This NFL Films Tecmo Bowl Documentary Is Straight Fire
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NFL Films – If you are between the ages of 25 and 45, chances are the first football video game you played was Nintendo’s Tecmo Bowl. It was Madden before Madden, a chance to play as your favorite team and players. Everyone I have told about this week’s episode of NFL Films Presents says two things: “Man, I loved that game” and “I was awesome at Tecmo Bowl”. Check out the feature, tune into NFL Films Presents, airing this week at the following times (all times Eastern):
10/22 at 12:30am — ESPN2
10/24 at 2:30 pm — ESPN2
10/26 at 4:30 pm — NFL Network
10/27 at 1:30pm — NFL Network
First things first. If you are between 25 and 45 the first football game you played was 10 yard fight not Tecmo Bowl. But I guess that’s just semantics since nobody would argue that Tecmo revolutionized video games forever and was arguably the most important video game of all time. In fact I still prefer Tecmo to any game ever invented with the possible exception of Baseball Stars or NHL 94. So naturally I couldn’t wait for this episode to air and watched the entire thing online which I NEVER do. I mean I generally can’t watch anything over 3 minutes on the internet. Not here though. I was glued to it from start to finish and already booked my plane ticket to Madison for next year to put a whoop ass on all these people. Because I know everybody always says they are the best at Tecmo but for real I was the best. I’ll just show up at this thing and wrap Mort into a cocoon of horror like you read about.
PS – As much hype as Bo Jackson always gets whenever you talk Tecmo Bowl nobody ever mentions that the Raiders overall weren’t that good. Just shows football is a team game. The 49ers were by far the best to the point we banned them. Everybody else was fair game.
Double PS – Can you get less respect than this documentary is getting with these play times? It aired for the first time last night at 12:30? Shit this should have been on all the networks instead of the debate.
Madden ’94 Emmit Smith and the Cowboys were straight up silly. Run for like 500 yards and 14 TDs winning games 104 to 10.
Ronnie Lott was the best player to have in the game, hands down
My favorite video game of all time. I absolutely dominate in Tecmo.
LT was unstoppable, too bad the same won’t hold true for his heart. Sneaky Death Pool mortal lock.
10 Yard Fight was the first and worst football game ever made. IIRC the Giants were pretty sick as well. Or am I thinking Tecmo SuperBowl?
My first game was (I think) titled Football for the Atari 2600. My next game was great…..titled 4th & Inches by ActiVision for the Commodore 64. Same company that produced the “Baseball!” game for the C64. If I recall, the special edition came with a 2nd floppy disk that allowed you to create your own team and input your own names for the players. So I made a team with a lot of my family and friends…..I remember my dad was the RB and I was one of the WRs. It was really cool for a pre-teen kid. Then, I discovered masturbation.
shit i remember Bo and marcus allen on the raiders…beast mode!!
Edit: Accolade made those video games, not ActiVision.
Hahahah…”Then I discovered masterbation”
Edit #2: Hardball! was the name of Accolade’s baseball game. Man, I suck today.
LT was ridiculous. if you took him back to return a punt, he was gone and was flattening people on the way.
as far as sports games go, rbi baseball was better.
NHL 93 is the greatest sports video game ever made
boom. just wasted an hour. great show though.
I think I spent two hours a day in the shitter playing Coleco football (1983)…*bleep*…*Bleep*…*BLEEP*… tmi?
I can still hear the cries from my old roommates complaining about how unfair it is to play against Barry Sanders…
mort…they’re fucking laughing at you..not showing you off.
Fuck me. I just watched that entire episode. Does that make me ghey?… I’d say, yes.
*nerd alert* There was actually an official Tecmo Super Bowl records web site, and I held two of the distinctions. 1) Least amount of rushing yards allowed during a season and 2) Most catches by 1 player in a game. I’m way more proud than embarrassed by that.
Always fun watching Bo Jackson flicking off tacklers like mosquitoes.
one kid in the video is wearing a #11 Redskins jersey with Bledsoe on the back… the fuck?
2 words: Cyber Barry.
NYCYYankeehater, haha thats great bro. That was absolutely the first football game there was and that shit was sick. Had to push up or down with the joystick to set the blocks. The screen kept goin and goin. Fuckin awesome. Fuck im old as shit.
I actually looked up Bledsoe on Wikipedia to make sure I wasn’t fucking crazy and he didn’t sign with the Redskins after the Cowboys or something.
Only explanation is this dude doesn’t realize that Washington DC is not in Washington State. Mind Bottling.
When I saw that, I felt like when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle
Those guys must pull so much ass it’s unbelievable…
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Christian Okoye FTW
“Mort” does not get a whole lot of pussy.
No doubt about it, Mort has a thick 9 and 1/2 inch blood sausage swinging from his waistline… dude’s banging the cashiers at the local Pathmark like it’s nobody’s business.
Best 25 minutes I’ve ever spent at work.
Glad to see Okoye get some credit. Bo gets all the love, but if Okoye was in “excellent” condition, he was the most unstoppable force in video game history. Problem is, he was terrible in “bad” condition. Bo could still be a game-changer in “bad.”
@borgesucks, you stole my thunder bro. Okoye was very underrated in that game. While all my friends were arguing over the Raiders, Giants, 49ers I was running rough shot over them with the Chiefs and the Nigerian Nightmare!!!
Willie gault off oakland’s bench was the secret weapon. GOAT when it comes to tecmo
That video just made me fuck my hand.
Don’t forget about Barry Word.
What happens if the game resets during the tournament?
it was all about the Bo Jackson/Marcus Allen tandem. I can deal with bum-ass Jay Schroeder at QB. And you were throwing to Todd Christiansen and Tim Brown. I made it work all day.
NHL 94 was fuckin butt-cheeks though. 93 was way better. the most important aspect to a hockey game is the fights. in 93, there were unlimited fights and you could make a dude’s head bleed and put him out for the game. 94′s gameplay was drastically better, but there was no fighting, so that’s an automatic DQ. i think i played 93 all the way up til 97 came out and they brought fighting back, albeit only one per game. but they had multi-game injuries, so you could at least shoot for that. and anyway, it’s Blades of Steel all day. Countless fights, loser goes shorthanded. the way it should be.
had a buttonhook to bavaro that was stopped 0% of the time. timing route, soo sick
Okoye was undeniable.
Somebody please get “Mort” some claritin d or a fucking wedgie
for anyone in boston interested in a tecmo tourney we are having one in conneticut on dec 1st.
http://tecmobowl.org/topic/51334-ct-tournament-dec-1st-cuban-bowl-5/
I’m looking forward to defending my Cuban bowl title and seeing some new faces at this tourney.