tecmo bowl: kickoff
Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff Hurry Up Impressions
12:40PM Michael McWhertor | Portable football devoid of the NFL licence may sound like the sports game that has the least likely chance of success, but Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff may just get by with its barebones, retro-styled gameplay and a heaping help of nostalgia. The game sticks close to the formula established in a handful of Tecmo Bowl games release in the late ’80s and early ’90s, offering basic side scrolling gameplay for casual fans of the sport. Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff offers d-pad and stylus control options, naturally, with the latter making for easy (possibly to easy) play-making. You can move your QB around and pass to your receiver with straightforward stylus drags and taps, leaving little to the imagination control-wise. The DS version also adds Super Skills, buffs that give your quarterback, running back and receivers special abilities, adding to the arcade-style bent of Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff. Tecmo’s exhuming of the franchise may not appeal to the Madden set, with its faux teams, old school graphics and limited playbooks, but for lapsed football fans it might be worth checking out. We had fun, maybe you will too. More »
Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff Vids: From Customisation to Touchdown Gameplay
6:00AM Brian Crecente | I am not a fan of football. Not in real life, not really in video games. But Tecmo Bowl, I don’t know, there’s something about the blend of video game nostalgia and bitsy football graphics that makes me want to play the game… even without Bo Jackson. If you’re like me, hit the jump for three more videos showing of bits of gameplay. It looks so, well, so like Tecmo Bowl, but that just makes me want to play it all the more. More »Tecmo Bowl Coming to Wii
12:00AM Brian Crecente | Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff is scheduled to hit the DS this September, but the developers tell us that they’ve also started work on a Wii version of the game, which they hope to get out in 2009. Tecmo also said that they didn’t just pass on Bo Jackson, apparently he nixed the licensing agreement because he was too busy dealing with his other private investments. I love the idea of Tecmo Bowl on DS, not so sure about it coming to the Wii. Bowl seems like a game best suited to tiny graphics this generation around. More »
