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Vintage Athletes' Fame Lives On In Videogames

Posted by simoniker on from the back-when-everything-was-black-and-white dept.

JoeCotellese writes "Salon is running an article (ad click-through required) discussing how athletes live on in video games long past their retirement. In some cases, the article claims: 'The fond memories that a particular fan may have for a sports star owes more to the performance of his pixelated version than his actual on-court heroics'."

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  1. super nintendo? by drcobb · · Score: 2, Funny

    I haven't a clue who bill lambeer was but that basketball game for snes was awsome. perhaps that is another effect is that it makes us geeks know at least a little bit about sports.

  2. Tecmo Super Bowl by Unholy_Kingfish · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can anyone say Ivy Joe Hunter.....?

    The most injured player ever.

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    Fear Is the Only God
    1. Re:Tecmo Super Bowl by WaKall · · Score: 2, Funny

      Also ridiculous in that game:

      QB Eagles (aka Randall Cunningham). Pick a pass play, QB sneak/draw and run it for 80 yards.

      Jerry Rice - he would catch ANYTHING you threw at him. Anything.

      Christian Okoye - the running back that couldn't be tackled. Defensive players bounced off of him.

      Barry Sanders - a close second at the RB position to Bo Jackson. Barry had some speed in that game.

  3. Shaquille O'Neal by alan_dershowitz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will always be remembered by me, not for whatever crap he did on the basketball court, of which I have no idea. I will always remember him for starring in one of the world's shittiest games, SHAQ-FU (and to a lesser extent, the movie KAZAM.)

  4. Re:old news by alan_dershowitz · · Score: 2, Funny

    To this day I am not precisely sure what Dr. J. looks like in real life. My only recollection of his face was about 5 pixels high. He was the brown one, and Larry was the pink and green one.