I still somehow have a picture of a VW Golf mk.II in my head.I guess that is licenced baby ;).Cheers

That could be from Midtown Madness.

I have a few sports games in my collection of shareware, if it's of interest!

I'm holding out for a good Jai alai game.

Yep.You are spot on.Such a nice game.The licenced stuff does add to the overall atmosphere,but cements my fear that it my never get rereleased :/.Let’s hope the other entries of this franchise land here.Our wallets are ready GOG ;).Cheers

EDIT: Are you sure about MC:Los Angeles being on Steam,as i can only see MC II,and SteamDB confirms it ;).Cheers

I remember reading a post somewhere (I think it was twitter) that said that players of sport games tend to have the sport as their hobby rather than video games. In other words, the people who play sports games tend not to be video gamers.

I'd love for GOG to acquire all of the SNK games that weren't in the NeoGeo 25th Anniversary Bundle. Both SNK Arcade Classics releases would be quickly snapped up by me. :)

It has been brought up before and I still don't know why it is this way. Sports is, by far, GOGs weakest weakest genre for offerings.

There is no reason why GOG can't have Super Mega Baseball

Or go for the sequel coming up in 2018 with Super Mega Baseball 2:

Reveal trailer
gameplay reveal
Customization with dev

@dtgreene: I am not sure who said that, but that is wrong across the board. As a huge sports fan I am a gamer, as are most of the sports fans I know (and that is a lot).

Sports fans play fantasy sports, Madden, FIFA, NHL, MLB the Show, etc. My brother is a huge baseball fan (not a gamer, but he does have a few games he likes) and MLB: The Show is one of the few games he actually buys and plays. I think he has a PS3 just for MLB: The Show.

You can't always get out to play in real life, you can't always get the people needed to play a game. One-on-One for basketball works, but not for baseball or football. Just because you like one, doesn't mean people aren't interested in the other.

I actually don't know anybody who is not a sports fan that plays a sports game. Why would they? If you don't like the sport in real life and don't know the rules, why would you play a video game version?

Not really a baseball, hockey or football fan but I played the hell out of Hardball, Tecmo Bowl and NHL '94. Double Dribble, Blades of Steel and Atari Football were also good. Not a wrestling fan either but Tag Team Wrestling, Mania Challenge and The Main Event were really good.

MY MAN!

You could always try to find someone to play Blades of Steel with through MAMEHub. It doesn't have many users because word just hasn't gotten around but it's been in development for years. Never tried that game with MAMEHub, though, so your mileage may vary.

The old games, lots of people played.

Excitebike and Punch Out too, even if you knew nothing about Supercross or boxing, but who buys and plays modern sports sim games like FIFA, Madden, MLB The Show these days if they aren't fans?

Who else is going to drop $60 on a football game every year that also requires a $50 online play pass, go through career mode, create a character.

Who has knowledge of Cover 2 and 86 defenses? Play Action, West Coast, Run and Shoot and K-Gun offenses? The difference between a Nickel and Dime package. Do you like your line or linebackers more? Then are you playing a 3:4 or 4:3 among the seven up front? Are you playing man coverage or zone?

It's one of the reasons I really like Super Mega Baseball. The game is easy to pick up, play and have fun, but has a ton of depth and difficulty for fans of baseball. On easy modes you can just toss and swing and win, but on harder difficulties you need to pay attention to pitch selection, location, fatigue, how you pitched the batter last time, are your pitching patterns predictable and the Mojo meter.

Indeed, on the contrary, a lot of the people who play sports video games tend not to engage in the sport themselves. That's not to say they don't engage in any sports, but not THAT sport.

Personally, I've always found sports - especially team sports - to be a rather poor template for video games. FIFA and Pro Evo, for instance, seem to get more unplayable the more anal-retentively obsessive with detail and accuracy they get. Games like SWOS and International Soccer (the C64 game) were much better games simply by virtue of taking the game of football as a rough template and building a distinct style of gameplay around it as opposed to trying to replicate every nuance of the footwork and shoehorn real-life tactics in. Even so, I find that football translates very poorly to video gaming simply by virtue of the fact that a lot of the game revolves around the team dynamic, which is impossible to replicate when you're bouncing control from player to player, trying to coordinate with AI players who lack intuition or personal connection. Even if you happen to be playing with 22 entirely human players, each controlling one player, chances are you're still playing with 21 other "human" players that you really have no connection with. A lot of the game is about eye contact, visual communication and assessing the situation at the spur of the moment.

One-to-one sports like tennis tend to carry over much more effectively, and while tennis games replicate the strategic aspects of the sport quite well, it's dumbed down to the point where a lot of the technical aspects of the sport - in particular wrist control - tend to get lost. Also, I don't think tennis games have ever really got the art of positioning yourself on the court in anticipation of a shot quite right.