220 · NFL
Based on professional football as played in the National Football League, NFL was the first 8-bit console game to carry the official NFL license. There is no NFLPA license, though, which means the 28 real teams are included, but no player names or faces.
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SHOW NOTES
NFL Longplay
Tecmo Bowl Episode
Intellivision NFL
Show notes
- Lead your team all the way to the Super Bowl
- NES Longplay
- Introductions
- Football is back already! Well no we’re in a bit of an offseason in real life, but let’s check in on those Bills
- Overview
- This is another NES football game, but this time with the NFL license.
- They are bragging about being able to say SUPER BOWL
- They put it in bold on the back of the box that this is the only licensed NFL NES game
- And obviously that’s gonna make it sell well
- AND YET, NO NFLPA
- Gameplay
- The appeal of an NFL game is having NFL teams, but they didn’t make the teams unique instead you choose from 6 potentially balanced types of teams.
- On the one hand, this is great if your team sucked that year, on the other hand it makes it feel more generic than an NFL game
- They do try to customize the 6 team types with handicaps as well
- The offensive playbook
- Seperate from the manual
- A unique way to create a lot of plays and take away the ability to screen loo
- So let’s not breakdown football for everyone again, instead let’s talk about the flow of the game. Football, to me, as a low informed watcher, is mostly a game that is very segmented between plays and playbooks.
- 3 stages - The scoreboard, the playbook, the 40 yard screen
- Speaking of the 40 yard screen what do you think about the then zoom in to the 15 yard screen. It feels empty?
- 3 stages - The scoreboard, the playbook, the 40 yard screen
- The slow mo during the play, effective or glitchy?
- The computer is practice mode. The real battle is with friends
- The appeal of an NFL game is having NFL teams, but they didn’t make the teams unique instead you choose from 6 potentially balanced types of teams.
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- This game was the first since NFL Football - released in 1979 for the Intellivision - to get an official National Football League license.
- EGL
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