2003-2006, such a fire era for sports gaming and gaming in general. The reason games like SSX, Tony Hawk and even NBA Street worked is because you didn't didn't need to be a fan of snowboarding or skateboarding to love these games
Bro it's like EA deliberately said, "how can we make ourselves the most hated"? Def Jam Fight For NY and NBA Street Vol. 2 was the peak of video game existence.
I saved my lunch money for weeks to buy Def Jam Vendetta. My Mom saw me playing and thought I actually stole it since she bought all my games. She actually took me back to the store and asked the workers at EB Games if I bought it. When they told her I did and looked at her like she was insane she never questioned me again.
@@EternallyBlu I was 12 at the time, so I can kinda understand her suspicion. But she should have trusted me. I milked the fact that she was wrong and I was right for a long time tho tbh. 🤣
These kids have no clue what it was like to go to gamestop with your boys to collectively buy one of these games and then have to fight to see who gets to take it home for the 1st playing. Passing the case around to read the back and pamphlet inside. Whoever got to play the game 1st, the other person took the case home to look at and read until the switch was made. Sometimes, you had a double disc just for the music, like with nba Live. What a time to be a gamer 😥
Yup these kids today don’t know how we were even excited to get the manual in the game case that was a big deal we would look at the art and read it at school and going over to your friends house to play game with the kids in the neighborhood we went house to house and everyone had different consoles man great times!!
The FIFA Street series was very populair outside the US. FIFA Street 2 was amazing, from the story to the ability to edit the playground and club name.
Countless hours spent playing NBA Street vol 2. One of the most enjoyable basketball games of all time. NFL Street and NFL Street 2 were other classics. EA really was on point with their games back in the day. Truly the best times to be a gamer. EA is the true embodiment of the saying: you either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.
I just miss when studios took risks. Games back then were very hit and miss, but when they were a hit, man they were phenomenal. There's a reason these games and games like The Simpsons Hit & Run are remembered fondly
Thats what sucks about games nowadays and why there is no experimental games. Games cost so much to make now and Dev’s only want to use existing franchise’s cause new concepts aren’t imaginative or sticking. Studios/companies are less willing to invest new/creative ideas as one major flop could bankrupt them these days in the current gaming landscape.
Amazing script you wrote here, plair plair. EA Big definitely fueled a LOT of my playing time in the early and mid 2000s. EA as a whole from 2000 to 2010 was a force to be reckoned with.
EA Sports Big was just great and had so many classics. NBA and NFL Street, Def Jam Vendetta, Def Jam Fight for NY, SSX, SSX Tricky, FIFA Street, etc. Back when EA cared about making their games fun instead of money
@@sosamanotf642I loved the series since the first one, but the reboot didn't appealed to me. Graphics wise, it was drab, the tracks were cool but to real looking (no spray painted jumps, no more light signs, no more tribunes) it was very much lacking in what made the series fun. So I bought it but regretted it.
The downfall of EA shows just how much its important to stick to what your good at. Whats making you have the most success and not trying to change it up or become mainstream.
Def Jam NBA Street and NFL street all need to come back. The amount of talent in all of these industries now days would make these games insane to play!
Aw man, I love watching these kinds of retro gaming history videos gamer. thank you bro. If it isn't to much to ask, can you, in the future, do more videos of short documentaries on the kinds of games that lead you to become the gamer2323?
Def Jam Fight for NY, SSX3, Sled storm, freekstyle and nba street vol.2 are still very much amazing in retro gaming terms. But back then when it came out I played these games for months on end every damn day. No wonder I had bad grades as a kid, because my big bro had a good taste in gaming but he had to work basically every day up to 16 hours a day so I had his PS2 always to myself . Good times indeed!
what i distinctly remember about SSX that really stood out to me was how long the runs were.. because it was like a racing game but without the laps, so a run felt like it went on forever... i remember being amazed at how long a track could be.. because car racing would be like 3 laps on the same track or something, but an SSX run would just be one long track, i remember thinking it was definitely something that was technically impressive and advanced... those SSX runs were so long the game dang near felt open world lol
Outstanding video bro and this brought me straight back to my childhood. The first two NBA Street and Def Jam games were straight 🔥 🔥 🔥 I have no idea what the hell has happened to EA these days but I definitely am curious if they would ever consider reviving these franchises from the ashes. Probably not but we shall see lol
Never really got to experience NBA Street during that time. I was an NBA ballers guy myself back then. NBA Ballers Phenom🔥🔥🔥 But I remember playing Fifa street, NFL street 2 and Def Jam Fight for NY on PSP and SSX tricky on PS2. Those days were soo timeless. 😭
Man the things I’d do for an ssx tricky remaster or even a modern ssx game that actually feels like the classic ones. Spent countless hours playing those games growing up, I don’t think anything will ever truly match the style, music and technical yet arcade feeling gameplay from this era of EAbig games.
I’m currently replaying the whole Def Jam Fight for NY story over now on Emulator PC the gameplay still feels so satisfying and I forgot how good the voice acting actually was. That whole era was just special man time by flying.
Passed ffny n vendetta on the deck like 5 times i can confirm that shit looks wayy better than the ps2, plus cheaper. Them ffny copies still going for like $100 💀💀
Def Jam Vendetta and Def Jam Fight for NY were fire. All the AKI Corporation developed wrestling games were. Their director Geta-san just worked on AEW Fight Forever.
I would like to see these games make a return, but I just can't help but think that EA might ruin them. Like some remasters, or remakes, or reboots, or new sequels would be nice with character customization and online multiplayer. Another game I would like to see make a comeback is Fight Night, like I really love that game growing up. And I know that it's know part of EA's big division but I'd bring it up since we're basically taking about EA games that were good back in the day, in the golden era of gaming.
Fifa Street 2 was my go-to EA Sports Big Game and my first. Was loads of fun then. Wouldn't mind playing it again today. However, it seems that with time, the subsequent entries in the series started losing their "magic". So I truly get what you said in the video. Thanks for the nostalgic trip man🔥.
A lot of people in the comments are heavily misinformed. These publishers change views depending on the CEO. John Rico didn’t want to keep doing the BIG games because he wanted to use that budget to expand on original Ips, that’s how we got Mirrors Edge Dead Space Dragon Age Mass Effect They had an SSX passion project in 2012, that y’all did not support btw. Which is the same thing that would happen today. Y’all don’t support these types of games.
The NFL Street 2 intro is absolutely LEGENDARY where you space out thinking you're in the NFL and the Jeremy freaking Shockey yells at you to get you outta la la land
Def Jam is still the best wrestling game to this day. Nba Street was the natural evolution of Nba Jam. Nfl street did the same for NFL Blitz. It was a great time for gaming.
Gamers today will know the epic feeling of picking mario, Lebron , Carmelo and doing the sickest game breaker dunk on someone . Or picking the Pittsburgh Steelers /Baltimore ravens and literally suplexing a wide receiver as they try to hurdle you Or that epic …freaking EPIC intro scene with def jam fight for New York booting up on your ps2/Xbox Memories
FIFA Street is such a nostalgia. Reminds me of the good old days you ran home from school to start the PS2 with your homies and play till mom comes in to say you should spend more time outside 😅
NFL Street 1/2, SSX Tricky/3, and Def Jam Vendetta/Fight for NY were my go-to games and still are. I miss EA Sports BIG so much. They need to remaster these games.
I've never clicked on a thumbnail this fast in my entire life. I loved theses games growing up my friends and I loved ssx and fifa Street we played those games before and after we wrote our high school exams lol. We all passed too
every single one of these titles where masterpieces, i loved nba street, i loved ssx, i loved def jam fight for NY where are their remastered versions 😭
NBA Street Vol. 2 is still to this day the best basketball game ever made. They caught lightning in a bottle on that one. Even the soundtrack peaked on that one. Still pull it off the shelf every 6 months or so, even to this day!
you raise a valid point on there being too many BIG games all at once. I definitely remember feeling a slight burnout around when NFL Street came out. I don't blame BIG for releasing so many games though. That has to fall back on EA. They saw dollar signs and I'd imagine, like Activision and Ubisoft do, made them release a bunch of them. We also need to remember how easy it was to develop games back then. GTA for example: GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories all released between 2001-2006. GTA5 came out in 2013.. it is now 2023 and GTA6 hasn't even been shown yet. So sadly, all these things added to loss of BIG. It really sucks
Ssx tricky would be one for the ages if redone with the same effort from back in the day. Updated sound tracks and visuals would add some flare. Also, no snowboarding game recently released that has had any impact either.
Great Video My Good Brother! I actually bought a PS2 during Covid 2020. I went a purchased The Def Jam Series, Street Basketball & Football series as well! Multi-Tap & 4 controllers 😎
I loved the NBA Street games, I was mainly watching family play the games, I never got to play, myself...but the whole aesthetic, the commentary by Bobbito, the soundtrack, characters, animation, you can't recreate that. If the series were to hypothetically return, it definitely wouldn't feel the same
I still play my PS2 today I got all the NBA Street games all the DEF jam games and all the NFL street games good times good memories never be the same😔
Unfortunately i was legit homeless during that era so i only briefly played anything from Big and i believe its an SSX game. But i remember my friends raving about them and they are still in their collection. Only a few games i can honor from that era, Metroid Prime, Madden with Vick and Young on the cover maybe Ray Lewis, NHL Hits, Smackdown. I missed alot back then unfortunately so if they remastered those games id be in for a treat
Broo FIFA Street and Def Jam Vandetta/Fight For NY in my neighborhood with my friends it was like a battle of trash talk all day, so many tournament we did back then.. 2000’s era was the peak of video games what a time we were lucky to live in
After my first experience with SSX Tricky (the demo), damn, I was on a look out for ANY game that had "EA BIG" written on the cover. I lost countless hours to SSX3 and both the Def Jam games. I think it was that era of hip hop and rap from the early to mid 2000s, the B.E.T. era, you had all sorts of game representing urban, hip hop, rap and fashion culture when it was at an all time high and the influence it had on video games at the time. Certainly was the golden age of gaming for me too.
