1987 arcade/1989 Nintendo Entertainment System American football game from developer Tecmo. Some of the best sports games (for the Nintendo) was from the company Tecmo. This is a review for the game Tecmo Bowl.
This is one of the most fun football games around. It can be either one-player or two-player. The combination of a simple control, strategy and balanced difficulty against the computer is what helped make this game so good. Let's start with the teams. Tecmo was not able to use the real names from the NFL. But they did have the city names:
Indianapolis
Miami
Cleveland
Denver
Seattle
Los Angeles
Washington
San Francisco
Dallas Cowboys
New York Giants
Chicago
Minnesota
Some teams are better than others. Chicago and San Francisco are considered the top two teams. When I play against the computer I always seem to think that Minnesota is the hardest team to play against. The computer is smart in this game. After beating one game against the computer the next team is picked. In week two the computer really tries to intercept any pass attempted. You really have to carefully decide who to pass to.
The game-play control is basic and it seems to work. Your team can select to either pass or run on offense. You can run up, down, left, right or diagonally. The players seem to run a little slow. Overall the game-play is really simple and done right for the NES. It is easy to learn and there are many teams to master. Playing against the computer is basically a season game. You pick a team and then the computer randomly picks a teams to play against you. To finish this game you have to beat all 11 teams. The graphics look OK. You should be able to visualize the football elements. The sound and music is simple, not much variety. The music can get a bit old after a while. They did improve some stuff in the sequel "Super Tecmo Bowl".
Overall this is a sports game. If you really enjoy playing old style football games then Tecmo Bowl is one of the best sports games.
Graphics: 7 out of 10
Music and Sound: 4 out of 10
Game-play: 8.5 out of 10
Presentation: 6 out of 10
Overall: 8.3 out of 10
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