Let us know what game you’d pick and if you think Tom was right, again? If you like the podcast, please subscribe and leave a review saying how wonderful it is, and tell all your friends. It is also not a sports game! Just because a baseball is present, doesn't make it a sport! If you kick a football through a school window, are you playing football? No way. It's got brilliant music, enticing visuals, a cast of characters each with their own special moves and super attacks. The more the ball is hit, the faster it goes, leading to high intensity matches where spacing is crucial. Lethal League is a brilliant fighting game where instead of smacking each other in the faces directly, players must land blows on their opponent via a baseball placed in the centre of the screen. A feast for the ears! Connor - Lethal League

This is just one example of the glorious use of balls in Conker, too there's more in the podcast. And what do you do? Well, you get between the boiler's legs and smash its balls with a house brick. My primary argument is for the Bourgeois Big Bollocked Boiler, a memorable boss that's a giant furnace that happens to have 'balls of brass, polished to the nth degree'. When I think of bollocks in games, my first thought went right to N64 classic Conker's Bad Fur Day, which is utterly packed with balls. When this topic was chosen for the podcast, I obviously decided to interpret balls as testicles, because I am a fully-grown, 33-year-old adult. Surely even Jim can’t snatch this victory away from me? Alex – Conker's Bad Fur Day Not a sports game? Check! This one is a full-on western. Rockstar modelled those horses accurately. Great game? Check! Perhaps one of the greatest of all time, even. “The boy” knows he should have kept the ball lower. I’m sorry, OK? It’s easy to point fingers and say things should have been different. I’ve tended to say something like “It’s a 30-minute panel show where we decide the best game in a specific category,” but given that some of these episodes now touch 40 minutes that’s a blatant lie, although still a goal – sometimes we just get a bit carried away. “What is VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast?” you ask, still a bit confused about the genre-defying opening to this podcast article. Otherwise, we’ll be doing shows like Best game with a character that wears trousers. Coming up with new topics each week is harder than I imagined, and I could do with a break. If you’ve got suggestions for topics, we’d love to hear them.

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In that moment the boy vowed that, should it ever come to pass in his future, he’d never take part in a 30-minute (or thereabouts) podcast about balls in sports video games, so welcome to the VG247 Best Games Ever Podcast, Episode 9: Best game with balls that isn’t a sports game. Heartbreak, the same felt by so many of his sporting idols. Steve was still crying on the sidelines, more now, perhaps knowing he’d bottled it as the team’s main attacker. Time accelerated in a blur, so in an instant the Under 11s Cubs football team was out of the tournament. a toe even, impossibly bulging out of a football boot, nudging the ball onto the post. until a leg popped up, seemingly stretched out beyond all boundaries of human contortion. The goalie dived the wrong way, the ball sailing clearly into the net. Using the aggro dad’s words against him, he struck the ball to the keeper’s right, and it worked. Thoughts flashed through his mind: why is a defender taking this penalty? Why is one of the strikers crying on the sidelines? Who’s dad is that shouting and hollering about how “he’s going to go to your right”? What happens if he misses? It was a cold afternoon, but inside this arena (a field), things had reached boiling point. The goalkeeper looked nervous, but then so was the penalty taker. He stepped up to the penalty spot, placed the ball and shuffled back. Time to be a hero, to go down as a legend, forever remembered in the history books as the person who took the team into the final.

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