Tecmo Super Bowl

Tecmo Super Bowl, is an American football video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super NES consoles that was released in 1991. more...

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Developed by Japanese video game company Tecmo, it was one of the first sports video games with that used the names and attributes of real National Football League teams and players (with the player rosters and attributes based on those of the 1990 NFL season). Although the game is now considered outdated, it was very successful in the final years of the NES and enjoys an extensive cult following.

After the initial success of Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo followed up with the release of Tecmo Super Bowl in 1991. The company was able to obtain the NFL's team license, making it the first game to feature all 28 NFL teams of the day. It became a great success because of its mixture of realism and gameplay. TSB also included the real players of each team, rated realistically, with the exception of Jim Kelly, Randall Cunningham, and Bernie Kosar, who were represented by generic names: QB Bills, QB Eagles, and QB Browns, respectively. This was because those players were not members of the National Football League Players Association union and their likenesses were not allowed to be used. However, the Super NES version had their names, but did not have the names of the Bears' kicker or the Bengals' punter. Each team had 11 players on the field at a time, as in real football. There were separate rosters for Offense and Defense, plus the ability to substitute players on Offense, with the exception of the offensive line.

Another groundbreaking feature was the full-length NFL regular and postseason schedule for 1991 (including the Super Bowl and Pro Bowl games). These are now common ideas, but they had only rarely been seen in a video game at that time, and certainly not at all for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Tecmo Super Bowl retained the arcade-style football gameplay of the original, including the unique ability to break tackles, but it was more refined and deeper than its predecessor. It added new features, such as statistics, more plays, editable playbooks, fumbles, and player injuries. The game's use of detailed cutscenes for important events like touchdowns, halftime shows, injuries, and big plays was also unprecedented at the time.

The game was highly playable, and in 1997, it was named one of the top 100 video games of all time by the video game publications, Electronic Gaming Monthly and IGN.

TSB quirks

Gameplay problems also plagued baseball and hockey games that were released by the company after it went exclusively to Super NES and Sega Genesis video game systems. They did not seem to plague the Tecmo Super Bowl series as much, as it released three more versions on the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis video game systems. The game, however, did have some aspects which are unrealistic or do not conform to actual NFL rules:

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