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Bad Player, Good Team: Darryl Pollard
Cornerback Darryl Pollard may be the unluckiest player in all of Tecmo Super Bowl.His San Francisco squad is one without weakness. QB2 Steve Young is better most teams’ QB1. Roger Craig is a monster...
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Happy BoDay!
Today is November 30th, the most splendid day of the year: Vincent Edward “Bo” Jackson’s birthday. If you’re anything like me, your spouse has been asking why they’re getting “BoDay” iCal notifications...
View ArticlePenn State Stops Wisconsin For The Big Ten Championship… According to Tecmo!
Penn State’s Big Ten title could break the College Football Playoff as we know it because of this play. Wisconsin’s Corey Clement gets stuffed on a critical Fourth & 1 that seals the game for Penn...
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(Tecmo) Kickers are People, Too!
Tecmo Super Bowl kickers are like a car’s thermostat: you only notice when they don’t work. (Quick side note, anyone know how to fix a car’s thermostat? Asking for a friend.) Also like auto parts gone...
View ArticleTecmo Bowl Tyreek To The House
As SB Nation said, Tyreek Hill’s TD recreated on Tecmo Bowl set to Mitch Holthus’s call is why the Internet was invented....
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25 Years of Tecmo Super Bowl
25 years ago today, Tecmo Super Bowl hit American stores. Video games would never be the same. It’s no understatement to say TSB is one of the most influential video games of all time. Tecmo Super Bowl...
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The 8 Buffalos Glitch
Multiverse theory suggests that all possibilities exist in infinite parallel universes. In some glitch of an alternate Earth, Super Bowl XXV saw the Buffalo Bills’ Scott Norwood miss a field goal as...
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Beyond the Stats: Ron Solt
I think Batman once said, “You either retire a Tecmo Legend, or play long enough to become Steve Grogan.” Something like that. I may be misquoting slightly. The point is, not every NFLer became Bo...
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Beyond the Stats: Jim McMahon
Who is Philadelphia’s worst starter? Easy: Ron Solt[1]. Ron Solt is terrible. Ron Solt wins the booby prize as Tecmo Super Bowl’s worst offensive lineman. Only two stats count for TSB’s big ‘n’ uglies:...
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Donald Trump’s Tecmo Bowl
You wouldn’t think President Trump has much to do with Tecmo Bowl. You’d be wrong. Bigly. Without Donald J. Trump, Tecmo Super Bowl would be vastly different. We wouldn’t have TSB’s superpowered Bills....
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Tampa’s Tecmo All-Stars
Tecmo Tampa is bad. Thanks for the update, captain obvious. Did you know, though, Tampa had every opportunity to be the defining team of the 1980s and 90s? What if the TSB Buccos boasted Bo Jackson?...
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John Alt: Tecmo’s Strongest Man
Tecmo fans are familiar with The Nigerian Nightmare. What about the German Tank[1]? Give Christian Okoye a few pixels of open field and it’s a quick trip to popcorn city. But even Okoye can’t make...
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Is Bo Jackson the NES’s Only Black Hero?
Nintendo’s Limited Palette The NES has a very limited color palette. From Super Mario Bros. to Wario’s Woods, NES games use only 64 colors. 10 of those colors are pure black. Four more are...
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Kyle Nelson: Tecmo’s Leading Rusher
Kyle Nelson, aka thegamer1185, is a childhood rumor finally come to life. Everybody’s childhood best friend boasted of rushing Bo Jackson to a billion yards in Tecmo Super Bowl. You knew the kid: their...
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Tecmo’s First Gridiron Fight
Before Tecmo’s Bowl, Tehkan had a Gridiron Fight. The golden age of arcade gaming followed a simple pattern: smash and repeat; smash and repeat. Space Invaders, the first arcade blockbuster, saw a slew...
View ArticleTecmo’s Supplemental Draft
The Supplemental Draft shaped Tecmo as we know it. When we think of how our favorite players ended up in Tecmo Super Bowl, we think of the regular NFL Draft. We see bright-eyed college kids mounting...
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Tecmo Legend: Drew Hill
Given the power to build a perfect Wide Receiver, few would make Drew Hill. WRs are meant to be towering, spidery men, all arms and legs, with an eagle’s wingspan and the ability to fly over defenders....
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John Kemeny and Tecmo’s BASIC FTBALL Granddaddy
We can trace a straight line from Atari’s Football (1978) and Irem/Taito’s 10-Yard Fight (1983) to Tecmo Bowl. We also know TB and TSB informed John Madden Football and NFL Blitz. All these games, from...
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Naughty Tecmo and Lovely Cards
Almost as soon as there were video games, there were worries about inappropriate content in video games. Before Mortal Kombat’s blood drenched fighting sparked Congressional hearings[1], there was...
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