Most of us have fond memories of the sports games of a simpler time: making little Wayne's head bleed in NHLPA Hockey '93, proving Bo knows almost everything in Tecmo Super Bowl and the hit-n-run ambulance in Madden '92. With so many awesome experiences you'd think someone would bring back sports games to their glory on XBLA. Well, according to a listing on the ESRB website someone is.On Friday, the ESRB website added a listing for RBI Baseball by upstart developers Six Degrees Games. While the new development team does not list the game on their website, their job listing section notes the team is "inventing a new generation of vibrant, mass-market gaming applications for the internet," which lends weight to the game being an Arcade release.
While we're on the subject, here's a free tip to EA. Take the classic Madden and NHL source codes, add new teams and updated rosters, sprinkle in some online play, watch XBLA monies pour in.
Your classic sports game history lesson available after the jump.
(NSFW for language) Makin' little Wayne's head bleed in NHLPA '93
Bo Knows Running in Tecmo Super Bowl
Emergency Room needs more customers in Madden '92
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-25-2008 @ 4:06PM
LilTmac2003 said...
Ha, that's pretty cool.
I just wish Xbox LIVE Arcade games go back to their original price of 400 points.
For good games, 800 points is ok, but nothing should be 1,200 or even 1,600.
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5-25-2008 @ 4:44PM
shawn said...
i agree nothing should even be that high for xbox arcade
5-25-2008 @ 4:18PM
Artin said...
So which NHLPA is the head bleeding in?
You said 93 in the post and 94 under the youtube video.
I looked for it a couple years ago and never got a definite answer. I figure someone here has to know.
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5-25-2008 @ 6:13PM
Xav de Matos said...
Well that was an error on my part but its because the scene in the movie is actually wrong.
There is fighting in NHLPA '93, which is the game they are playing, but they removed the fighting in NHL '94 which is the game they're talking about.
Head bleeding is in NHLPA Hockey '93 and NHL '94.
5-25-2008 @ 9:08PM
Matter said...
The bleeding was definatly in NHLPA 93, but only on the Sega version I believe.
I had the SNES version and this never ever happened in all my years playing the hell out of that game, I think it was because of Nintendo's squeeky clean image that they removed it. My buddy on the other hand had it on the genesis and this happened frequently.
I could be wrong though.
Matt
5-25-2008 @ 4:22PM
Noxat said...
I'd love to see some classics like NHL Hockey, as long as they keep that awesome Genesis-style synthesized music in tact! Oh and a 400ms price point.
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5-25-2008 @ 4:27PM
Graham said...
NHLPA Hockey '93 is one of my favorite games of all time.
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5-25-2008 @ 4:39PM
NukeAssault said...
I loved this game! And yeah an NHLPA game would rock!
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5-25-2008 @ 4:40PM
kp said...
that is pretty cool actually. but give me my Mutant League Football!! greatest football of all time!
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5-25-2008 @ 7:08PM
Grimm said...
Word to that man...they really should make a current gen version of that. Imagine 3d gore goodness of tackling dudes and cutting them in half and decapitating referees. Aahhh...those would be good times indeed.
5-25-2008 @ 7:14PM
Xav de Matos said...
In an interview with 1UP's Sports Anomaly podcast EA Sports' own Peter Moore said a Mutant League Football remake is likely never going to happen.
Sorry kids!
5-25-2008 @ 4:40PM
kp said...
that is pretty cool actually. but give me my Mutant League Football!! greatest football game of all time!
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5-25-2008 @ 6:24PM
Bryan T said...
Why don't we also add Mutant League Football to the list.
Man do I miss those old-school NHL games.
PS - Go wings!
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5-25-2008 @ 6:24PM
Vcize said...
Sweet, I played the hell out of this game way back when. Hopefully this has online play.
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5-25-2008 @ 7:09PM
marlowned said...
I love RBI baseball. I remember playing it on the NES way-back-when. You had to select your starting lineup without the player's names... just a blue screen with stats on it.
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5-25-2008 @ 7:35PM
adam said...
When sports games were actually good.Give me baseball stars 2 over any of them and then we are talking.
And tecmobowl
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5-25-2008 @ 10:01PM
Dirk Dorkelson said...
The sad thing is that RBI Baseball would instantly become the best baseball game on the 360.
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5-26-2008 @ 12:51PM
Tony said...
I kind of just wonder if they're "bringing this back" in any capacity or if it shares the name and nothing else. It's not like Tengen is making millions today.
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5-26-2008 @ 5:16PM
sam said...
Baseball Stars, please!
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