The Top 25 NES Sports Games

These twenty-five games confirm that, for all that the Nintendo Entertainment System did right, it did sports games just as spectacularly well as it did everything else.

Introduction

I could say that my qualification for making a list like this one is that I’ve reviewed video games professionally, which is true; or that I’ve read an unhealthy number of Top 10 and Top 20 lists pertaining exclusively to Nintendo Entertainment System sports games, which is also true; but the reality is just that I know these games well—havi…