Jeremy Parish
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NES Works 107: Tecmo Baseball & Tecmo Bowl
🕑 Added 2023-08-16 11:25:13 +0000 UTCConfession time: As an avowed hater of American football, I find anything to do with the sport utterly insufferable. Hell for me is a Super Bowl party where I'm not allowed to slink off to a quiet, hidden corner and read or something. And yet... Tecmo Bowl is pretty fun. Compared to every other football game I've ever had to play for this project—experiences I would compare to having low-grit sandpaper rasped across my gums for an hour—I didn't hate Tecmo Bowl. At the end of my recording session, when I pulled out a narrow victory against an increasingly unsubtle CPU with two yards to spare, it was even kind of... exciting?!
Don't tell anyone, though. They'll make me go to their sports parties this fall. God. Can you even imagine.
As for Tecmo Baseball, well, it has an exhibition mode that allows me to record an all-CPU match, and that makes it another masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned.
Comments
Scott Gawrych
Oh man you totally skipped over the LA, Bo Jackson exploit. He’s way OP and no one can catch him.
Kenneth Cummings
Yeah there is something fun about Tecmo Bowl, or in my case SuperBowl. I am not even into football yet I love watching a friend in the fall stream it and roster romhacks all the time on Sunday.
