Tecmo Bowl season 3.

[Omaha Cy]

For any Tecmo Bowl enthusiasts here on the board.

A buddy of mine is in town 3 days a week for some courses at ICCC for his job. Thats helped kick-start are current season again.
To get folks caught up at whats happeneing....

We're just past the halfway point in the current season(7 weeks down/5 to go)
The home team has won 62% of thier games. Pretty standard in TB from the hundreds and hundreds of games we have chronicled on spreadsheets. We conduct a draft each season, then randomly set up the divisions and conferences. This season was fairly odd as all the powerhouse teams(NYG/CHI/SF/DEN/CLE) made thier way into one conference and the bottom half teams ended up together.

Note: This is about the Original Tecmo Bowl game from 1989.

Current Standings

Week 8 games.
CHI(3-4) @ MIA(5-2)
NYG(4-3) @ IND(5-2)
DEN(5-2) @ MIN(0-7)
WSH(4-3) @ SEA(2-5)
(MNF)LA(5-2) @ SF(4-3)

Tecmo Bowl playoff history
Tecmo Bowl I:

SEA over DAL 24-3 in season 1. That playoff saw multiple upsets. CHI lost to underdog MIN. SF who had previously owned LA got beat on a last second FG. LA then went on to get upset by DAL in the conference championship game.

SEA on the other hand had a magical season like no other. With CHI already eliminated, they cruised by CLE in the conference championship game en route to putting away DAL in the Tecmo Bowl. Interesting enough neither SEA or DAL had to do much dirty work during the playoffs thanks to some huge upsets.


Tecmo Bowl II:

Season 2 saw MIA beat CHI 12-10 in the Tecmo Bowl. Those playoffs saw LA again pull off a huge upset this time over NYG, but fell handily to MIA's passing attack in the conference championship game. CHI on the other hand throttled CLE(42-3) and SF(31-0) easily reaching the Tecmo Bowl. MIA came out aggressive in the game converting its share of risky 4th downs, while not scoring a lot of points they controlled the ball for a good amount of time and engineered a late drive for the winning fg as time expired.

We finished another week last night. I'l have to get that all put together and chronicled for a post later today.

 

[keepngoal]

I mean this will all due respect, honestly I do.

you're a geek.

I easily fit that mold in some of the things I do... so please don't take it personally.

-keep.

 

[CYdTracked]

That playbook looks a lot like the one Herm Edwards uses...

 

[CycloneSteel]

So you're not playing the games -are you doing this on an emulator/rom to change the divisions?

There is a new Tecmo Bowl coming in '08 supposedly -they haven't announced which platform yet. I hope they go old school with it though -the last decent one was Tecmo Super Bowl for the SNES -I didn't like any of them after that...

 

[clones26]

stupid Vikings even suck on Tecmo, damn you Wade Wilson

 

[Omaha Cy]

I mean this will all due respect, honestly I do.
you're a geek.
I easily fit that mold in some of the things I do... so please don't take it personally.

-keep.

:biglaugh: We take Tecmo Bowl pretty seriously around here. Not that you would be able to tell by our DVD's of the playoff games, or spreadsheets with the results and game notes from hundreds and hundreds of battles.

So you're not playing the games -are you doing this on an emulator/rom to change the divisions?

There is a new Tecmo Bowl coming in '08 supposedly -they haven't announced which platform yet. I hope they go old school with it though -the last decent one was Tecmo Super Bowl for the SNES -I didn't like any of them after that...

No, you got the versions wrong....This is from the original with only 12 teams. We randomly set it all up and go from there. Playing on a honest to goodnes grey NES.

Currently there is a huge community online that edits Tecmo Super Bowl(the 2nd version from 1991). They are already working on an 08version with current teams/players. They do that every season for that matter. As for the actual Tecmo corporation, they keep teasing the general public with talk, but nothing seems to ever happen.

 

[bmuff]

I thought that the original Tecmo didn't have all the teams? Wasn't that Super Tecmo Bowl? The original had what? Chicago, NYG, SF, Miami, Washington, Dallas, Cleveland, MN, Denver, LA Raiders, maybe Houston and Philly? The orignal had only four plays to choose from while Super Tecmo Bowl had eight.

All I know is that I rarely saw anyone play a team other than Chicago, NYG, SF or LA.

 

[HOTDON]

I read that with Testiverde hanging it up again last week, Morten Anderson is the last remaining player from the Tecmo Bowl roster in the league. That makes me feel old.

A year or so ago when I was in the computer labs around the clock in Black I used to jump on to everyvideogame.com and play a quick game of TSB to clear my head. That website is money.

To elaborate more on the people that hack the ROMs, there are current rosters available and several college versions where the team names, logos and rosters were altered to the top 30ish college teams. I thought I remembered one based off the '01 or '02 season (when we were good) that had ISU and Iowa.

 

[EggMcClone]

I grew up on Tecmo Super Bowl and still play it on my emulator sometimes. I played some Tecmo Bowl but never owned the actual game myself.

I'm pretty impressed with your setup.

 

[4VR4CY]

We own Super Techmo Bowl for our Nintendo.

 

[CycloneSteel]

I haven't played the original in awhile so I forgot you could reset all the divisions!

My oldest son won the Tecmo Super Bowl on the '91 version when he was 6 (turned 7 the next day) with the 49ers -which is all the proof you need that they are unfair to play with.

I still think it's one of the purest tests of a gamer's skills to this day --mano y mano -who can mash the buttons faster and throw the other man.

How 'bout a tailgate tournament at a football game next fall?

 

[cyco2000]

We have a Tecmo tourney one game per season. We go by random teams (close eyes and choose), and no 49ers or Giants. Gets pretty intense!

 

[Omaha Cy]

Week 8 is in the books.

CHI @ MIA. Tough defensive battle. Singletary gets a key extra point block early, and CHI leads 10-9 late. A defensive stop by MIA sets them up to get the ball back late, but on the punt CHI's O-line block great and the punter is able to hold the ball for at least 6-8 seconds(huge in tecmo) if not longer before getting the punt off. It was huge as MIA was unable to get close enough for a FG attempt. CHI sneaks by 10-9.

NYG @ IND. One of the most rediculous games we've ever played. Scoreless for 4 qtrs as the offenses can barely move the ball. Stark and Landeta provide the excitement by exchanging 70+ yard punts all game. In OT after a couple punts IND finally gets a drive together and crawls in for the win, 7-0. Brutal game from start to finish. IND was down inside the 10 earlier in the game but Trudeau threw an INT in the endzone.

DEN @ MIN. Another defensive slug fest that see's DEN get an early FG. MIN is unable to move the ball all game, and DEN finally adds on another score to take it 10-0. Decent ground game for Dorset in the 2nd half.

WSH @ SEA. early in the game SEA line sup for a long FG, which gets blocked. WSH who is previously undefeated when they can score, gets FG soon after for a 3-0 lead. WSH adds on another FG and a 6-0 lead. Early in the 4th SEA drives inside the 10 but on 4th down gets playpicked killing the drive. WSH burns some clock, punts, and the defense does the rest. 6-0. WSH is now 5-0 when the offense scores.

LA @ SF. SF is forced to punt on its opening drive. That would be the last time they punt in the game. Pete Kugler(bottom DE) plays the game of his life thwarting Bo Jackson on a pair of 4th downs runs and gets an INT en route to an absolute 42-0 shellacking of LA. Montana sliced the LA defense all game, and Ronnie Lott added another INT. SF looking for more points late was stopped at about the 2 yardline as time expired. The record for most points by 1 team in the modern era of Tecmo Bowl was by DEN beating LA 45-3 a few years back. 42 points ties the record for largest margin in a win.

DAL @ CLE. A tough defensive battle that saw CLE get 2 huge kick returns by McNeil. Lavette answered with one as well, leading to the only points DAL would score. CLE leading 10-7 midway in the 4th converted some key 3rd downs en route to nailing a FG at the gun to take the game 13-7.

The playoff picture got a jolt this week.

-CHI won a huge game over MIA to finally get to .500. MIA with the division all but wrapped up lost a step in the conference race.
-NYG lost a very crucial game and dropped to 1-3 on the road(player 2).
-meanwhile IND has gotten into the driver seat with the NFC's best record.
-DEN is staying a step ahead of the AFC with a conference best 6-2 record. MIN remains winless at 0-8.
-WSH took a completely surprising division lead with the win. SEA continues to teeter on playoff elimination.
-SF stayed on course at trying to get a home playoff game with the win.
-LA has dropped 2 straight games by a combined score of 73-3 and appear to be in a free fall. However they are still just 1 game out of the conference lead and face IND in week 10.
-CLE remained alive with some slim playoff hopes and has a couple very winnable games down the stretch. DAL blew a great opportunity for playoff positioning with this loss.

Standings thru 8 weeks.