I love it. I hate it. But welcome to 1995.

It's almost as if sports gaming has gone Hollywood, with no real good ideas you can always dip into your past and recycle old ones. Unlike the last decade where developers tried to separate from their past and create new and exciting concepts this decade seems to be marking a return to sports gaming's roots.

Let's face it, we're awaiting NBA Jam and Tecmo Bowl. If we get a Mutant League game alongside Ken Griffey Jr.'s Baseball, we're going to be in business friends. We've gone fully old school.

It's not that I mind the move towards more simple gaming, a wise man once said rediscovering where you came from can often make your future path much more clear. I think if these games are a commercial success, publishers may take notice and start considering how sports games can tap into what made them great in the first place. It wasn't the intricacies of how a curveball should move or how many people should be able to tackle the ball carrier: it was that the original games of our genre were balanced and simply fun.

Here's to a rediscovery of what made our genre great.