I was never the biggest sports fan, at least in terms of actually watching it on TV. The only "sports" I watch are pro wrestling and Battlebots. That being said, sports tend to make for good games!

I think Tecmo Bowl is a pretty good attempt at bringing handegg to video games on an 8-bit console with only two real buttons. Only four plays is kinda hilarious though, aren't playbooks like ginormously huge irl? Imagine if the NFL teams of today only had four plays, the Patriots wouldn't even need to cheat to figure out their opposition.

Unfortunately I only have the CPU to play against, who's pretty easy to bamboozle it feels like out of the 20 minutes I played or maybe I accidentally picked the team with Bo Jackson on it who's apparently some kind of god among men. I would totally enjoy playing this with someone human though! I enjoy the Ninja Gaiden-esque little cutscenes when you score a TD or when the refs measure to see if you got a first down, little things like that add so much.

Good game, just not quite as much nostalgia attached to it due to my dad being the one playing this on the NES back then. I can see why he loved it enough to deny me playing RC Pro-am or Duck Hunt.