CGQuarterly Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Welcome to round 2 of the 10th season of the Atari Age NES High Score League! I'm going back to 2-week rounds this season. In celebration of the conference championship games this weekend, the Pro Bowl next weekend, and of course the mother of all football games the following weekend, we are going to play Tecmo Super Bowl. This round ends on Monday, February 4, the day after the Super Bowl. Title: Tecmo Super Bowl Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Released: December 1991 (US) http://youtu.be/Y0occ0FRZZE Rules: The objective for this round is to score as many points of offense as possible, while giving up the least number of points of defense. Your final score will therefore be calculated by taking the number of points that you scored and subtracting the number of points that the opponent scored. Select "Preseason" as your game mode. You can of course choose any two teams that you wish. Scores so far: WispFollower 88 classicgamer_27330 72 cparsley 63 Chuck D. Head 55 asponge 53 roadrunner 49 Liduario 32 jblenkle 11 darthkur 6 Current standings: WispFollower 9 Skosh 6 cparsley 3 Jibbajaba 1 asponge 1 roadrunner 1 classicgamer_27330 1 darthkur 1 asponge 1 jblenkle 1 Liduario 1 Edited February 3, 2013 by Jibbajaba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Interesting. I think I know football rules but I'm not sure... I only watched a few games many years ago... In football can the attacking team keep going until it loses the ball, make the touch down or try the kick? Is there a number of tries if you're not advancing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Link to the rules http://en.wikipedia...._football_rules quick answer, you got 4 downs to try to get a first down. usually if you don't make a first down with the first 3 plays you will punt the ball to the other team. if it's 4th and long and your close enough to try a field goal, kick a field goal. a field goal is worth 3 points Edited January 19, 2013 by roadrunner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 You have 4 tries (called "downs") to advance the ball 10 yards to the next first down marker. Every time you advance the ball, you start the next down at that spot. So on first down you have to go 10 yards. If you make 6 of them, then on second down you have 4 more yards to go. And so it goes. If you fail on the 4th down, the other team gets the ball at that exact spot. So on 4th down, you basically have three choices. You can "punt" the ball, where you kick it to the other team thus starting them off farther down the field (unless they can run the ball back successfully), if you're close enough you can try to kick a "field goal" which is worth three points, or you can "go for it", meaning that you are going to try and get to the first down marker (which you choose if you are already very close to it and feel that it is worth the risk, or are in a desperate situation where you have to get a first-down to stay in the game). Chris 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I'll kick off I won 33-7 i missed 2 extra points. I started a game as the Broncos against the Browns but Elway throw 3 picks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I deferred to the 2nd half... 63-7 score, making my score 56. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WispFollower Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 How do you call a time out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 by the way, you can't go for 2, that rule hadn't been in the NFL when this game was out 56-13 I'll post the screenshot later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+asponge Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 40-0 Missed two extra points. Pffft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 58-10 I won by 48 points. Matt Millen had a safety, and Colts got lucky with that field goal. It hit the upright and still went in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 How do you call a time out? I think it's the B button, it brings up the options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 um yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 (edited) WOW 72 points! nice I see most of us are playing as San Fran. Edited January 22, 2013 by roadrunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+asponge Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Yeah that's pretty crazy. Nice score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 WOW 72 points! nice I see most of us are playing as San Fran. 72 points is crazy awesome. Funny, I was born and raised a 49er fan, so I didn't even notice that. I always play as them in any football game. It only looks weird to me when someone doesn't play as the Niners. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I intercepted twice and recovered a fumble both near their 20 yard line, got a safety, added up nicely I have a 70-10 game , but that is trying onside kicks even up 56-3, I made one, the rest I missed and set up their 10 points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I had a good game going, i was returning a punt i tried to run out of bounds so i don't get hit and fumble and guess what happened...... i got hit and fumbled, The Colts recovered it and took it back for a TD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Tecmo Super Bowl - W, 14-3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I have a XFL hack of this game. I miss the XFL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcZZw7LJs0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 1 point better i won 49-0 Maybe we can get a bonus point for shutting out the computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+asponge Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 56-3 Lots of passing yards. I love the quarterback's name: Q. Bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Tecmo loved using that naming mechanism (they do thru Tecmo Super Bowl 3 (SNES/Genesis) for any player position not named at time of game creation as Letter of position. Team with either the stats of what most likely would be the player or a generic statistic for the player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+asponge Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Out of curiosity I looked up the Q. Bills name and supposedly Tecmo didn't have rights to use the quarterback's "likeness". There were apparently several other players like this as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicgamer_27330 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I've tried to get over 72-0 by doing onside kicks, but to no avail and I did get close to 77, but I gave up 10 as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cparsley Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Upped my total to 63 point (spread wise) Final Score 77-14 (and would of been more but have a VERY VERY terrible 3rd Quarter that bled into the first minute of the 4th Quarter (hence the only 1 TD for me in the 3rd, and 14 pts for the opponent at that point.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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