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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. Re:Here are the ones from my youth by exick · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl was probably the most insane video game athlete of all time.