ARE YOU READY FOR AN EXPERIENCE TANGENTIALLY RELATED TO THE GAME OF FOOTBALL! This was one of those games that obviously now we look at and go “oh there isn’t much to this” but people went completely wild for the arcade version and a little less wild but still relatively wild for the home console version during the 78 handegg season.
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.
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.