Tecmo Super Bowl

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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact cartridge. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Ask a room full of NES players to name the greatest football game ever made and Tecmo Super Bowl will come up before the question is finished. Tecmo took the lean, addictive formula of the original Tecmo Bowl and built a full league around it: all 28 NFL teams with their real players from the 1990 season, a complete regular season, playoffs, a Pro Bowl you can assemble yourself and the Super Bowl waiting at the end.

On the field it is pure 8-bit electricity. Each team carries a playbook of four running plays and four passing plays, and guessing your opponent's call on defense turns every snap into a mind game. Onside kicks, blocked kicks, fumbles, pitchouts, injuries and time-outs gave it a depth that felt enormous in 1991, while cinematic cut-scenes celebrate big catches, sacks and touchdowns. Players have individual ratings and conditions that shift from week to week, and season stats track the league leaders, so a hot streak from your star running back actually shows up in the numbers. Coach Mode lets you call the plays and leave the execution to the computer.

Then there are the legends. Bo Jackson on the Raiders is the stuff of schoolyard myth, a running back who could reverse field and outrun the entire defense, and Lawrence Taylor's pass rush could end a drive before it started. Christian Okoye, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana and Randall Cunningham all became 8-bit superstars, and arguments over which team was unstoppable have outlived the playing careers of everyone involved.

Few sports games have had a life like this one. Decades later, fans still gather for Tecmo Super Bowl tournaments, and a dedicated hacking community keeps producing updated rosters for modern seasons on the original engine. Playing it on an NES with a standard controller is how the legend was born, and the way it still feels best.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB

Released: 1991
Publisher: Tecmo
Genre: Sports
Players: Single player, Multiplayer

About the game

The teams, the players, and the halftime shows are ready for the ultimate football season, and you're in control. From the first pre-season game to the playoffs, it's your call, your skill, and your team. Can you get to and win the Super Bowl? Tecmo Super Bowl is the only football game to feature onside kicks, blocked passes and kicks, fumbles, pitchout to the running back, player injuries, time-outs, and much, much more! For 1 or 2 players. All 28 NFL teams! Four running plays, four passing plays. Team stats and data. Create your own Pro Bowl. Coach Mode, where you call the plays!

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.

Watch gameplayTecmo Super Bowl on NES

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