The Last NFL GameDay

NFL GameDay 2005 was the last NFL GameDay title, and surprisingly, it only released for the PlayStation 1 and not the PS2. It's a hidden gem, and a throwback to the late '90s when Sony's GameDay was the best NFL game you could buy.
#retrospective #SOFTDRINKTV #game #review #sdtv

[@jinkazuya22]

This a throwback frfr. I remember one time i was playing against my cousin in the rain on NFL gameday and lightning struck when i got tackled and my person fumbled smh 😂😂

[@noneoftheabove101]

Respect for the consistency and the quality. Best gaming channel under 200K subs!

[@SOFTDRINKTV]

I really appreciate that!

[@dfoster004]

💪🏿 as the kids would say….fax😂

[@SpecterRust11]

🔥🔥

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@SOFTDRINKTVsuch a shame that not even MADDEN NFL from 13 to 23 can match NFL GAMEDAY 2005 PS1 and all PS1 NFL games. Such a shame.

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@SpecterRust11as everyone was saying. LOL.😂

[@Bertha339]

I want you to do the last NASCAR game on PS1 and PS2

[@sublime90]

pours one out for 989 studios

[@joseph23ification]

989 also made college football video game series called NCAA GameBreaker with 2004 being the last college football video game to compete with the more popular EA NCAA Football series it is worth checking out or making a retrospective on this game.

[@bbryant9455]

Hell yeah 💯 good times good times. They also made the NCAA final four series to compete with the ea march madness games. Final four was actually not bad imo

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@bbryant9455NCAA Final Four PS1 still better than all EA SPORTS games from 2020 to 2023.

[@bonvct]

Miss variety in NFL games

[@robertriojas2639]

For real! We had game day madden and nfl 2K games, even blitz and it was great! Just like nba 2K and nba live and Kobe’s game and other kinda basketball games in the early years

[@tavius88]

Man I remember renting NFL Gameday from Blockbuster on my PlayStation 😢 good times

[@SpecterRust11]

Yup!

[@purwantiallan5089]

Now i am about to buy it later.

[@armenican2545]

I miss blockbuster 😭

[@edwardjr9232]

Indeed😢🫡💯

[@vengeance1701]

NFL GameDay was amazing. The intros were amazingly hype. I loved them.

[@purwantiallan5089]

Agreed. Shame that intros in NFL 23 put players into eternal slumber way before the action.

[@Thee_It]

Ik this isn't relevant but the madden trailer looks soo ass I'm so glad I haven't wasted my money with madden in over 4 years

[@iiTsFaded_]

My aunt had nfl gameday 98 on the ps1 and it was one of my favorite nfl games

[@bmoreboy8865]

Bro you're in your bag with these drops. This the one I was waiting for

[@purwantiallan5089]

Agree.

[@1manarmy_]

Man you unlocked some memories with this one! Keep the videos coming!!

[@purwantiallan5089]

No doubt.

[@JordanJMyers]

Gameday 99. Juke,juke,juke pull hammy touchdown lol

[@Joshua-uw7wm]

Honestly the nflpa has all the ability to bring an end to Madden having the only contract because it limits their individual ability to make money. As if there was multiple games to be a multiple NFL stars getting paid to be a part of each game

[@purwantiallan5089]

NFL Gameday 2005 miles above even FIFA 23.

[@SoftBank47]

The NFLPA is the most spineless, servile players’ union in professional sports today.

[@FidoArtz]

Road to Sunday would of been competition to blitz the league, because not only would be arcadey but also have rpg elements that would keep the game fresh. if the game also had a season mode or even a non-story based franchise mode, it would have also blew blitz the league out of the water as a rpg simcade game with a blitz the league style storyline. sadly that never happened and it would still be cool to have something like that even indie. because the way i see it now. triple A sports games have been baring the sanitized image of major sport leagues of our favorite sports and its slowly killing the sports games landscape. thats why nowadays people are moving towards indie titles.

[@JustinTyme116]

I was getting ready to eat & I saw this video on my notifications. I had never even heard of Road To Sunday. The story for the game sounds insane!

[@mikewozawski1634]

I still have my psone "slim" lol love that bad boy got it for my birthday at a roller rink. Life was good

[@bobigghhb3]

989 Studios was giving EA Sports a hard time for a minute back in the day

[@TheVirtualSportsNetwork]

I was unaware this one existed. Never heard of Road to Sunday either. It's a shame Sony didn't keep the football games coming, even without the NFL rights.

[@purwantiallan5089]

NFL 23 < NFL GAMEDAY 1995 to 2005.

[@Amp5150]

my friends and I played SO MUCH gameday 98 on playstation. man those were good times.

[@Jhoffa22_]

Gameday 95 was classic, I remember on BIG hits in the rain a lightning strike would happen at the exact moment... *Classic Game* .. 💯

[@Thederanged1]

I think the reason Road to Sunday was canceled was because Blitz The League came out before the could finish it.

[@JAKEATO]

Looking some player tackles seen more animation accurate than the magic animations of the recent maddens. Pardon my English.

[@bjnt92281]

Gameday was the main reason I wanted a PS1 over an N64 back in the late nineties.

[@MoveInSilence23]

989 sports was awesome

[@deondraemcknight232]

I miss the days of having options when it came to sports games

[@jaheimmoultrie7584]

same.

[@Thomas-z4o6m]

Same

[@jeffsan4996]

2:14 in today's society, that would be impossible because social media would of found out about the PS4 release 😂

[@Brazil144hopeful]

I remember running the ball then watching my man limp down the field because they catch a cramp in the middle of the play 🤣

[@CloudyWithAChanceOf5thPlace]

NFL GameDay 2001 was my first football game I owned as a kid... I was horrible, it was hard, I'd give up every time... Till I used the Ravens once and ran HB Sweeps with Jamal Lewis all game long with major success and had a blast! RIP GameDay, you'll be forever implanted in my childhood memories

[@chilistyles5108]

It was incredibly hard. Made me rage

[@MartySupreme]

NFL Gameday and NBA Shootout 2004 holds a special place in my heart to this day still 😩

[@purwantiallan5089]

Me too, despite NBA SHOOTOUT 2004 still bizarrely reviewed by Metacritic.

[@allanbejarano9075]

you ever thought about doing racing games, the competition was quite fierced on the ps2

[@filminspector6775]

10:48 all ps3 systems play ps1 games. Granted not all of them work properly, but more often than not, they work fine. Sorry just wanted to state that for the record

[@mjf2891]

Loving the consistent output of videos. Appreciate your work.

[@maple.leaves.]

Love your videos and I think you're doing important work chronicling old sports games, which as you've noted in the past are understudied from a historical lens. Would like to see and hear more raw footage of the games (e.g. showing off the how the hushing of the crowd by home/away QBs sounds) -- I think it'd help illustrate what you're seeing when you study these games!

[@FG_Plays16]

You can still play it on PS2 and PS3 through backwards compatibility

[@boodeesparx1192]

or emulate it on ur fone

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Imagine if NFL Gameday 2005 had released for PS2, it probably wouldn't be that much different from 2004 other than just being a roster update, one could dream that a prototype PS2 build of Gameday 2005 is out there somewhere. (1:11, 1:51, 3:21, 8:33, 9:44)

[@dylanandrich1949]

When he says 2005 is similar to previous titles... Its as similar as 99 gameplay. It never changed in 6 years for those that hate madden for never changing.

[@golem6494]

I really hope that Sony get the rights to USFL or XFL or just make a football video games , I mean looks at there MLB the show is doing a great job and making them so money

[@samuelpeterson5472]

Wow classic! Keep up the content! Would you do any of the march madness games?

[@jduke93]

I remember getting game day 2004 with LT on the cover and I loved that game

[@benithelogolover]

Never knew this existed. I thought GameDay 2004 was the last NFL GameDay title.

[@MJForever1999]

I belive theres a demo iso of road to sunday somewhere online.

[@GridironMasters]

I streamed a whole season of franchise mode. Ill definitely be going back to it sometime.

[@axton5762]

GameDay was fun back in the day. When you just wanted to take a break from Madden try something different. I remember the juke move was so OP in this game.

[@bmoreboy8865]

OMG it was so op. Especially when using Jerome Bettis

[@Bigfitz2]

I used to love gameday and nba shootout

[@MrEOM41]

I remember Gameday being a big deal for 3 yrs in the late 90s … good times 🏈

[@purwantiallan5089]

For me since 1997.

[@dmadgrass]

I miss the diversity in sports games. Not just EA back then

[@SueloTheChild]

I have nfl game day 97 and 98 and 99 and 2000 and 2001 on the ps1.

[@dariusbaja21]

Road to Sunday: Blitz meets Vendetta

[@AlBeQuirky]

GameDay '98 and '99 were my favorite of the Franchise. First officially licensed NFL games I played. Never played Madden until 6th gen era. There are a lot of great memories playing a lot of these older NFL Franchises. GameDay, NFL QB CLUB, Blitz, 2K, and Madden, one of the last NFL Franchises I tried out, along with Fever, were so much fun playing and many enjoyable memories. Man, competition back then was a lifetime ago. Certainly doesn't feel like it was in this lifetime. Never did play GameDay 2005. Not sure I've ever seen a copy and it was several years after that I realized it was developed and released only for the OG Playstation. Would be awesome to have this competition again, but have it where gameplay matter and was enjoyable, not broken, was deep in game modes and wasn't stuck like today's microtransactions and gambling like implements. All Pro Football 2K8 is currently my focus on football games and gaming in general

[@simiwade7773]

I miss nfl gameday i had 2000 it was fun i didnt get gameday 4 ps2 tbh i missed it

[@purwantiallan5089]

NFL GAMEDAY 2005 PS1 still far better than even NFL 23. LOL.

[@ThaMizphit74]

Thanks for having the original aspect ratio in this one.

[@tonydominic7810]

Rented this from blockbuster growing up 😭 such a terrible game ... Keep it up my guy 🙏🙏💪💪

[@jmarie1202]

Keep up the amazing work my brother 👂🏿🙏🏿💯🧠💖💕🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Da_Humble_Life]

Was 1 of my favorite games cant lie

[@mike91mdk45]

Like you said, pretty crazy to see eli manning in ps1 graphics lol. I never had the gameday games as a kid, but picked up both '99 and ncaa gamebreaker '01 a few yrs ago. Fun titles.

[@MarqueePCGaming]

Nice vid bro!

[@football1712]

The PS2 were also good. I have both 04 gameday and 05 gameday for PS1. They are underrated and awesome. Just wished they continued it. Underrated studio. RIP 989 sports

[@FLIP205]

Man U the Goat bringing back all my Childhood memories 😢

[@evanpreston3432]

all ps3 consoles have support for ps1 disc emulation, your welcome. 🙂

[@mattdavis9601]

To add on to this; PSPs had a very good built-in PS1 emulator. That's how I played it back in the day.

[@ItzBlownHotDog]

Can y do an video on the madden 24 beta

[@KingGamezz87]

Loved this brotha! My first GameDay and football game overall was GameDay 98. I still have it, these were better times my friend.

[@NipseyEternal99]

I'm a playstation fan since PS1 and i never liked the 989 studios games

[@CharmCityGamer]

I got all hyped to look for Road To Sunday, and then you mentioned it was cancelled. High, then low in seconds.

[@KidTonyGaming]

I'm about to make y'all feel old and young at the same time. In 2005 you could by a brand new GBA game, a new DS game, a new GC game, a new PS1 game, a new PS2 game, a new Xbox game, you buy a Xbox 360 and preorder the PS3 what a time

[@BuffaloBeatle]

My Guy Softdrink… WAVES just released DeVerb for broadcasting. I think you should invest.

[@patricknugent6159]

989 had some good college games

[@T-Swerve03]

Theory on development: Ps2s are backwards compatible so by only releasing the ps1 version of the game they still didn’t cut out potential sales while saving money

[@waltergill1226]

When the ps2 dropped, I remember NFL 2K3 took over being neck and neck with Madden. GameDay didn't stand a chance

[@patrickledonne5547]

I was a big GameDay fan. It blew away Madden until around year 2000. AI was much better and GameDay was more innovative with player movement and did a franchise mode with draft first. Where they failed was allowing the gameplay to go stale. Same plays and playbooks year after year. Same glitch passing plays and same glitched running plays making running inside difficult while averaging 10 per carry on sweeps. Once they ran out of innovations in other areas they were left with the exact same game and exact same lack of challenge year after year. Run the same plays as last year to destroy. No challenge. No hunting for glitch plays. The same ones worked year after year

[@codeezie]

Its just awesome that Derrick Brooks was on the cover. Fuckin legend.

[@ChiefCedricJohnson]

Psalms 136:25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

[@DannyP-dm1pw]

If anyone really wants to feel old. Jaromir Jagr is 51 still playing pro hockey overseas and he was in the original EA NHL Hockey on Sega Genesis that came out in 1991.

[@neko_samurai]

Damn, Road to Sunday could’ve been dope. Def Jam Fight for New York, but football.

[@texastwostepgaming]

I beat my step dads 1st sergeant in 1998 on Gameday as a 10 year old... Never seen a man as proud of me as that moment

[@dfoster004]

My guy💪🏿

[@anthonyjefferson3941]

NFL GameDay 99 for the original PlaySation you get to play the past Superbowl games

[@WauwautosaTufGuy]

I wish we got a football game the quality of MLB the show

[@martinalther6661]

NFL Gameday 98 still holds up very well IMO. I would love to see it modded with modern rosters and teams.

[@brandonone239]

GameDay 98 was my first game on ps1..To be 9 years old again😢

[@dannynhl9441]

Seeing Jaromir Jagr in NHL 1991 on Sega Genesis makes me feel old since he still playing hockey today

[@skapenguin3775]

This may seem like a weird question but does anyone know how to save modified rosters for exhibition play in this game? I just got nfl gameday 2005 and I modified the rosters for exhibition mode and I can't seem to get the rosters to save. I can save the roster in season and gm mode but it defaults the roster once i exit season or gm mode when i try to play exhibition mode.

[@mikesilva44]

i would really like you to review the last nba live game for the ps2 i think it was live 09 or NBA jam extreme for ps1 it was horrible

[@demetriusjohnson2240]

Game day 98 will always be my favorite memory of playing this game with my brothers cousins man we went hard on this game

[@ElGaby323]

I miss the commercials with the guy saying "989 sports". Good times.

[@Bertha339]

Can you do a review on the last MLB game for the PS one which was MLB 2005

[@jimmyjay689]

I was a gameday guy from 1996-2000..then switched to 2k

[@williamenright1129]

GameDay 03 was my favorite. It is still better than any Madden game I've played

[@KVZY713]

Yup I used to play NFL Gameday more than madden on the PS1.

[@alexgretzky2247]

GameDay was good for running the ball but passing was trash, especially deep passes

[@boodeesparx1192]

Didn't u do dis game already? Lol

[@SOFTDRINKTV]

No I made a video on 2004 for the PS2. This is 2005 for the PS1

[@bmoreboy8865]

Are you still going to do the NBA shootout series? I'd love to see you breakdown the history and talk about how flooded the NBA gaming scene was in 97-98.. I was a kid and had 4 basketball games that year 😁. It was a time where shootout was direct rivals with NBA LIVE... Great times

[@Brazil144hopeful]

That's why it didn't release because of the gambling story line on road to Sunday

[@Zero-is-infinite]

madden 05 also came out on the psx, it didnt have hit stick BUT helmets did come off. had to be tough to go against that.

[@jordanworley6599]

Gameday really was better than Madden on PS1! I loved Gameday 99 and Gameday 2000

[@spacefunk77]

They never fixed the generic coach being on the field glitch??

[@mvargojr]

Why the kingpin kinda look like Lamar Jackson now... lmmfao

[@Fender178]

Heh being able to play Ben Roethlisberger on the PS1 is very dope.

[@JD-kj4be]

Grew up with tecmo bowl, John Madden football, Joe Montana football the real ogs