9. Alan Trammel, Detroit Tigers, RBI Baseball: He led off, he had speed and could steal bases, and had the power to hit HR's. The Tigers were a dangerous team, and he was the catalyst that got the offense going.
8. Medium Sized Guy, Ice Hockey, Nintendo: He could win face off draws if you needed him to, he could shoot as hard as the fat buckets, and could catch the skinny guys that just skated around with the puck and you would knock him down. He was just an all around gritty player that got the job done.
7. Mark Messier, Edmonton Oilers, Original NHL, Sega: He was just a mean guy. All you had to do with Mess was throw the puck at the goalie and take a full speed charge at him. He would ram the goalie into the net and it would be a goal.
6. Danny Wuerrfel, Florida Gators, College Football '97 Sega: His accuracy still hasn't been duplicated by a video game QB yet. His touch pass hitting receivers Ike Hilliard, Reidel Anthony, & Jacquez Green was filthy, and you could score from anywhere on the field.
5. Charles Barkley, Philadelphia 76ers, Lakers vs. Celtics Sega: If you gave the ball to Barkley just outside of the 3 point line moved him to perpendicular with the free throw line, then moved to the free throw line and then hard at the basket, Barkley would throw down his patented "Gorrilla Slam" every single time, and there was nothing, not even Bill Lambier and his WWF tactics, could do about it. You could score EVERY SINGLE TIME down the court, and that's just not fair.
4. Lawrence Taylor, N.Y. Giants, Original Ninendo Tecmo Bowl: LT played on the bottom side and simply would cause hell for opponents. He could block kicks, cover the field from side to side, and he had no drug problems or rehab stints.
3. Jeremy Roenick, Chicago Blackhawks, NHL '95: He had the speed to go down the ice with the puck, he had the size that if you had the right speed burst, the opponent would get injured. And he had the accuracy and velocity on his shot that simply caused nightmares for opponents.
2. Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles, Madden '92: He was the complete combo. He could throw the ball 60 yards and he could outrun everyone on the opposing defense. Having a weapon like that on the field was simply unfair to opponents.
1. Bo Jackson, L.A. Raiders, Original Ninendo Tecmo Bowl: Bo Jackson had one play: Run 1. There was only one way he could get the ball, and yet if you were playing the Raiders, you guess Run 1 every time on defense just because if you didn't and he did get the ball, it was simply a magical run. People kind of talk about Bo Jackson in hushed terms because of the way his career ended. But these are the same people that knew how talented he was, and he was purely unstoppable.
*SIDE NOTE: Eric Dickerson DOES NOT QUALIFY. Dickerson was on a small number of the Original Tecmo Bowl games and was probably a better player than Bo Jackson because he had both running plays to him and had a passing play to him. But he was only on a small fraction of the games, and the majority had Albert Bently as the Colts' RB. If Dickerson was on the majority of the games, he would be #1 video game athlete of all-time.
