ALL Sega Genesis Football Games Ranked (Retro Sunday)

[@SteveBrandon]

You didn't mention the funniest aspect of John Madden Football '92, the ambulance bumping any player in its way off the screen. In subsequent Madden Genesis games, the players moved out of the way when the ambulance showed up.

[@RetroSunday]

lol thanks for the info. I swear I had a vague memory of this but thought it was the ambulance in Road Rash I was thinking about. Thanks for watching and commenting! :D

[@timburr4453]

Madden 1995 was spectacular. I got a lot of miles out of it man did we have CHOICES back then

[@metrorican]

I didn't start playing football video games until I got a Genesis for Christmas '91. Joe Montana Football was my first football game, and I absolutely loved it. My cousin got the sequel, and I ended up really enjoying the play-by-play commentary. Since then, my overall favorite became the first Tecmo Super Bowl on Genesis. I have a lot of fun randomly selecting 1 team from each conference, and then trying to get both of them to the Super Bowl.

[@79PrymeTyme]

I used to play Joe Montana football every day after school back in the day.

[@ryanoneill9710]

I’m from the uk and loves that games I played it endlessly

[@EllinoItalos]

Tecmo Bowl was just fun. Graphics weren't the best but it was fun to play, and in the end that's what games are for.

[@osteensashi1787]

I feel like EA perfected that engine with those last 2 college games, College Football USA 96-97 are pretty damn great football games for the Genesis, it's a shame they couldn't give us a few more Madden games, Madden 99, 2000, 2001 on the Genesis with that engine

[@josephbradshaw6985]

Fav Madden was '92, because of the Ambulance running dudes over.

[@Deewax534]

I love retro sports games Madden 93 is my favorite football game on the Genesis

[@jackoff1826]

It's the Tecmo Super Bowls for me.

[@SNARC15]

The first Genesis Madden (1990) came out before the first NHL game was released (1991.) So there was no way that Madden was created by the same engine as NHL.

[@PhantasyStarved]

Glad to see someone else appreciating Super High Impact. I still have my original copy from the nineties and break it out from time to time, it's simple stupid fun.

[@RetroSunday]

Super High Impact was a good time, would be nice to play an original arcade cabinet. Thanks for watching and commenting! :D

[@javi__...]

I believe the joe montana football became nfl 95. Then it became deion sanders prime time football. Then it became nfl 97 and nfl 98.

[@keithwheeler1885]

it did

[@GisherJohn24]

My favorite is still the original Tecmo Bowl. There is something off about 2 and 3. I think it's probably the graphics. I think the speed bothered me. I appreciated the deep stat tracking on the new ones though. Great video btw. Crazy to say, but I missed the music during gameplay of Tecmo Bowl in 3. It was part of it's awesomeness. I love the music in 1 that plays during on the field! And the cute little clips of tunes after a first down. For Madden, I gotta go with 97. 98 for me was just a roster update. Loved the first Joe Montana.

[@RetroSunday]

Thanks for watching and commenting! :D

[@Ozzie314]

I really enjoyed the BlueSky games. I liked 94 the most. I was able to catch the ball with Derrick Thomas in a pitch off. It was funny. The college ones were fun too. The tecmo series were my favorite though. I liked the snes ones more for some reason. I was only able to find Super Bowl 2 on the genesis but had the other two on the snes.

[@RetroSunday]

BlueSky did some solid work in the Genesis days for sure. I'll have to try Tecmo series on SNES for comparison, also took me a while to find all 3 on the Genesis when collecting for some reason. Thanks for watching and commenting! :D

[@Ozzie314]

@@RetroSunday yeah, it’s weird. The genesis tsb games felt different somehow. Maybe that was my teenage brain thinking wonky I still bring up nfl94 now and again on the genesis mini I still play the latest tsb game with latest rosters too. Great games

[@tonystout1545]

The Blue Sky games rank above every Madden and Bill Walsh game on the Genesis. This reviewer is clueless.

[@Jebbreh]

I love your style. Quick, to the point and get multiple games in. Man, when Joe Montana Sports Talk Football came out. It was amazing to hear the announcer while running plays. Even if it was short. Lol.

[@RetroSunday]

Thanks I appreciate it, working on some more of these and a huge Genesis Easter Egg video currently so stay tuned. Ouuu those sweet sweet 16-bit voice clips! :D

[@reggierage87]

Tecmo Super Bowl on the Nes has always been my favorite football game ever. Everyone knows how "OP" Bo Jackson is on that game.

[@shawnpdavis9819]

Amd emmitt Smith and Barry was beast on tecmo bowl

[@bigzizzo]

NFL 94 and Madden 93, 95 and 96 were the best Football games on the Genesis.

[@bukko]

I had Madden 96. It was really good. I also had Mutant League Football, and while I love that it's unique and awesome, Madden 96 was a better, deeper game.

[@kefkarothsephka7708]

to each their own tsb series in genesis were the goats

[@ScottWozniak]

Stopped watching less than a minute in when Joe Montana II was ranked next to dead last. 👎🏻

[@afridgetoofar1818]

3:25 NFL FOOTBALL ‘94 was my favorite

[@Andrea-sl4dl]

The original Joe Montana football was the best on sega genesis

[@retrovariedades8302]

1990! i dont know how they lost the north making those videogames, Joe MOntana was so funny

[@jerryjanik480]

I loved the Bill Walsh college football and that was the first college football game I ever played but I remember playing Deion Sanders prime time

[@goldendragon4553]

Now that's classic football. Great list. Wondering if anyone remembers Walter Payton Football for sega genesis.

[@johnmadison3472]

I think that game was on Sega Master System, not Genesis. It came out around the same time NES Tecmo Bowl did.

[@keepingwatch64]

A little trip down memory lane. Tecmo bowl and Tecmo Super bowl paved the way for my love playing formal videogames to this day. Maddens of that era were decent options as well. I still play retro football games specifically the NFL 2k series. I don't miss those days fix I'm still in them! Thanks for the video.

[@VicariouslyRetro]

College Football's National Championship and Madden '94 were always my go-to's as a kid. I picked up Tecmo Super Bowl 1 about 5 years ago and its amazing, a nice upgrade of the NES version. I own Mutant League Football but I still haven't given it much of a chance. I'll play it next time I get a chance.

[@tyy_9123]

Hands down, mutant league was my favorite and it’s the one I go back to and play the most these days. Smooth controls along with creative audibles and deaths that make this game an absolute blast!

[@josephbradshaw6985]

Tecmo Super Bowl is probably my favorite football game of that era. I could never get into the Maddens, but I do like Madden 92 because the ambulance runs your guys over.

[@TimBitten]

I’m so glad we agree: Mutant League Football was the GOAT!! It remains my favorite overall game to play VS another player.

[@raddastronaut]

NFL football 94. I could return the kick off every time with Mel Grey without fail. Flea flicker without fail every time for the TD in ESPN. Loved that. 😂

[@mr.caples9707]

Loved Joe Montana Football

[@broncosbreaks]

Tecmo Super Bowl 3 is easily the best game on the system. I follow football religiously, and don’t care for any other sport. I saved up paper route money to buy this from a friend. Played millions of hours of it

[@smokes21502]

game was epic. always had 2-3 people stay on weekends to play

[@davidsutherland5821]

I had that nfl football 94 starring Joe Montana on sega when I was a kid an it was my fav football game of that time

[@bigzizzo]

Mine too. Great game

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

I really wish we got more description about each game, I mean, they were ranked but, we didn't really learn much about why they were ranked in each spot, or what made each game good/bad. It put me to sleep watching this at least though! But just some constructive Criticism. Yes it'd take longer but, if you played each game, than maybe tell us how the mechanics and gameplay felt, how passing was, how running was, tackling, all the in game features like if it had playoffs full season and create a player and trading, etc. Knowing just the name and publisher doesn't really help us learn anything about the actual game! Personally my favorite on Genesis is Madden 97!

[@ajk]

I can agree, also feel there's no flow here, no intro even and all the commentary sounds the same. Very monotone commentary too. Wanted to like this as a old Genesis player who had some of these games, but I can't.

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

@@ajk Right exactly, and it's not meant to be rude to the channel here. But, it makes you wonder why they're even making content if they arent putting any effort, heart, soul, or emotion into it? It's like an actor or musician who just is doing it all for the money. So they don't really care about the end product, and end up phoning it in.

[@bukko]

Agreed. Good concept and length of the video covering each one, but not much meat behind each game as to what stands out. Mostly I got the vibe that they listed the unique arcade style games higher because they stood out or were more fun to play. What could have been done was highlighting the unique games and ranking each, and showing the same games/engine games (EA / SEGA / TECMO) in another section and ranking them differently. Users top 5 of all choices in the final or something subjective. IMO Madden 96 was the one I played the most, and it was a great game, although I love that Mutant League Football exists more (today). That said OP, thank you for pointing me to Super High Impact. I missed that one and it looks awesome!

[@christopherdunlap7028]

My go to's were Joe Montana 94 and Tecmo Super Bowl III. I didn't enjoy the Maddens until the 2000's. After the NFL 2K series on Dreamcast all but died out.

[@freshmoney6597]

💯

[@stuparker01915]

LOVED QB Club 96. Hard as hell though

[@NostalgikOne]

Tecmo Super Bowl for NES was my fav football game of all time, played that game and season after season for years. For the Sega, College Football National Championship II was definitely my favorite…I never owned it, but rented it more weekends than I can possibly remember!

[@RonManGaming]

Great video! I'll add those top 5 to my list of games to track down.

[@RetroSunday]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed. Wouldn't be a bad choice tracking down any of the top 5 if ya don't have em and especially if ya haven't played them (if the price is right). Will be working on an "ALL Genesis Shooters Ranked" video soon, stay tuned! :D

[@piemuggs]

Two Words: Bones Jackson Another Two Words: Kill Ref

[@fptrees937]

Having Bill Walsh '95 in the mid 20's is not defensible in any way. And there were way too many bad games ranked higher than some of the Montana games. Bizarre list.

[@TadashiNazuka]

Your rankings are way off base, but at least you're talking about retro sports games.

[@b206580]

Jerry glanville football over bill walsh college football?ur nuts

[@Rockhead84]

It's criminal that Sports Talk Football II and III are so low on this list; you have to factor in how revolutionary they were being the first football games with (legendary) voice commentary. As far as Madden's go, Madden 95 is the best on Genesis.

[@channelsurf17]

I agree, not only was there speech, the play by play followed along with the action very well overall. Mutant League Football should've been on the bottom, with Sports Talk Football being more towards the top.

[@SoulforSale]

Cyberball has different rules than football but Powerball is a whole different game all together

[@davidg1612]

The order for the Sega series is NFL Football 94, NFL 95, Prime Time and NFL 98.

[@MrLeo778]

John Madden Football Championship Edition from EA was one of my favorites

[@stupidmonkey8057]

Tecmo super bowl (93) and madden 96 are my favorite from that era.

[@stepfonemccall9664]

Joe Montana 94 way to low. Also madden 96 is the beat because It introduced created players and injuries

[@christopherdunlap7028]

I agree. Montana 94 was my realistic option to Tecmo III.

[@1983jblack]

The top 3 for me are Techno Super Bowl Final, Madden NFL '94, and NFL Football '94 in no particular order. And also Mutant League Football

[@METALFACEDOOM441]

You can change to different camera angles in some of these games. JM 93 is one for example. You can't do a real review unless you really go through the games options.

[@itsaj7170]

at 6:59 for College Football 96, your voice audio is a little screwed up. but goes away when you get to madden 92. other than that a great ranking!

[@RetroSunday]

I figured it'd be audio overlap or something but no clue how my software managed to change that specific section of audio after export lol. Thanks for the comment, thumbnail creepy enough this time around?

[@123mightywarrior]

@@RetroSunday You sounded like RoboCop! 😂

[@felixfranzen7318]

A lot of people seems to rate Bill Walsh 95 as the single best football on the Genny. Surprised you didn't like it better.

[@apap1586]

I thought Genesis was ok.. I got a Super NES first and it just felt like a step back. I'm from that generation where that was a real rivalry. My first ever system was coleco vision in 82.

[@zusk8556]

Originally Genesis was going up against NES, so SNES had better hardware in certain areas and a time advantage. Genesis used to be superior to SNES for shmups, until all the fastrom hacks and stuff were released and now the SNES shmup library doesn't have all that slowdown and it gets to shine. I like both, I'm newer to the SNES library and I'm seeing pretty even pros and cons with the Genesis library

[@NoSpamForYou]

@@zusk8556 SNES got a bad reputation because the publishers didn't want to spend a $1 or 2 more on fastROM. Nintendo's fault since they controlled the manufacturing of all carts, they should have forced more fastROM games to ensure quality. So much for the Nintendo seal of Quality.

[@TripAces]

NFL Football 94 and Quarterback Club and Pigskin Footbrawl were the holy trinity for me

[@vanealmorrow6024]

Tecmo Super Bowl and Madden 92 are my 2 favorites

[@upchurch231]

Mutant League football is so much fun too

[@upchurch231]

Tecmo super bowl 3 was the muhfuggin sheet. Me and my brother spent all of 1995 I think it was it or maybe it was 1994 one of those years we spent the whole year playing that game it was basically the same thing as number two but something was like upgraded about it I can't remember what it was but I think it was the last installment for God however long it was until they came out with the modern techno bowl.

[@kefkarothsephka7708]

tsb3 came out in aug and oct 95 for sega and snes

[@upchurch231]

@@kefkarothsephka7708 dam so late 95....... ok yea thats right cause i was in 6th grade so ok yea. We would do seasons. He be the bills id be 49ers

[@stevewilliams1176]

Madden '93 was the cream of the crop on the Genesis. So much so that Madden 25 included it. It's waaaay too low on your list.

[@frankdascoli709]

Agreed, but Madden 93 Championship Edition with all the old teams was even better

[@stevewilliams1176]

@@frankdascoli709 I was going to mention that one but wasn't sure how familiar people were with it as it was a Blockbuster video exclusive. My group of buddies at that time had an "in" at a local Blockbuster so we had a copy for months, lol. It had all the Super Bowl winners and losers as well as about a dozen teams that were considered "great" that fell short of appearing in a Super Bowl. My team was the '91 Redskins. All my buddies always chose to play in the snow without realizing it made the '91 Skins even better...I won a lot, lol.

[@zusk8556]

I prefer the first two games overall, but Madden NFL '97 is what I usually end up putting on when I'm in the mood. Even just for a screensaver in the background, it's a nice-looking game with a good attract mode. It's more of a sim than an arcade game like the first two though.

[@jbone61927]

Madden 92 and 95 were my favorites Me and my brother loved Deion prime time football too

[@todds.6028]

If a football video game doesn't even have the OPTION of horizontal game play....NOT INTERESTED. I don't understand why so many frickin games are vertical only.

[@COMMONsenseAdvocate86]

Dude.... So yeah, if you put the single best Genesis football game(well, along with mutant league), as the 34th best football game on the system; no longer possible for me to trust your judgment bud. Joe Montana STF 2 is a goddamn classic. I was sincerely surprised that it wasn't one of the top 3.

[@roderickstockdale1678]

And he named the Prime Time and Tecmo Bowl games out of order. He only mentioned the series as Tecmo Super Bowl when it in fact started as Tecmo Bowl.

[@death5talker45]

Madden Championship Edition (93)

[@CasperEgas]

My favourite football game on Mega Drive is probably International Superstar Soccer or otherwise one of the later FIFA games.

[@retrovariedades8302]

ISS ? no doubt

[@easportssucks4347]

0/10

[@SamuraiSam]

I'm kind of stunned to see Pro Quarterback that high. Granted I haven't played it on Genesis but the SNES version is one of the worst sports games I've ever played!

[@caseyhayes4590]

I always preferred the Sega football games over EA. It sucked they didn't have any good Sega football on Saturn, even then I liked Sony's PS1 32bit football better than Madden on PS1/Saturn. 2K for Dreamcast was a gigantic quantum leap forward. It's not like I hated EA, I played every single version of EA hockey on Genesis and I played a ton of games EA ported from PC.

[@Primetime210237]

Temco Super Bowl Series & Joe Montana Football (the first one) favorite Sega football game .

[@jasonsimmons671]

Great nostalgic times ❤🔥

[@peterwhite2182]

I killed the qb club challenge. Everyone I played with had trouble in long throw and I killed that event.

[@loveandrockets4life]

the fact that you put Pro Quarterback so high tells me all I need to know. That game is abysmal. The players move at like one frame per second and calling collision detection "poor" is an insult to the word. There is nothing "above average" about this game.

[@SoulforSale]

very shallow play book and no game options.

[@ApostleRashad]

My question is how old are you? You talking about these games to give it a review?

[@Courtdog2k3]

I'm certain this list is highly inaccurate. Joe Montana's football games were highly revolutionary at the time while other games that never amounted to anything are rated higher. Bill Walsh at 24? Jerry Glansville at 23? That's a top ten all time football game imo. If you only playing these games by yourself then you're missing out on what made them special. Madden 92,93,95,98 and Madden 64 has the best running gameplay of any football ever imo, even better then NFL 2k5 but most Madden heads only played the PlayStation version. I love this video tho, played everyone of these games with a friend so this takes me back

[@jeffbates2902]

I loved da 1st college football

[@jeffdoherty237]

I really thought that the person on the thumbnail was Pat Sajak from the wheel of Fortune.

[@kaityson7173]

Madden 93 followed by Madden 96 that was the first game to do the combine

[@GailBooth-q9p]

Joe montana 94 so low

[@game382]

13:26 it’s still madden nfl that never changed

[@iggy2912]

This is cool!!!

[@RetroSunday]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks! :)

[@dontearichardson9976]

Bill Walsh college 🏈 '95! Still in my top 2.

[@danabenjamin3300]

We used to call it lets get a game of madden" lol

[@robbiedoblin]

The footage captured I'd tuff to watch. There had to be better plays in each game that could've been used

[@DavidBarton777]

I liked the Troy Aikman game I remember playing that one and throwing bombs 💣

[@gamernorcal]

the first Joe Montana football was great. better than madden . then they decided to screw up the following year.

[@stepfonemccall9664]

You speaking my language. I would only pick madden 96 over it because injuries and the way tou had to create a player on madden was dope.

[@johnmadison3472]

I thought Madden 93 Championship Edition was cool because it had the classic SB teams from the past. Personally, I didn't care for the later Madden games on the Genesis. The animations were too choppy imho.

[@djdicrenzo3908]

What about the special edition madden only released to blockbuster

[@blaqdiemenz]

was nfl blitz on Sega.. cause that was my favorite

[@upchurch231]

That's funny it's like the top football games but then like two of the top games ain't even football.

[@MillerTheOfficialGaming]

Nice video 📹

[@brandondeakins564]

Obviously not genesis, but espn 2k5 is the best football game ever made hands down

[@jackoff1826]

2K1 and Tecmo Super Bowl right at the top too

[@peterwhite2182]

Best part of mike dikta was the fgs

[@chapingaryjr]

Cyberball was my game

[@goldendragon4553]

My mistake sega master system

[@zusk8556]

I have a hard time getting it to run on real hardware, so I end up playing American Pro Football instead usually. That one and Reggie Jackson Baseball were the best celebrity-endorsed sports games for SMS

[@WEHRWULF8814]

Dick Butkus should have had a game

[@jaahnnn]

Anything past like 96 should be disregarded because playstation and sega saturn were out by then

[@AyeThatsHandsomePete]

I had madden 97. Im still convinced to this day the cpu cheated.

[@jamesvaughn4126]

My was prime time and NFL 95

[@game382]

Mike Ditka power football was the worse I had this game cuz it was cheaper

[@devinjordan6008]

Not that was your top pick 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@unitedcrypto]

i tried my best to get through and finish the video but way too many dayum ads smh u took a nice video and fukked it being greedy

[@john94949]

Sounds like you're passively badgering me with questions the way your voice climbs in pitch as you end your sentences. Yada, yada, yada? Yada, yada? Yada, yada, yada, yada? Yada? Other than that, good vid

[@brianellinger6622]

sht,... datz just whats on yawlz news,...