BruiserBrody
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No poll this time as Tecmo Bowl (mark 2) would win hands down but let's talk about some old Atari, Arcade, NES, SNES, Genesis, etc Football games.
My personal favorites are Tecmo Super Bowl 3 for the SNES due to it being on my favorite system, and coming out when I was a hardcore gamer. TSB 3 is possibly the first game to introduce an off season/free agency mode to games. It is flawed in that every player is given a points value, but teams do not have a set amount of points so good teams will always be good and bad teams have little room to improve. (For example Steve Young is the top player in the game with 520 points. Arizona has Dave Krieg starting at like a 60 or 80, so if you cut him you still have little capital to "sign" other talent.)
Super Play Action Football is my wild card selection as we spent many hours playing it. They had no licenses but IIRC you could pick NFL cities (with the proper players) as well as college and high school teams. From what I recall, the game play was functional enough that we came back for more.
The official NFL game for the NES was shit from what I remember. I did not play the off shoots like Joe Montana's Football, Bill Walsh's, Troy Aikman's blah blah blah enough to have a lasting impression. I do have favorable memories of a MNF game on the SNES though I did not own it.
Madden 93 helped make me a fan of Da Bears 1985 squad as my Bears fan cousin played as their historic team a ton of the time. Plus Walter Payton showed up on WWF TV around the time I acquired the game. A funny thing about Madden 93 is Madden has text comments about every team before the game. He calls an unnamed Joe Montana the greatest QB ever, while another text block says something like "Anyone who says who the best ever players are is lying". I'd have to bust it out again to get the actual dialogue.
NFL QB Club 96 had not only the QB club challenges to play, but also great game scenarios where you took over in the middle of historic games and had to re-write or recreate history. (Downside is it was with the 1995 rosters regardless).
My personal favorites are Tecmo Super Bowl 3 for the SNES due to it being on my favorite system, and coming out when I was a hardcore gamer. TSB 3 is possibly the first game to introduce an off season/free agency mode to games. It is flawed in that every player is given a points value, but teams do not have a set amount of points so good teams will always be good and bad teams have little room to improve. (For example Steve Young is the top player in the game with 520 points. Arizona has Dave Krieg starting at like a 60 or 80, so if you cut him you still have little capital to "sign" other talent.)
Super Play Action Football is my wild card selection as we spent many hours playing it. They had no licenses but IIRC you could pick NFL cities (with the proper players) as well as college and high school teams. From what I recall, the game play was functional enough that we came back for more.
The official NFL game for the NES was shit from what I remember. I did not play the off shoots like Joe Montana's Football, Bill Walsh's, Troy Aikman's blah blah blah enough to have a lasting impression. I do have favorable memories of a MNF game on the SNES though I did not own it.
Madden 93 helped make me a fan of Da Bears 1985 squad as my Bears fan cousin played as their historic team a ton of the time. Plus Walter Payton showed up on WWF TV around the time I acquired the game. A funny thing about Madden 93 is Madden has text comments about every team before the game. He calls an unnamed Joe Montana the greatest QB ever, while another text block says something like "Anyone who says who the best ever players are is lying". I'd have to bust it out again to get the actual dialogue.
NFL QB Club 96 had not only the QB club challenges to play, but also great game scenarios where you took over in the middle of historic games and had to re-write or recreate history. (Downside is it was with the 1995 rosters regardless).
