Favorite Tecmo Bowl Game (now with screen shots)

[classicb]

Tecmo Bowl (Arcade) 1987
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Tecmo Bowl (NES) 1988
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Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) 1991
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Tecmo Bowl (Game Boy) 1991 *note still has same rosters as '88 game
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Tecmo Super Bowl (SNES/Genesis) 1993
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Tecmo Super Bowl II: Special Edition (SNES/Genesis) 1994
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Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition (SNES/Genesis) 1995
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Tecmo Super Bowl (PSX) 1997
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Tecmo Bowl (wireless) 2003
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[Menacer]

Absolutely has to be Tecmo Bowl for the NES. I've honestly never played the arcade one (I should try to, some day), but out of the whole series, the original is my favorite. It's simple enough to be spectacular; the others get too complicated to be a "simple" game, and then they're just not very good "complex" games.

[SoulBlazer]

Super Tecmo Bowl for me. While the original was fun, Super improved on it in every way. I've played some Final Edition and it seems like a good game. Never played the others.

[Mattiekrome]

The original is by far my fav, simplicity at its best, plus the way can rush for like 400+ yds. a game by running in the zigzag pattern

[oesiii]

Tecmo Super Bowl for me, although I put in a lot of time with the original. For me everything was improved for the sequel like making some of those running backs easier to tackle :)

[Proclus]

No contest: Tecmo Super Bowl (NES).

[spoon]

Tecmo Super Bowl a million times over. Keeps mad stats, lets you save, has all the teams and players, tight control,more plays, custom playbooks, mucho fun.

Tecmo Bowl was fun, but, TSB blasted it in everyway. lacks all the teams, only has 4 plays, and stat keeping. Does not have the save feature, although it does have a password system. My biggest complaint is that it is almost impossible to complete short yardage pass plays in TB vs. another player. if you are good enough, you can intercept the ball everytime.

ZigZag pattern works better in TSB IMHO. The tighter control in TSB allows you to do circlels and all kinds of great cutbacks.

[Simply Dave]

Tecmo Super Bowl. One of my all-time favorite games. :)

[classicb]

Well here is my take on the Tecmo Bowl franchise.

Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) is my all time favorite. As already stated it improved on allot of features and became the first football game ever to have both NFL and NFLPA licensing. It also introduced the idea of keeping track of stats throughout a season mode.

Tecmos Super Bowl (SNES/Genesis) is close behind because it's essentially the same game ported to the SNES and Genesis. It also had an incredible new feature the touchback.

Tecmo Bowl (NES) Is a great game but as also stated above if you're playing with experienced players they will pick every pass and block every field goal. The Game Boy version is also a port of this version.

Then things take a turn for the worse. They start messing with the field view in Special Edition and Final Edition. Final Edition can be fun because you can make a player. We won't talk to much about the Playstation version. Its like a bad version of Final Edition. I only played the arcade version a few times and my cell phone won't support the new Tecmo Bowl game.

Tecmo had plans for a PS2 version in 2001/02 but couldn't afford the licensing. Chances are it probably would have sucked but who knows they did return to their roots with the cell phone game.

[miaandjohnrule]

I voted Tecmo Super bowl for NES , it's a party fav to this day. I've got to get me a updated roster version from leonk.

[kainemaxwell]

Tecmo Super Bowl for me. One the few football games I really like. Hopw are the SNES editions?

[swlovinist]

Super Bowl for the Nes hands down. I would get up extra early to meet my good friend at his house before school to play a game. The game was a perfect blend of playing your favorite NFL characters....in a totally unrealistic environment. The game was not about realism, but stats, strong simplistic gameplay, and most of all.......Jerry Rice that could catch any friggin ball thrown to him. For me, I it was the most played Nes game and a game I still bust out. The game still rocks!

[chrisballer]

I like tb and tsb but i like the first one the best just because of all the hours it was played at my house. I actually played about 6 games just 2 days ago and still love the game. :rocker:

[videogameking26]

Tecmo Super Bowl on NES :)

[The Manimal]

TSB (NES) is one of the greatest games ever IMO.


I will have to say that TSB 2 and 3 are not that bad. It took a while, but they are still pretty solid games. I think they improved on the formula in quite a few spots, though the weak point is that they made it TOO simulation like in the play. No crazy super long passes or anything like that. My only gripe is that at least 2 times per season, a game freezes up and I have to reset the thing. :angry:

[kainemaxwell]

.Jerry Rice that could catch any friggin ball thrown to him. For me, I it was the most played Nes game and a game I still bust out. The game still rocks!
That's how I wonmost my games- long bombs to Rice. :)

[autobotracing]

What other game can you find a white walter payton ? LOL


You won't!

I love tecmo bowl but tecmo super bowl is my second fave.

[Gamereviewgod]

The Playstation one.

Oh wait.....BEST one. Oh, heh. Yeah, sorry.

I'm going out on a limb. Not that I don't like the originals, but create-a-player is just too much fun to ignore in III. I had almost an entire Bears team made up with friends. Same basic gameplay, great stat tracking (I'm the best QB in the league??!!), and a nice graphics engine. What more do you want?

[Lady Jaye]

The first Techmo Bowl on the NES. We spent countless hours playing that on the NES, back in the day.

[classicb]

I voted Tecmo Super bowl for NES , it's a party fav to this day. I've got to get me a updated roster version from leonk.

For those of you who might not know what miaandjohnrule is talking about it is possible to play a new version of Tecmo Super Bowl on your original NES :) For more information on how to get it done check out this thread and scroll down a bit where I posted pictures and info.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46466

and who's the joker who picked the PSX version :hmm: I was just playing it recently and while I was able to get a good running game going the passing just isn't there in this version. I also miss all the cut scenes.

I'd be intersted to here from people who have played the cell phone version. How well does it play?

[kainemaxwell]

Do the SNES/Genesis TSB play as well as the NES one?

[classicb]

Do the SNES/Genesis TSB play as well as the NES one?

They play very well I think. What I'm not a fan of is the new music. You can't zig zag as well but you should still be able to get some huge gains through the air. I think in some ways the gameplay is a little tighter. The dive tackle on Defense has imporved.

Here are the new features for the Genesis/SNES versions:

Touchback
Change your playbook during a game
Weather
3 years for season mode
Change game time (preseason/pro bowl)
Change players in the Pro Bowl
I also like seeing the stats at halftime

If you want to give it a try I have loose Genesis version just PM me and I'll send it to you.

[Dr. Morbis]

Overall, I had to vote for Tecmo Super Bowl. It's solo experience is unmatched as far as sports games go on the NES.

But if were talking nostalgia or a multiplayer exhibition game with a friend, the original Tecmo Bowl would win every time. The play mechanics are simple yet addictive. It's probably the only football game that a non-football fan or non-sports fan could get into.

[classicb]

I'm going out on a limb. Not that I don't like the originals, but create-a-player is just too much fun to ignore in III. I had almost an entire Bears team made up with friends. Same basic gameplay, great stat tracking (I'm the best QB in the league??!!), and a nice graphics engine. What more do you want?

I've been playing III allot lately just to mix it up (Super Bowl on the NES will always be number 1). It really is an amazing football game on the Genesis/SNES. The create a player far excedes any other varitation on the Genesis/SNES. I've played a few other games that let you max out a player right from the start so I like how Tecmo makes you earn your points. The only thing that bothers me about this version is the lack of in game music. It's probably still hands down the best football game on the Genesis/SNES (sorry Madden).

[classicb]

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I'm playing alot of Tecmo Super Bowl on the SNES right now. I like the added 100 yard rusher 150 yard recieving 300 yard passing stats. Great game maybe..... just maybe ..... better than the NES version..... ah nah I just love the NES version too much. Still the SNES version of just Tecmo Super Bowl is fantastic.

[TecmoBowlTerror]

I voted Tecmo Bowl on the NES. I've played my share of Tecmo Super Bowl over the years, but my buddies and I easily prefer the original. I've found that the strategic aspect of the original Tecmo Bowl is phenomenal.

The programmers put in some interesting twists into Tecmo Bowl. There are certain ways to invoke very beneficial pass coverage help from the CPU, but you need to know the correct defender to choose in that scenario to effectively make it a successful scheme. There are also certain defenders that go completely unblocked on run plays. These unaccounted defenders in the run blocking scheme add into the chess match. Furthermore, with a particular defender, and particular play call, you can avoid trouble in the run game, while limiting yards available in the passing game. It's a detailed approach which often times forces your opponent to slowly move the ball down field.

We spent a lot of time studying the defensive reactions against every play of every offense. By doing that, we figured out a defensive scheme/game-plan for every team that you face. Sometimes the effectiveness is better or worse depending on which defensive personnel you have. Further along, we inverted that knowledge and took an approach of doing things like pre-snap reads while on offense. With Denver for example, if I'm in shotgun(Pass 2), I know all the possible defensive reactions that may occur. That allows me to anticipate which receivers will be open immediately, and cross that with which position my opponent is using. Before the snap I'm sizing up passing windows, or what I need to do to draw a defender, so i can throw a ball elsewhere.

Sorry about the long explanations. Tecmo Bowl has a ton of layers that many people have no knowledge of, and that's why it's a great game. I think it's often overlooked by TSB players, who just see 4 plays vs 8, more teams, more bells and whistles etc and think that equates to better for TSB. Not surprised that TB had a decent number of votes compared to TSB.