Tecmo simultaneously shocked and delighted old school sports gamers with the June announcement of Tecmo NBA Unrivaled. Even before the first wave of screenshots appeared, gamers were pondering the style of play that the new game would adopt. Would it be like the godly Tecmo Super NBA? Completely insane like NBA Jam? We baby birds [...]

I would’ve been tarred-and-feathered, hung from a tree, thrown off a bridge, and run over by a Mac truck by the rabid Tecmo Bowl fanboys had I not mentioned Lawrence Taylor. I know better than to gamble with my life. Although LT’s alter ego is an excellent play-stopper in the Blitz: The League and Blitz: [...]

It’s Dreamcast week around these parts, but that doesn’t mean that non-DC news will get the shaft. Case in point: Tecmo NBA Unrivaled. We covered the initial game announcement that came out of this year’s E3, and it remains one of the titles that you guys are most curious about – – we’ve been receiving [...]

Tecmo may have permanently cemented itself into the hearts of sports gamers with Tecmo Bowl/Tecmo Super Bowl (NES), but the company also dabbled into a rather lively, arcade-style game of hoops with Tecmo NBA Basketball (NES) and Tecmo Super NBA (Genesis/SNES). Besides the out-of-control rips, there wasn’t much in the way of defense, which made [...]