Tecmo Super Bowl (SNES)
Posted: September 2nd, 2018, 4:04 am
The NES was blessed with two Tecmo football games, but the SNES was treated to 3. This is the first of them. Tecmo Super Bowl ruled the NES, and beat Madden in the 16-bit era. Madden might have been king of the PS1 and PS2 eras, and been the only player in the game thereafter, but Tecmo won the 16-bit era hands down. The games are just more fun.
I remember many years ago being at my friend's house playing this being very disappointed that my options for the Patrtiots' quarterback were Scott Zolak or Scott Secules. Nowhere to be found was Drew Bledsoe. Bummer! Although it was hard to get much worse than my previous options between a Steve Grogan in the twilight of his career or Marc Wilson. Other than that, the rosters seem fairly accurate for 1993.
The gameplay is almost a carbon-copy of the NES version, though you do have a goal-line run play that you can call, which, if successful, nets you three yards. I like how you can add in rain and snow, though I haven't played enough to see if they had the presence of mind to disable snow games in Miami or Tampa Bay during season mode.
The only thing that bites is that the only friend I have who still plays this is light years better than I am.
New Bears' coach Dave Wannstedt told Harbs during the offseason that he WILL bulk up!
The snowy Astroturf at Riverfront Stadium where Cincinnati fans saw the Big Dead Machine finish 5th at 73-89 that summer, and now the Bungles turning in a miserable 3-13 season:
I remember many years ago being at my friend's house playing this being very disappointed that my options for the Patrtiots' quarterback were Scott Zolak or Scott Secules. Nowhere to be found was Drew Bledsoe. Bummer! Although it was hard to get much worse than my previous options between a Steve Grogan in the twilight of his career or Marc Wilson. Other than that, the rosters seem fairly accurate for 1993.
The gameplay is almost a carbon-copy of the NES version, though you do have a goal-line run play that you can call, which, if successful, nets you three yards. I like how you can add in rain and snow, though I haven't played enough to see if they had the presence of mind to disable snow games in Miami or Tampa Bay during season mode.
The only thing that bites is that the only friend I have who still plays this is light years better than I am.
New Bears' coach Dave Wannstedt told Harbs during the offseason that he WILL bulk up!
The snowy Astroturf at Riverfront Stadium where Cincinnati fans saw the Big Dead Machine finish 5th at 73-89 that summer, and now the Bungles turning in a miserable 3-13 season: