I have 2 picks:
PES (yeah it was big in Latin America and Asia but never truly beat FIFA popularity worldwide except in the early 2000s), if I had to pick a specific version, is either PES 2010 or 2013, 2016 was also great.
FIFA street 1: Almost 2 decades later and still think it’s the best FIFA game ever, not even the street sequels were able to surpass it. FIFA 11 and 13 were good too but those aren’t underrated in any way.
Edit: wow y’all old lol
Mutant League Football
NFL Blitz 2000!
With a crap ton of random cheats enabled, of course. Really this game is the only good thing to come out of football or the NFL.
It’s so good it oughta be illegal!
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball for the SNES.
NFL Fever for the OG Xbox. I remember being able to unlock random teams that had better stats than the real NFL teams. It’s too bad the series died when EA got the exclusive rights to the NFL.
Wii Sports
I think I’ve never played so much of a mini game collection that’s meant to teach you controls. Maybe Solitaire comes close. The Tennis matches we had were legendary.
I know a few people that never bought any other games for their Wii.
People say Wii Sports is underrated? Everyone I know has played Wii Sports even all of my non-gamer friends.
Mario Hoops 3-on-3 took actual skill to be good enough just to beat the game and unlock the really cool square enix characters.
Probably the most precision required out of a stylus based game, but really fun mechanics and multiplayer.
Rally’s a sport, nobody mentioned DiRT Rally 2?
One of the best sims ever
That’s a racing game
Y’all remember Sega Soccer Slam for the Xbox? I played the fuck outta that one, I had pretty much everyone’s finishing kicks memorized
Forceball from SWTOR
Pong
1080 Snowboarding on Nintendo 64. I used to spend all my time on this game whilst everyone else was playing the tony hawk games.
Qwop
Exciting hour(aka Mat Mania) was awesome for the time.
Fast paced and difficult, until you work out their attacks.
Does Supergiant Games’ Pyre count?
Ha, I came here to post Pyre, and I love no two people have the same way to describe it.
My favorite is Darren’s “Wizard Basketball Plus Reading”.
I call it by two names, depending on how cheeky I’m feeling that day
Cheeky one is “hashtag-Basketball4Freedom”
Non-cheeky one is “one of three video game stories that made me legitimately cry, like straight up bawling – With a fantastical version of NBA Jam bolted on the side”
NES - Blades of Steel
Nhl would benefit from only losers get a penalty for fights
Maybe it’s underrated these days because I imagine almost no one would be playing it these days but back in the actual days of the NES, Blades of Steel was beloved, at least here in Canada.
That was just called Ice Hockey. That’s the one I played most on NES.
