The Love of Sports put together a nice rundown of the best sports game made for the older Nintendo systems. The list is pretty good and some obvious thought was put into the ranking and overall decision making process.

Here’s their top 7:

1. Blades of Steel - Konami, 1988
2. Double Dribble - Konami, 1987
3. California Games - Epyx, 1989
4. Track and Field II - Konami, 1988
5. Mike Tyson’s Punch Out - NES, 1987
6. RBI Baseball - Tengen, 1988
7. Tecmo Super Bowl - Tecmo, 1991

My favorites on this list were California Games and Tecmo Super Bowl. In college, my roommate and I rocked the old school Nintendo and had many battles on California Games and Contra - two games which will never lose their appeal. Tecmo Super Bowl felt like the first legit football game - playing a whole season’s worth of games and tracking your stats - it still remains a classic. Too bad you can’t find a sports game these days without “EA” in the title. Not to mention, where’s Konami these days? Selling out to Yu-Gi-Oh… nice.

Here’s the full article: The Love of Sports.