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Anybody still play the tecmo bowl on NES? (1 Viewer)

What makes me feel old is remembering roller skating rinks where kids would form ridiculously large lines to play Space Invaders in the late 1970s.

 
Wow, I loved that game. My brother and I would play in a season drawing teams out of a hat. But we'd never play each other because things would get broken. Didn't seem to matter what team we were, we'd always beat the computer 80-0.. sometimes even 100!

Running over the OL and crushing QBs with the likes of Dennis Byrd, Bruce Smith, and Ronnie Lott was just as much fun as knocking off defenders with Christian Okoye or zipping around with Barry Sanders and Bo Jackson.

 
NorrisB said:
my favorite were the giants, they were way overpowered
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NY was definitely the best team from the defensive side of the ball... LT could block a FG or PAT EVERY SINGLE TIME! Most games were won 6-0. A TD and missed PAT.
billjohnson said:
The 49ers have a crossing pattern that can't be stopped!!
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IMO SF was the best offensive team. "Pass 2" and "Pass 3" to Jerry Rice were both unstoppable. Games vs the 49ers usually ended up in the 36-24 range. Oakland had a hella Offense too with Bo Jackson.Chicago gets props for being the most balanced team on both sides of the ball (playing Walter Payton on O and Mike Singletary on D was cool-- the return game for Chicago was incredible and produced a kick return at least once out of every five tries.I remember something hinky: the teams in Tecmo Bowl were NOT sanctioned by the NFL. So even though the PLAYERS gave their names to be used freely, the TEAM names weren't used. NY, SF, Oakland, and Chicago were named just that (NY, SF, Oakland, and Chicago -- NOT the Giants, 49ers, Raiders, and Bears.)Cool game though. First sports game I ever liked.
 
I still have it, but I haven't plugged in the old NES in a while. I remember that you basically needed your entire team to bring down Bo Jackson. I also remember laughing about the pass routes that receivers run where they will basically reach a point on the field and stand completely still.

 
Tecmo Bowls was good, but Tecmo Super Bowl is 100 X better.

The only problem with both of those games was that they were too easy.

A few things that I think modern day football games could benefit from by stealing from Tecmo:

The whole Excellent/Good/Average/Bad system. I know Madden has the whole changing stats thing, but that just raises or lowers depending how well you produce. The Good/Bad thing sorta simulated nagging or bad injuries.

The cut scenes. There was this one cut scene where when you threw a long pass, and a defender was near, they cut away to a shot where they showed your WR jumping up, then the defender jumping up, then a shot with fingers and the ball. Sometimes the ball would get batted down, or they would cut to a shot where one of the two came down with it. Made it more dramatic.

Oddly enough, I prefer Tecmo Super Bowls way of sorting stats over anything Madden or 2k as done in the past 17/18 years. Very simply, effective, and easy to sort.

The announcements when a particular team won it's division or conference, as well as a half time show and different Super Bowl half time show. They may have been pretty cheesy back then, but at least they gave you something. You win the Superbowl in games now and that's it. There is no "reward" for winning. The ending is no different than a preseason game.

 
Steve Grogan kicks ###!!!

I'll get flack for this, but I always liked Darren Fulcher as DB even over Lott.

 
poopdawg said:
Steve Grogan kicks ###!!!I'll get flack for this, but I always liked Darren Fulcher as DB even over Lott.
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There were a lot of players that were beasts for no reason. The Saints had a return man, some white guy named Gil Fenerty, who may have been the fastest player in the game.
 
kaa said:
What makes me feel old is remembering roller skating rinks where kids would form ridiculously large lines to play Space Invaders in the late 1970s.
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I have bad news. You ARE old.
 
I found a version of tecmo superbowl with current players & teams. You can play it on your PC, but you'll need to download agame engine like Nester.

I'm sure you can find it for free download with a quick search. It's the exact same thing as the old game, but updated players.

 
Back in the early 90's seven of my friends and I would pick teams out of a hat for a season. We had some classic duels back then and I still remember a lot of the plays/games that happened. :rolleyes:

 
I was raised on Tecmo Super Bowl for the Genesis...It's the reason I became a Seahawks fan. I had Cortez Kennedy go over 250 sacks in one season, and Chris Warren both ran and caught for 2500 yards.

What a great game!

 
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Frank Fontaine said:
poopdawg said:
Steve Grogan kicks ###!!!I'll get flack for this, but I always liked Darren Fulcher as DB even over Lott.
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There were a lot of players that were beasts for no reason. The Saints had a return man, some white guy named Gil Fenerty, who may have been the fastest player in the game.
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There were more than a few "bugs" in Tecmo Super Bowl, and Fenerty's ability as a kick returner is one of them. It wasn't because Fenerty was a beast - it was due to an error in the programming that tied the KR to the Right Tackle's Maximum Speed because the returner took the RT's spot in the Kick Return formation. Stan Brock was one of the fastest RT's in Tecmo Super Bowl. In all actuality, Ironhead Heyward was a better guy to have in at Kick Returner because of this combined with his own abilities.Same thing happened on Punt Returns, only the Strong Safety's Max Speed was used instead.As for the topic - I "wasted" so much of my youth in the late 80's and 90's on this game...countless weekend nights spent on all-nighters finishing out my Chiefs seasons to see how high I could rack up the stats - even going so far as to use a wirebound notebook to keep track of my stats due to a programming or memory limitation that would cap the maximum stats you could get in each category.If I remember right, you could never throw for more than 123 TD's or something like that. It just stopped adding to the total in the leaderboards. Sacks topped out at maybe 93 (R.I.P. Derrick Thomas :rolleyes: ). Same for passing yards...capped maybe at 7,300 yards or something like that. It would impact your Passer Rating, because once you hit the cap in TD's/Yards, etc., you'd still have a long way to go before attempts would cap...and so no matter how well you actually did in a game, your Yards/Attempt average would go down towards the end of each season. I don't remember the exact numbers, but the caps were there. :)Of course, I picked it up a few times through college and after. My friends and I would have contests to see who could score the most points in a game (believe I held the record at 127) and rush for the most yards (Okoye pulled in a 839 yard game at one point). Then my NES crapped out. No amount of blowing/wedging/anything would make games work anymore. Sad day in my household.Easily a top 5 all-time game in Tecmo Super Bowl.
 
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I still dust it off, slam the cart in, and slam down the cover every now and then. (only way to get it to work!) Love this game. I still think it's by far the funnest football game to play.

Sucks that even though they are putting a new version out on the DS, they have no NFL Lic because of the #$! holes at EA. I hate that company.

An updated version of Techmo w/ NFL rosters would be kick ### if they kept the gameplay the same. I heard the DS version is open to edit, So if you wanted to take the time you could change the rosters, but who wants to go through all that crap?

 
:virtualnes:

I play Tecmo Super Bowl every once in a while. I love the 49ers because the pass attack was awesome and you kinda have the Okoye Effect when you run with Tom Rathman.

 
machogrande said:
An updated version of Techmo w/ NFL rosters would be kick ### if they kept the gameplay the same.
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Earlier in the thread:
Tecmo said:
give this a whirl... Manning, Brady, Cutler

rom:

http://www.knobbe.org/phpBB2/download/file.php?id=752

emulator for nes:

http://www.emulator-zone.com/download.php/...2.0.0.win32.zip
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I played the 2007 version just the other day. Same gameplay, but they did adjust the run speeds so guys can't just breakoff long runs with the up-and-down diagonal thing.
 
I have, and still play, every single version on my PSP, icluding rosters and attributes for this year.

Fear Gary Reasons and his godly INT rating.

 
Frank Fontaine said:
Tecmo Bowls was good, but Tecmo Super Bowl is 100 X better. The only problem with both of those games was that they were too easy. A few things that I think modern day football games could benefit from by stealing from Tecmo:The whole Excellent/Good/Average/Bad system. I know Madden has the whole changing stats thing, but that just raises or lowers depending how well you produce. The Good/Bad thing sorta simulated nagging or bad injuries.The cut scenes. There was this one cut scene where when you threw a long pass, and a defender was near, they cut away to a shot where they showed your WR jumping up, then the defender jumping up, then a shot with fingers and the ball. Sometimes the ball would get batted down, or they would cut to a shot where one of the two came down with it. Made it more dramatic. Oddly enough, I prefer Tecmo Super Bowls way of sorting stats over anything Madden or 2k as done in the past 17/18 years. Very simply, effective, and easy to sort.The announcements when a particular team won it's division or conference, as well as a half time show and different Super Bowl half time show. They may have been pretty cheesy back then, but at least they gave you something. You win the Superbowl in games now and that's it. There is no "reward" for winning. The ending is no different than a preseason game.
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Tecmo Super was the bomb. In college, we went throught multiple tournaments where we drew teams from a hat and played out the seasons. Few things sucked worse than drawing out Tampa or Indy or Arizona. Speed was everything in that game. I used to sub in Keith Jackson at RB when I drew Philly...has was the fastest guy on the team and the only one you had any shot at out juking your opponent with.And there was always that game where the computer would try and FU by calling your play like 75% of the time or cause fumbles, etc. or have your best WR in "excelllent" suddenly start dropping balls. Tecmo Super was the first game I ever witnessed cause adults to go into apoplectic fits of cussing and controller throwing. Of course the 100 yard hail mary's were a blast as well. WR and DB go off screen and you have no idea if the DB is in step with the WR or not.
 
I forget what version it was, one of them for the Super NES where you could make trades and play franchise mode and draft/create your own players, but during college my buddy and I used to just run the team in the offseason, make a bunch of trades and stuff, and then just emulate the season. We'd then keep track of all the season records and everything. It was great because we'd eventually be able to build these teams into juggernauts.

Good times ...

 
Tecmo Bowl was a pretty average game. Tecmo Super Bowl is imo the best game of all time.

In college me and my friend would draft all 14 teams and then play it out where once you lost with a team they were eliminated.

I've still never met anyone that can beat me doing that. Other rules we played by: No changing plays to make each team's playbook unique. No nosetackle dive as its pretty unfair and ruins the game.

Imo the top tier of teams:

1. SF

2. Philly(only because of QB Eagles...I am absolutely unstoppable with him)

3. Houston

4. NYG

5. Chicago

Most overrated team: either Buffalo or LA Raiders

Most underrated team: Tampa Bay...had one really fast CB, a QB with mobility, and a pretty good WR at the top of the screen who was good at catching deep balls

I havn't played in years now, but I'd gladly bet $$ against anyone using this system.

 
tecmo super bowl is the greatest video game of all time. i still play it from time to time, i've got the same stories as pretty much every other guy my age about entire seasons being played with 12+ guys participating, etc. simply the best game ever made.

if both players are allowed to set their own playbooks, i'm pretty much unbeatable with any team except the Pats or Colts.

the new Tecmo comes out in about a month, it looks like they've kept the actual gameplay pretty similar.

 
Tecmo Super Bowl rocked. I still take it personal and exact revenge against the Bills for my beloved Oilers miserable choke-job in the playoffs. Once I injured Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed, and Kenneth Davis all in the same playoff game. I was still ticked off that I couldn't get Frank Reich or Don Beebe hurt though. Ernest Givins is a beast on that game...

 
blake said:
i couldn't resist
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Wow Bentley tore you up.I always preferred the Bears.

Neal Anderson was unstoppable and that defense was loaded everywhere. I think I got 23 INT's with Carrier one year.

I always like the David Fulcher/Ronnie Lott effect where they'd just run over a guy even o-lineman.

 
The Oilers were insane...Warren Moon with sick 4 WR sets, the proper Run and Shoot offense: Haywood Jeffries, Curtis Duncan, Drew Hill, Ernest Givens. Ray Chidress was the man on defense for Houston.

 
This thread has inspired me to buy it off Ebay.

And yea the Oilers were insane...nobody that fast or anything that great, but it seemed as if you could just throw it deep 4 times in a row and you were practically guarnteed to catch at least one even against good coverage.

 
Great post guys. The YouTube clip cracked me up. Bo was unstoppable but I never thought of running backwards that many times on a TD run. I loved being Ronnie Lot & LT on Defense.

 
The swing pass to Walter Payton was brutal on that game. If he was not covered, for whatever reason he ran faster than human on that play.

 
I think Al Davis still plays. Why else would he consider himself the owner of a legit football team? He's stuck handing the ball off to Bo Jackson on every play! Too bad real football doesn't work that way Al.

 
Assani Fisher said:
Tecmo Bowl was a pretty average game. Tecmo Super Bowl is imo the best game of all time.In college me and my friend would draft all 14 teams and then play it out where once you lost with a team they were eliminated.I've still never met anyone that can beat me doing that. Other rules we played by: No changing plays to make each team's playbook unique. No nosetackle dive as its pretty unfair and ruins the game.Imo the top tier of teams:1. SF2. Philly(only because of QB Eagles...I am absolutely unstoppable with him)3. Houston4. NYG5. ChicagoMost overrated team: either Buffalo or LA RaidersMost underrated team: Tampa Bay...had one really fast CB, a QB with mobility, and a pretty good WR at the top of the screen who was good at catching deep ballsI havn't played in years now, but I'd gladly bet $$ against anyone using this system.
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I was worse. In college I organized a big Madden league where a bunch of guys in my dorm drew a team to play with and we had a huge tourney spread out over several weeks. I also won this huge Nintendo tournament held by Nintendo on campus, which got my name in the paper LOL and a free system and 3 free games.
 
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