The new NFL season is upon us and Madden NFL 12 is on store shelves. But Madden isn’t the only football franchise to win gamers’ hearts (and dollars). As such, we’ve put together this X-List to celebrate the best football games ever made. In order to make the cut, the games had to satisfy two criteria: They had to be based on American football (not that other sport), and had more than one series entry (no one-hit wonders).
So…are you ready for some football?
Although it doesn’t have the hall of fame players (at least by name) the classic, simplistic gameplay packs enough lighthearted punch that will keep fans playing for hours on end.
If you follow my game-related ramblings on Twitter, you know that I recently spotted a Tecmo Bowl Throwback plug on one of ESPN‘s late afternoon/early evening sports programs. As a long time fan of the franchise, I was admittedly geeked; not just for the exposure that the legendary series has garnered, but also for the [...]
Ol’ school sports gamers, Joystiq has the potentially awesome scoop. Our bloggy brethren have obtained knowledge from a reliable source that the greatest football game series of all time is returning in the form of Tecmo Bowl Throwback, which will be HD remake of Tecmo Super Bowl. Full team customization, a retro 8-bit mode, and [...]
Let’s get it out of the way right now without any setup: QB Eagles is the single greatest sports video game athletes of all time. Unquestionably, there are some who will question the very validity of this final post in the series as this regulates the twin faces of outstanding sports video game athletes, Bo [...]
Despite the unusually high amount of coverage that we gave to games that were either outright retro or strove to take on retro qualities this week, 2D-X is most assuredly not a retrogaming site. I prefer leaving the hyper-detailed historical accounts to those that have the knowledge and hours to pour into the topic. I [...]
Unstoppable. That’s the only word that can even remotely come close to describing “Tecmo Bo”, a sports video game athlete so dominant, so simultaneously loved and feared by 8-bit pigskinners worldwide, that his name has become forever entangled with the game – - both on the digital gridiron and in real life. Sports commentators often [...]
What is it about great running backs who end their careers prematurely that makes us fans worship them as gods who’ve walked the earth only to return to the heavens from whence they’d came? Players such as Jim Brown (who dropped out of NHL High to take up the noble causes of social activism, bad [...]
I recognize that it’s more than a little bizarre to dissect Christian Okoye’s nearly flawless running game in Tecmo Super Bowl by comparing him to a comic book character, but I do so only to illustrate the amount of awesome that radiated from the character. I got into the four-color funnies during my pre-teen years [...]
