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#57. Tecmo Super Bowl (NES, 1991)



I never actually played this game as a kid. I first tried it in 2003, when a guy who lived on my dorm floor in college had this game as part of his NES collection. He beat me when we played, but it seemed like fun. I started grinding away at this game on my own, with the intention of getting good enough to beat him. I think that whole winter break I played like an hour a day, and I just couldn't stop playing it. For a while, I was a regular on the Tecmo Super Bowl board here and helped out with some projects. I also ended up finding some online Tecmo community website where I could match up with people, and it would track everyone's stats, and I played games in there every now and then for a couple years.

All the stat tracking in TSB, which is way more than an NES game should have, really makes that season mode stand out. It was a lot of fun to just pick a team and try to get some player on the leaderboard for some stat. It's also fun just to run some sims. Teams and players generally even out to normal across seasons but there is also a high likelihood for wacky plays or results. There are also online updates to the game with more modern rosters, which are cool, but most of my play time has been with the original. Thanks to Tecmo, almost all my knowledge of '80s-early '90s NFL ties in to players who were in Tecmo Super Bowl.

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