Sports Titles Named Misleadingly?

According to an accusatory column in the sports section of the New York Post, naming the 2003-season sports videogame titles as 'Sports Game Title 2004' is dishonest. The writer suggests that "..when it comes to selling video games.. Major League Baseball and all big-league sports eagerly sell their licenses and logos to manufacturers who can't or won't tell the simplest and most significant of truths.." Have you been confused by this naming method, or do you think it's fair and understandable?

Comments

So _that's_ why

[david duncan scott]

Red Grange appears in Madden 2003!

What about ChessMaster 4000?

[ConceptJunkie]

I thought I was getting technology from 2 millenia in the future! Those lying bastards!

What about Mystery Science Theater 3000, or even worse, the Gruntmaster 9000?! What about Warhammer 40000?!?!?!!!

It's worse than you can imagine!

I don't like sport so much.

[trouser]

Or sport.
You know what I like ? Beer and pizza. Where are all the beer and pizza games ? Remember that one where the kid delivered papers ? That was a stupid game, I hated that game and you could never quite control him properly and he kept hitting the mail box and I think there were little dogs maybe I don't know but sports games I know about and I don't care for them at all, didn't I used to get beat up by sports guys at school ? And now I'm supposed to relive my worst memories of high school by immersing myself in simulations of the activities these boneheads held sacred ? That blows goats. I liked the one on the Intellivision with the baseball. The crowd cheering sounded a bit like a crowd cheering. Or like a radio tuned to no station in particular playing static. But a bit like a crowd. The capital of Finland is Helsinki.