Top 10 Sports Games of All-Time
6) Greatest Heavyweights
Greatest Heavyweights for SEGA Genesis is, in my opinion, the best boxing game ever made. Everything about this game was great; from the graphics, to the gameplay mechanics, to the cheesy taunts and dialogue. The gameplay was really solid and your boxers' stats and physical size would actually affect how you had to approach a match. Each boxer had separate health meters for their head and their body. As you took damage to one of these body parts, the icon for it would slowly start to deplete and your energy meter would begin to fill with gray, thus giving you lower overall energy. If your energy meter was ever completely empty, you went down. If one of your health meters reached the bottom, it began to blink and you could no longer regain any energy whatsoever. At that point, it would only be a matter of time until your bell was rung.
Long grueling fights were pretty common in this game. There was a few cheap strategies that you could abuse to give you an upper hand like using the tallest boxer and then punching once to your opponent's gut and once to his head, alternating down-up punches over and over so he couldn't get close.
There was also a pretty in-depth career mode where you had to improve your boxer using various training methods between matches and fight your way up through the ranks to become the champion. As the name of the game implies, Greatest Heavyweights also included some of the greatest boxers of all time such as Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and Larry Holmes to name just a few.
I wonder if Jack Dempsey ever really said, 'I'm gonna crush your skull,' during a match.
No SEGA NFL 2K5 or NBA JAM?