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You can keep your Madden NFL ‘06. When it comes to football videogaming, make mine Tecmo Super Bowl.
Why? Aside from its basic oldschool design and several ahead-of-its-time gameplay innovations, it managed to defy the laws of physics (i.e., the shortest distance between two points):
running in a straight line is the slowest way to the endzone. instead, zigzag as much as possible. watch with sheer enjoyment as defenders practice eating dirt after each unsuccessful dive.
Actually, I may have to devote a post to all the logic-defying trick moves that were found in the sports videogames of the late ’80s and early ’90s. I know that EA’s NHL Hockey contained a bunch of them, including surefire top-shelf goals from impossible angles, that quickly devolved games into beat-the-clock scoreathons.
Nothing like a good tecmo tournament in Blakely until 2 in the morning when I was supposed to be studying.
Comment by Hunk Oman — 09/02/2005 @ 10:29 AM
Until 2AM? That’s nothing. I seem to recall you, me and Bear pulling an all-nighter, trying to solve some goofy medieval fighting/adventure game on the old NES. Probably the only time in my college career where I came out of a night thoroughly dazed, yet sober.
Comment by CT — 09/02/2005 @ 10:44 AM
that is the best article you have ever linked to
Comment by tim — 09/02/2005 @ 3:00 PM
What, you mean the quality of my stuff here is dependent upon my outer linkage? I should just give up crafty all this witty shizznit…
Comment by CT — 09/02/2005 @ 6:54 PM