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Abstract: Ask any gamer over the age of 30 to list their five favorite football video game franchises, and you are bound to hear Tecmo Bowl more than a few times. The Tecmo Bowl titles were the bastions of sports gaming on the early Nintendo consoles, and much ...
Abstract: Of all the sports video games I’ve played in my life, there isn’t one that I remember more fondly then Tecmo Bowl. I played the game endlessly back in my NES days and frequently came back to it over the years. Despite being simplistic, even for the tim...
Abstract: I think anyone that's around my age will be happy to admit that they played quite a bit of Tecmo Super Bowl when they were a kid, whether they were a football fan or not. It was one of the few sports titles that could appeal to just about anyone out th...
Abstract: After a long hiatus, the old-school football classic is back, but can this new Nintendo DS title live up to the legacy of its predecessors? Find out in our in-depth review of Tecmo Bowl Kickoff. For those of us who are older gamers, the mere name Tecm...
Abstract: Name: Tecmo Bowl: KickoffGenre: Sports-FootballPlatform: DSFor me, there was only one sports game that mattered during the NES days, and that was Tecmo Super Bowl. At the time, it was the only game that combined exciting on-field action, real professi...
Abstract: This time you don’t have to put up with Jim Kelly being QB BILLS. I have to admit I’m an old-school Tecmo Bowl fanboy. One of my fondest memories is an epic seventeen-hour, all-night, full-season Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) marathon that started near the e...
Classic Tecmo Bowl gameplay, Updated soundtrack and effects, Good use of stylus control, Fully customizable teams and players.
Menu system is confusing, CPU offers no competition, No star players, New super abilities seem to happen at random.
This misguided remake proves that you can never go home again. ...
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Published: 2008-11-24, Author: Jon , review by: cnet.com
Abstract: Nostalgia can only take you so far. Such is the case with Tecmo Bowl Kickoff, an attempt to remake the superlative Tecmo Super Bowl on the Nintendo DS. Developer Polygon Magic should be given credit for successfully translating Tecmo Bowls singular st...
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Published: 2008-11-19, Author: Steve , review by: gamespy.com
Just like the classic football sim; simple controls and playbooks; plenty of team-customization features.
Too many cut-scenes that interrupt the action; gameplay is slow and antiquated; stylus just gets in the way.
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