Box Copy
It's Un-bowl-ieveable!
Tecmo Super Bowl is the most
realistic football game ever programmed! Just check out these great
features:
- Super refined
polygon graphics
- Instant Replay
- Live Commentary
- 3 Different Playing
Perspectives
- Variable Weather
Conditions
- Unlimited Player
Trades
- New Play book system
and new plays
- Updated players and
stats
- New crowd noises
- Free Edit: create
your own dream team
- Free Positions:
Place anyone, anywhere, any time
- New tournament mode
for you and 7 of your closest friends
So get ready to play the
best football of your life - in one of the best games in the world.
Discussion
Tecmo Bowl was one of the few sports games the NES had that I could play
and enjoy immensely. It was designed so that anyone could play, the
choices were few, action was fast, and damn if you didn’t laugh at the
poor player who got launched halfway down the field.
As the game went on, Tecmo kept making it just a bit more realistic with
each release. While others embraced this, a few die-hards didn’t want
it, myself included. The arcade aspect of the game is what made it fun.
With the PlayStation version, that fear is quietly realized. That isn’t
to say Tecmo Super Bowl is a bad game – it’s just not the game it really
should be.
When compared to other games out at the time, it’s good, but not great
nor terrible. It’s essentially a Super Nintendo game given a minor
polygon upgrade on the field and some minor tweaks in all the areas. The
game still controls like the NES original, hike the ball, arrow over to
a player and toss – easy stuff. Sadly, I do miss the “HUT HUT HUT HUT
HUT” of the original one.
If you’re going for nostalgia or a complete collection, by all means
snag it for a few bucks. Otherwise, the NES versions are still the best.
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Trivia
- Tecmo Super Bowl
offers a mode where you choose to be the coach called COA mode, for
'Computer Assist'. Essentially, you only control the punt meter, and
then all play calls. The game will then control the players allowing
you to sit back and simply think out the game, rather than have to
actually play. It does make for a nifty Chess-like atmosphere when
playing against someone else.
- At the title screen,
you can view a very compressed movie clip of Tecmo's then upcoming
game Deception.
- Like other games
around this early era, the players are all sprites. It's pretty fun
to go back and look at just how long it took sports games to catch
up to the polygon revolution.
- In a rather peculiar
move, you're allowed to completely edit real players - names and
all. So if you want the (then) Packers to be lead by Captain
PoopyHead with the All-Star running back Dumb Dumby, you can!
- The last Tecmo Bowl
game released until the DS and Xbox Live Version.
- Tecmo Bowl's legion
of die-hard fans truly are die-hard. There are still on-line leagues
who use the older game's engine but with hacked-in updated stats and
the like.
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