GameFocu writes: "There was a time when video game football was simple. There were no 3–inch thick playbooks to memorize. You didn’t have 42 screens of stats to monitor. And you didn’t have 12 different modes of play to decide between. It was just you, 12 sprites and a brownish pixel that was supposed to be a football. As EA’s Madden franchise grew to eventually dominate the electronic version of the sport, the ease-of-play style that opened the game up to everyone diminished. It became a complicated mess that only fans could appreciate, leaving non-fans and the casual passer-by on the sidelines."
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "We only have a few weeks left in our look at whether certain game remakes trumped their predecessors and this sixth part we are turning our attention from Dracula’s castle to the gridiron for a match between Tecmo Bowl and its modern remake Tecmo Bowl: Throwback. Now I’m not the biggest football fan (hockey is more my speed) but I loved playing Tecmo Bowl back in the day on the NES, especially in multiplayer. The game wasn’t really all that much about football but a great competitive, arcade-style experience that could be experienced just as well by sports fans and casual gamers alike. In 2010 the game was remade (using mechanics from its sequel Tecmo Super Bowl) as Tecmo Bowl: Throwback, a more modern take on the classic for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360’s digital stores."
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Man, who wants to start a Tecmo Bowl league with me? Does it work online? Can I make my own college teams? ... I'm gonna have to look into this.
Dude I am ready. I don't know if you can make your own teams, but you can definitely do online stuffs.
Tecmo Bowl Throwback on Xbox LIVE Arcade has a lot of similarities to Tecmo Super Bowl on NES. Unfortunately, this includes the bad stuff.
