Dan Littman

Top Ten Sports Games

Dan Littman

Chances are you%squotll never score a touchdown for an NFL team or put a dragster through its paces. But you can get a sense of what the superstars experience by testing yourself on computer simulations of various professional and extreme sports. Here we%squotve pulled together ten of the most popular sports games and simulations from PC World%squots FileWorld software library; if these don%squott make you cheer yourself hoarse, click the FileWorld link to your right and play with dozens more.

1. Fatal Fumes: Race against intelligent opponents in a hot car with a great steering touch. Warning: Don%squott get distracted by the 256-color full-screen parallax scrolling by at 70 frames per second.

2. Test Drive 4: Set up your crew in Keswick, England, and prepare to run the Dodge Viper against the Shelby Cobra in this demo of exotic supercar and legendary muscle-car races on tracks around the world.

3. Jack Nicklaus 4: Chop away at the turf on five Jack Nicklaus signature courses and pick up some tips from the Golden Bear.

4. Football Pro 97: Strap on the pads and limber up for some real NFL action over a modem, local area network, or the Internet.

5. Virtual Pool 2: Chalk up those cue sticks, it%squots time to head to the pool hall for a game of nine ball.

6. Football Fury: You pick your team, your opponent, and the plays that will get you down to the end zone. This file covers 1997 rules and teams. (16-bit version also available.)

7. Daytona USA Deluxe: You%squotre thundering down a straightaway at 250 mph in a Daytona stock car when another car clips you. You react with precision control and steer yourself out of trouble. Now the first turn comes soaring into view, so you squeeze the wheel and lightly tap the brakes. Will you make it--or will you eat the wall?

8. Links LS 98: The update to this detailed golfing simulation has reflective water, flags flapping in the breeze, and blimps drifting by overhead. It redraws the screen faster and supports up to eight players over the Internet or a local area network.

9. Basketball ShootOut: Your objective is to sink five baskets in three minutes from each of four designated hotspots.

10. FIFA Soccer %squot97: Play a demo game that pits the German and English teams against each other.

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