Football is a football game for two players. The game is played from a top down point of view of the field and features two skill levels and three game variations. Using the joystick you can choose from one of five different offensive or defensive plays. In the first game variation, after selecting a play you then control the players on the field. In the second game, you have the option of controlling your players after a play is selected or allowing the computer to control the players. The third game has the computer controlling the players at all times and you only need to select the plays you wish it to execute and indicate when you wish to punt or pass the ball. In all of the game variations the timer begins at 5 minutes, and is active only during plays. Of course, the team with the most points when the timer runs out wins!
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1/10
Smashes cartridge into slot so hard it shakes the entire fucking planet
One of the things I am going to try to do with this is equally balance contemporary opinions and modern opinions so you end up seeing Pitfall keep its place on my inevitable Top 10000 Or Whatever Games list even after games are modernized, but even with that said this is a rough one. The limitations of the console make a playable game of football near impossible, with sprite limits meaning your players, all three of them, flicker endlessly as they move across the field which just is not pleasant to look at, and while there are sort of rudimentary plays you can choose from which seems ahead of its time, those plays are all mostly the same as soon as the square gets hiked. The rules of football are barely followed but you can punt so thats something. Pat McAfee would be happy at least.