazards to ancient ruins and a course inside of a volcano.
The controls are simplistic, click one time to bring up a meter, clicking again to set the angle and once more for how much power to drive the ball with special shots are obtained at the end of the meter. It doesn't feature any real life golfers or courses.
Get ready to take it to the hole with Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar in Slam 'N Jam '96: featuring Magic & Kareem! Featuring fully rendered 3D arenas, players can execute the ever-famous sky-hook, pull off no-look passes, view instant replays for spectacular plays, and set up all kinds of offensive and defensive strategies. Additionally, Van Earl Wright returns as the play-by-play commentator!
Slam 'N Jam '96 features a few gameplay options including the Exhibition Game, Season, and Playoffs modes. The Exhibition is a single game of basketball using any of the teams. This is ideal for new players as it will get them accustomed to the gameplay mechanics and various controls. On the other hand, starting a new Playoffs session will save you the time and hassle of going through an actual season of basketball. Choose your favorite team and guide them to the finals!
The introduction in the manual says: "Welcom to Sampras Extreme. The ultimate tennis simulation featuring the ultimate tennis player. The most realistic, and exciting tennis simulation awaits you and your friends. Play single matches of your choice in exotic locations around the world. See the spectacular stadiums, sample the local native language and view the breathtaking 3 D action. Meet the game´s characters and find out what makes one tick. Monster serves, ´baseline´ tactics, ´rush to the net´ tactics, you´ll have to cope with them all. Plunge yourself into the Sampras Extreme World Tour and see how high in the rankings you can reach. You´ll have to adopt extreme tactics of your own if you´re going to come face to face with The World Number One - Pete Sampras, let alone beat him. even then, there is more to come...
NBA Jam Extreme features many of the top players from the 1996–97 NBA season. Rosters accurate as of September 11, 1996, with some notable omissions. Chief among them were Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal. Jordan and O'Neal had contracts with Electronic Arts that resulted in the Jordan game Chaos in the Windy City and O'Neal appearing in Shaq-Fu and the NBA Live games. Barkley had signed a deal with Accolade to appear in its Barkley Shut Up and Jam! games.
Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97 is an updated version of Sensible World of Soccer: European Championship Edition. The only addition are the updated team rosters.
SWOS is a top down football/management game, with either quick game or 20-year career player-manager options. The games are set to last 3 minutes, but the 20-year career can suck in your entire life for a few months. The graphics are kept very small so the player can orientate themselves on the pitch without need for a radar. The controls are simple, easy to get used to and very effective. In the full career mode you can jump from club-to-club buying any of the game's 29000+ players, as well as play around with team tactics.
And you can choose from 1400 teams over the five continents.
While the Linux/Macintosh/Windows are just the emulated DOS version, the Xbox 360 has some genuine changes: online multiplayer, updated graphics (the graphical style and the top-down perspective are kept) and dynamic advertisements. The team rosters are still based on sea
In this semi-fmv game you play a rookie facing his first game as starting quarterback on a fictional team, and this just happens to be The Big Game.
The entire game consists of this confrontation, upon start of the game you watch a video of a kickoff and return, and then you get to select among 110 plays (100 passing and 10 running) and assing a snap count. The meat of the game is on the passing plays, were you are switched to a 3rd person behind-the-quarterback view from which you can see oncoming rushers as well as zoom in on any receiver and via a targeting cursor make passes, or scramble if you don't find any open man, etc.
Actua Golf (known as VR Golf '97 in North America) is a sports video game developed by Gremlin Interactive for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It was released in October 1996.
It was followed by Actua Golf 2 (known as Fox Sports Golf '99 in North America), also developed by Gremlin Interactive for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. It was released in September 1997 for the PlayStation and May 1998 for Windows. Actua Golf 2 received mixed reviews. Aggregating review website GameRankings gave the PC version 70.50%[7] and the PlayStation version 38.75%.[8]
The third and final game, Actua Golf 3, was developed by Gremlin and released on the PlayStation in 1999. The game received an average score of 70.50% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 2 reviews.[9]