http://bleacherreport.com/articles/486314-the-50-greatest-video-game-athletes-of-all-time-with-video Slide show from Bleacher Report with videos of each athlete performing. Here is the list. Number 1 should be pretty easy to guess. Spoiler 50. Shaquille O'Neal - NBA Jam 49. Larry Bird - NBA 2K3 48. Devin Hester - Madden 2008/2009 47. Brian Moorman - Madden 46. Sammy Sosa - Triple Play Baseball 2000 45. Shawn Kemp - NBA Jam 44. Tim Tebow - NCAA Football 2010 43. Tom Chambers - Lakers Versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs 42. Wayne Gretzy - Wayne Gretzy's 3D Hockey 41. Tom Brady - Madden 2009 40. Nolan Ryan - Nolan Ryan's Baseball 39. David Ortiz - MLB 06: The Show 38. Vince Young - NCAA Football 2006 37. Reggie Bush - Madden 2007 36. Dominik Hasek - NHL 2K4 35. Didier Drogba - 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa 34. Donovan McNabb - Madden 2006/NFL 2K5 33. Ichiro Suzuki - MLB 09: The Show 32. Brett Favre - NFL QB Club '99 31. LeBron James - NBA Live 08 30. Terrell Owens - NFL 2K5 29. Marshall Faulk - Madden 2003 28. Kobe Bryant - NBA 2K10 27. Pavel Bure - NHL '94/'95 26. Walter Payton - Tecmo Bowl 25. Reggie Bush - NCAA Football 2006 24. Shaquille O'Neal - NBA Live 2005 23. Allen Iverson - NBA 2K3 22. Barry Sanders - Madden 98 21. Adrian Peterson - NCAA Football 2007 20. Michael Jordan - NBA 2K11 19. Allejo - International Superstar Soccer 18. Christian Okoye - Tecmo Bowl 17. Mario Lemieux - NHL 94 16. Thomas Johansson - Virtua Tennis 15. Ricky Henderson - RBI Baseball 4 14. Peyton Manning - Madden (Every year) 13. Jon Dowd - MVP Baseball 2005 12. Charles Barkley - Barkley Shut Up and Jam! 11. Reggie Jackson - RBI Baseball 10. Randall Cunningham - Tecmo Bowl 09. Scottie Pippen - NBA Jam 08. Randy Moss - NFL 2K3 07. Ken Griffey Jr. - Any of the Ken Griffey Jr. games 06. Sunday Tiger Woods - Tiger Woods PGA Tour 05. Lawrence Taylor - Tecmo Bowl 04. Jeremy Roenick - NHL 94 03. Michael Vick - Madden 2004 02. Mike Tyson - Mike Tyson's Punch Out 01. Bo Jackson - Tecmo Bowl
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I'm too young for tecmo bowl and punch out, so the first guy I thought of clicking in this thread was Michael Vick in Madden 04.
The first three I thought of were Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl, Walter Payton in Tecmo Bowl, and Scottie Pippen in NBA Jam. I was not disappointed.
NCAA basketball for Super Nintendo had a sharpshooter named Davidson (i think) who played on the Duke team and he was unreal from 3pt land. Should have made the list... also the fictional guys should have their own list
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There was a bug with Bulls vs Blazers on the SNES with Danny Manning's special move where I could dunk, and get the ball back instead of the other team inbounding. Scored 400 points in a game with him. Now that was unstoppable.
There was also a bug in one of the late '90s NBA games from EA Sports that allowed to centers to constantly make three-pointers but it was difficult to duplicate. My friend could do it and hit 3s with the likes of Mutombo, Ewing, etc. constantly. We had to put a rule in where he could not do that.
player not on list who should be: Jerry Ball (Lions) in Super Tecmo Bowl. you press the dive button over and over again before the ball was snapped...and as soon as it was snapped...about 1/3 of the time it would be an instantaneous sack.
LMFAO - that's Lakers v. Celtics, I loved that game to death. Too bad Hakeem was only on the West All Stars. I can remember the few signature moves too, all launched from that side of the court....let's see, the Chambers double pump, and then Magic had this finger roll, Isiah had a 360 layup, David Robinson had a windmill, Jordan had a long "air" style dunk, Barkley had a long 2-handed gorilla style dunk...Bird had some sort of bank shot layup IIRC.
In Fifa 2006 WC edition (best soccer game ever) Carlos Alberto was one of the Legends you could purchse...... He was amazing. DD
