Rumor: 'Tecmo Bowl Throwback' Coming to XBLA, PSN (Joystiq)

[TheWatcher]

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I bought my copy at "Funcoland" (remember that place?!). It was super cheap... I figured out why pretty quick.

You know, I'd never been to Funcoland before. But for some reason even though I never signed up for it (or any magazine), I used to get their magazine (the original Game Informer) through the mail up until 1999, lol. That's where I saw the first editorial on NFL 2K with screenshots and went crazy.

It'd be SO easy for Tecmo just to plop out one of those older TSB games (ANY of them) with added online play and have a massive success. Hopefully they catch that drift.

Just as long as they don't do this again, we should be good:

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[jyoung]

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Yep, I remember renting that game at Blockbuster and taking it home expecting something like the old TSB games.

Instead, it sucked so much I ended up taking it back the next day.

[HesTheCoach]

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I've never seen the PSX TSB in motion before (I honestly didn't even think it looked like that, I thought it had a different viewpoint). Very surprised at how good it looks in motion. Graphics are good too. Field is wider than TSB III, which is good.

About 95% of the things I've heard about that game have been downright horrible so I have to assume the gameplay is bad. Real bad.

It actually reminds me a lot of TSB III from looking at that video, which I definitely didn't expect.

[CreatineKasey]

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I actually put some decent hours into the PSX game... but nothing close to the older iterations... especially TSB III

[reo]

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I've never seen the PSX TSB in motion before (I honestly didn't even think it looked like that, I thought it had a different viewpoint). Very surprised at how good it looks in motion. Graphics are good too. Field is wider than TSB III, which is good.

About 95% of the things I've heard about that game have been downright horrible so I have to assume the gameplay is bad. Real bad.

It actually reminds me a lot of TSB III from looking at that video, which I definitely didn't expect.

I liked the PSX Tecmo. I liked TSB III too. I honestly can't see how someone can play a game for only 5 minutes and feel like they've played the game inside and out. To each their own though. Play it yourself. See if you like it.

[TheWatcher]

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^^^ Sometimes a person plays a game and they just can't stand it. You wanna give it more of a chance, but you just can't stomach it. I gave it more than 5 minutes. I tried to play 3 games, but... it just wasn't right to me. I absolutely hated the lag, too. It was ridiculous.

It wasn't the worst football game I ever played (that's a tie between NFL Football for NES and Madden 08), but it was certainly the worst Tecmo Bowl I ever played.

[rm217]

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^^^ Sometimes a person plays a game and they just can't stand it. You wanna give it more of a chance, but you just can't stomach it. I gave it more than 5 minutes. I tried to play 3 games, but... it just wasn't right to me. I absolutely hated the lag, too. It was ridiculous.

It wasn't the worst football game I ever played (that's a tie between NFL Football for NES and Madden 08), but it was certainly the worst Tecmo Bowl I ever played.

I agree with everything you said.

[NinerFan1983]

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LOL @ NFL Football (NES) mention..

I still remember that game, because that had to be one of the slowest moving games I have ever played.

I think the best part of the game might have been the menu music, that's about it.

[HesTheCoach]

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^^^ Sometimes a person plays a game and they just can't stand it. You wanna give it more of a chance, but you just can't stomach it. I gave it more than 5 minutes. I tried to play 3 games, but... it just wasn't right to me. I absolutely hated the lag, too. It was ridiculous.

It wasn't the worst football game I ever played (that's a tie between NFL Football for NES and Madden 08), but it was certainly the worst Tecmo Bowl I ever played.

That's pretty much the general consensus on the game. I was just surprised at how good it looked. It was cool to see how the game panned closer to the field on kickoffs and then zoomed back out.

[ODogg]

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Tecmo on the PSX was awful. I just got a Wii on Saturday and downloaded the original Tecmo Bowl Arcade version and it's a blast. I like it when the players are more rounded and cartoony looking, not all flat and spaced out like on the PSX version. I actually would love to buy an arcade console of Tecmo Bowl if I ever found one.

I'm really hoping and praying that this Tecmo Throwback is like the arcade game in graphics, but with real teams, real NFL players (even if they are the old players that's fine) and they just upped the field and player detail into HD.

[reo]

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^^^ Sometimes a person plays a game and they just can't stand it. You wanna give it more of a chance, but you just can't stomach it. I gave it more than 5 minutes. I tried to play 3 games, but... it just wasn't right to me. I absolutely hated the lag, too. It was ridiculous.

It wasn't the worst football game I ever played (that's a tie between NFL Football for NES and Madden 08), but it was certainly the worst Tecmo Bowl I ever played.

That's pretty much the general consensus on the game. I was just surprised at how good it looked. It was cool to see how the game panned closer to the field on kickoffs and then zoomed back out.

Tecmo on the PSX was awful. I just got a Wii on Saturday and downloaded the original Tecmo Bowl Arcade version and it's a blast. I like it when the players are more rounded and cartoony looking, not all flat and spaced out like on the PSX version. I actually would love to buy an arcade console of Tecmo Bowl if I ever found one.

I'm really hoping and praying that this Tecmo Throwback is like the arcade game in graphics, but with real teams, real NFL players (even if they are the old players that's fine) and they just upped the field and player detail into HD.

That's fine. I still can't understand it though. It was Tecmo Football on the PSX. It was the same game. I don't understand how people feel it played so different. It only looked different. Weird . . .

Also, anyone rather play NES Play Action Football > Tecmo? Please excuse the hijack.

This game . . .

[CreatineKasey]

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I played playaction football. I think Tecmo still owned it, though. That game has such a great strategical balance that I will not expound upon right now.

I WANT TECMO THROWBACK!!!! Online Tecmo leagues on XBLA and PSN would be a riot.

[jyoung]

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Back when SNES games cost $2 for a 5-day rental, I played just about every SNES football game I could find:

Troy Aikman Football
Emmitt Smith Football
NFL Football (Konami)
Super Play Action Football
Super High Impact
Quarterback Club
Pro Quarterback (Tradewest)

et al.

Tecmo Super Bowl III was the best one of the system by a mile.

I would actually give my second-place vote to Quarterback Club.

Loved those QB-specific playbooks as well as the great QB Challenge minigames.

[TimmeH]

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I played the hell out of Playaction Football as a kid. I almost always ran with the Niners. It moves so slow, yet was so addicting. I remember yelling "HIZZOWN!" for every first down because that's what it sounded like the ref would yell lol.

I also loved QB Challenge on Genesis. Although I think I liked the mini-games more than the actual game.

[CreatineKasey]

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I remember creating players and leveling them in TSB 3!

That game was pretty deep if I remember correctly. They had some new player interactions, namely the finesse HB spins and the power HB player drags that I really liked.

All this Tecmo talk is eating me up inside. I want to play you guys online in Tecmo ASAP!