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FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
1997
star 8.1The late-1997 edition of FIFA was heavily tied in with the qualifying procedure for the 1998 World Cup. In the Road to the World Cup mode, you take a team from first qualification through to the main tournament, using the varying systems in different parts of the world. The game features 16 distinct outdoor stadia. The League play features 189 clubs and 11 leagues. Each team has specific crowd chants incorporated into the ambient sound. The action is faster than in previous versions, and AI has been expanded. Players have distinct facial feature and hair styles. Each match is introduced by Des Lynam and commentated on by John Motson and former Scotland international Andy Gray.Famista 64
1997
64 Oozumou
1997
64 Oozumou
1997
64 Oozumou adresses the everyday life of japanese sumo wrestlers, simulating not only fights but also focusing on training, diet and social interactions.Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No.1: Aki no Zenkoku Tournament
1997
A SoundLink game using "糸井重里のバス釣りNo.1 (Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No.1)". Only players who own the "Bass Tsuri No.1" game can participate in the event, otherwise the player participates in the garbage-picking-up event. The players compete for total weight of five basses. 100 higher-ranking winners qualify for the final tournament. Shigesato Itoi, bass professional Kawabe, Ogimori Jyunko Hagimori, and Kyoko Koizumi appeared on the event.Tennis Arena
1997
Tennis Arena
1997
With no stat tweaking and no licenses, Tennis Arena is arcade-style tennis at its most fundamental. What you have here is single-match or tournament play for up to four players with wacky characters and a few different courts to play on. You can play an obese Chinese man, for example, and compete in a Roman coliseum whose clay surface seems to affect bounce marginally. That's about it for options though. No sim, Tennis Arena serves up roughly the same level of fun as Pong did 25 years ago, albeit now with prettier graphics and the occasional super smash. The game also features special shots, with visible trails, fighter-plane-like sound effects, and higher ball speed. These must be earned however. After successfully returning the ball over the net six consecutive times, a yellow star appears under the character. You may then attempt to use the special shot, which entails lining up with the ball just right - but a failed special shot doesn't erase the stored potential.NFL Blitz
1997
NFL Blitz
1997
star 7.9NFL Blitz takes the idea of a normal football video game and turns it on its head with fewer players, bigger hits, and lots of personality.Jack Nicklaus 5
1997
NBA Action 98
1997
Backyard Baseball
1997
Backyard Baseball
1997
star 7.5Backyard Baseball was the first game created for the PC by Humongous Entertainment in 1997. It is a one player game. The game consists of 55 neighbourhood kids to pick from to join your baseball team. Each kid has different stats so pick wisely.NFL Quarterback Club 98
1997
Do you have the courage to be an NFL quarterback? The same folks that brought you TUROK have turned their attentions to the gridiron and have brought great graphics, realistic action, and lots of options to the sport. With full licenses from the NFL and its athletes, the game has all of the teams and players, plus perfect replications of logos and stadiums. Just to assure that the artificial intelligence was high and the gameplay realistic, the developers coaxed Brett Favre into designing some of the plays.NCAA Football '98
1997
NCAA Football '98
1997
NCAA FOOTBALL '98 gives those of us who never attended Florida State or Michigan the complete college football experience. Play modes include Exhibition, Tournament, Great Games, Season, Practice, and Dynasty. You get 112 Division I-A teams and their stadiums, so you'll likely find your favorite major college team on the roster. The most exciting feature is a Dynasty mode that allows you to take a college team through multiple seasons. While the game does your recruiting for you, you can specify what types of players you need to bolster your team. If you're having a hard time finding a specific type of player, play, or team, you can take advantage of the Create-A-Player, Create-A-Play, or Create-A-School features. Now you can know the feeling of being in a bowl game playing in front of 10,000 fans, thanks to NCAA FOOTBALL '98.PGA Tour '98
1997
PGA Tour '98
1997
Go on the links with EA Sports' PGA TOUR '98. The game features five championship courses: the exclusively licensed Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Bay Hill Club, TPC of Scottsdale, Colonial Country Club, and TPC at Sawgrass. Each course has been designed using actual blueprints of the real courses, resulting in amazingly realistic graphics. Every hole features the real characteristics and surroundings of the real thing, including trees on the fairways, sloping hills, huge bunkers, and tricky greens. Compete as or against 14 PGA Tour pros, including Mark O'Meara, Lee Janzen, Davis Love III, and Brad Faxon. All 14 pros' swings and unique post-shot reactions were digitized into the game to give you the most realistic golf experience imaginable.Actua Soccer 2
1997
Actua Soccer 2
1997
Actua Soccer 2 or sometimes Actua Soccer 98 due to its capitalization on the 1998 FIFA World Cup was one of the many football titles released to capitalize on the 1998 World Cup, and once again included national teams, but a more polished engine (optimized in the PC version for 3D graphics cards), (in some versions) the full Italian Serie A league, and a new "scenario" mode assured good sales and mostly positive reviews. It also included a team creator mode, which enabled the player to make up to 128 custom teams. Barry Davies was joined by Trevor Brooking on the commentary, and the game featured England football team captain and striker Alan Shearer not only on the cover, but also providing interviews about the game in the press. Michael Owen and Simon Tracey provided motion capture for the players. The game also featured menu music and a cameo appearance from Welsh rockers, Super Furry Animals, which could only be activated after entering a cheat code. Actua Soccer 2 was also bundled with Creative Technology's VoNHL Powerplay '98
1997
NHL Powerplay '98
1997
NHL POWERPLAY '98 offers all the NHL teams. Not only are real NHL teams with real NHL players available, but several Olympic teams also make an appearance. The graphics are also one of the many strong points here polygonal player models move exceptionally well and possess some realistic animations, including high-sticking swipes and some hard-hitting body checks. Basically, if you've seen it in a real NHL game, chances are you'll see it in NHL POWERPLAY '98. You can also take on a friend in the Versus mode to see who's the king of the ice.Jimmy Johnson's VR Football '98
1997
As Interplay's first PlayStation football game under the VR Sports label, Jimmy Johnson's VR Football '98 offers both NFL and NFLPA licenses for real teams and players. Choose from 30 NFL teams with rosters reflecting the 1997 season, five of the greatest teams from the '70s, five from the '80s, five from the '60s, or five All-Pro Teams from 1996 and 1997. You can also create up to four preseason teams (plus one season team) and stock them with up to forty created players! The game features a Practice Mode, Preseason (which is an exhibition game), New Season and a Play Editor, allowing you to create your own offensive plays and save them to memory card (up to 24 plays can be saved for each block of space). Season progress can be resumed through passwords or via memory card, which offers you a choice between a regular or advanced memory card season. Regular means you can trade and create players, but the trades will be automatic and the created players always appear on your team. The advanced option lets you pDinoMight Baseball
1997
Pachi-Slot Kanzen Kouryaku Uni-Colle'97
1997
Pachi-Slot Kanzen Kouryaku Uni-Colle'97 is a pachi-slot game for the Sega Saturn.Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou! Twin 2
1997
Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou! Twin 2 is a Miscellaneous game, developed by TOSE and published by Sammy Studios, which was released in Japan in 1997.
