Evolution of Retro American Football Games

[TrekMD]

Good choices there!  Which one of these do you prefer, Laird?

[TL]

Good choices there!  Which one of these do you prefer, Laird?

I personally hate both games, there are very few Lynx games that suck but both of these do!

[TrekMD]

Good choices there!  Which one of these do you prefer, Laird?

I personally hate both games, there are very few Lynx games that suck but both of these do!

LOL  I find Tournament Cyberall curious because the players are robots.  Other than that, it doesn't amuse much but I prefer it only for that reason. 

[Mire Mare]

I also find Cyberball interesting because of the robots/sci-fi element.  I've tried to really get into, most recently on the Midway Arcade Origins - Tournament Cycberball 2072, but after a couple of goes my interest begins to quickly wane.  A shame because the idea is great.

Here's another historic American Football game from the C64.

4th & Inches - I loved this when I was a kid.

4th & Inches

I had this too

A pretty simplistic, but nevertheless fun, game.  I had that BugByte release only I stuck a large, round, metallic silver and green NY Jets sticker on the front of the cassette inlay.

[Mire Mare]

And I also discovered these whilst looking for 4th & Inches.  I've never played them so can't comment first hand. 

First, ABC Monday Night Football.  It looks a fairly comprehensive interpretation of American Football given that it's on an 8 bit machine.  The YT host rates the gameplay of this over John Madden.
ABC Monday Night Football on C=64
It was released in '89 which is late in the C64's life.  The machines popularity was certainly on the slide here in the UK due to the arrival of the 16 bit computers.  I've not managed to find any evidence that this saw a UK release on the C64.  Versions were also released for the SNES, PC & Amiga.

Here's the SNES version complete with unintentionally humorous digitised crowd booing!
ABC Monday Night Football - SNES

EA's John Madden games also got in on the C64 scene, unbeknownst to me!  I couldn't find a vid so a large and scary picture of the big man himself will suffice.

[TrekMD]

Hey, thanks for posting these C64 football games.  Had never heard of them.  I wonder how much they paid ABC to get the rights to use their name!

[TL]

That Madden picture is scary!!!! 

ABC Football looks pretty impressive I have to say.

[Mire Mare]

Hey, thanks for posting these C64 football games.  Had never heard of them.  I wonder how much they paid ABC to get the rights to use their name!

No problem.  All part of the fun being on RVG :) 

There's a lot more here >> http://www.stadium64.com/covers/american/american.htm  Looking through all of these I only recognise Ocean's 'Super Bowl' and Firebird's 'On Field Football'.  I can't remember very much about either game though.

I imagine the licence to use the 'Monday Night Football' name must have been pretty extreme!  I wonder if this the only time there's been a game with this name?

[Mire Mare]

That Madden picture is scary!!!! 

You're not wrong!

[sloan]

I find it intriguing that that Monday Night Football game for SNES couldn't even manage an NFL license. Maybe Data East spent so much money to get the ABC name that nothing was left over to pay the NFL?

[TrekMD]

I find it intriguing that that Monday Night Football game for SNES couldn't even manage an NFL license. Maybe Data East spent so much money to get the ABC name that nothing was left over to pay the NFL?

That sure is curious.  Or perhaps they didn't feel it was worth the money for some reason.

[onthinice]

[align=center:2u2r5epw][size=240]Atari Lynx[/size]

Atari Lynx Tournament Cyberball 2072 (1991).avi

NFL Football sur Atari Lynx[/align:2u2r5epw]

Wonder what a port of Madden would have looked like?

[TL]

[align=center:26wzr009][size=240]NEC PC Engine / TurboGrafx[/size]

TG16 TV Sports Football

Turbo-CD - John Madden Duo CD Football[/align:26wzr009]

[onthinice]

Always wanted a Turbo CD, just to play Madden.

[TL]

[align=center:n8igunyu][size=240]3DO Real[/size]

Madden on the 3DO game system

[size=240]Sega 32X[/size]

Sega 32X - NFL Quarterback Club (1995)[/align:n8igunyu]