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Tecmo Bowl is one of the greatest football video games of all-time.
Starting all the way back to the Nintendo NES, Tecmo Bowl has been my gold standard. It’s not that realistic and the graphics are not, by any means, spectacular, but what it lacks in that department it more than makes up for in playability and statistics. You can track every player for every stat all season and in later versions, even across multiple seasons. And playing it is just fun. Easy controls to learn and a simple playbook. It’s everything I like in a football game.
But it does suffer from some translation issues.
Don’t get me wrong. I love translation issues. It’s easy for Asian folks to go from Austin City Limits to HCG shots Austin in a translation when English isn’t your first language. The entire Internet phenomenon of All Your Base Are Belong To Us came from a poor translation. But that was way back in a period called the ’80s’. That stuff would never happen in 2010. The world is an international community free from translation problems. Right?
Wrong.
I have no screenshot, but if you’re doing the coin toss to start the game in Tecmo Bowl for DS, you call ‘heads’ or you call ‘tales’. Tales? Yes, tales as in Canterbury. Way to go, Tecmo team!
October 25th, 2010 at 10:56 am
Super Tecmo Bowl was awesome because you could run all the way back to your goal line and throw a hail mary every time for them to catch it in the other endzone.
Patrick D. Reply:
October 27th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Also, in one version, you could take KC with Barry Word and Christian Okoye as RBs and beat everyone on the field up and score the touchdown. Awesome.
October 25th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Plus you can play alone or with a partner, just like real life!
(Ps. Boxy is still naked.)
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