Retro Referee: Ranking the Retro Sports – NES
Sports video games are one of my favorite genres in the medium, so I thought it would be fun to look not necessarily at the individual games just yet... but rather the sports they represent. I'm going to rank my favorite five sports, based on the games that represent them. I'll cover each of the five consoles I'm currently focusing on: NES, SNES, Genesis, the original PlayStation, and the Nintendo 64. We'll start this series with the NES. 5. Volleyball This ranking is driven by one […]https://peteskerritt.com/2026/06/04/retro-referee-ranking-the-retro-sports-nes/
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I don't know who decided that the (horribly underappreciated) platforming series Klonoa needed a spin off game for the PS1 in 2002, when the PS2 came put in 2000, or who decided it should be a sports title, or who decided the sport should be beach volleyball, or who decided to make it really, really good, but whoever you are, individual or team, hats off to you.
24 years later, you have gotten someone who doesn't give a single crap about almost any sport addicted to your cartoony, adorable take on beach volleyball. I'm charmed, I'm invested, and I'm getting my ass handed to me because I'm out of practice and its been a while since I played. Great job making the game mechanics deep and the skill ceiling high. That's what I like in my games: cuteness with a challenge. Lmao
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