NFL Blitz 2001 (2000) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

NFL Blitz 2001

All of the big plays and bone-crunching hits of the arcade game can be put in the palm of your hand with NFL BLITZ 2001. As with all BLITZ games, football has been reduced to a high-scoring seven-on-seven…

12 October 2000

What NFL Blitz 2001 is

NFL Blitz 2001 is an arcade game developed by Midway and released in 2000. It is available on Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

All of the big plays and bone-crunching hits of the arcade game can be put in the palm of your hand with NFL BLITZ 2001. As with all BLITZ games, football has been reduced to a high-scoring seven-on-seven affair. Pick your squad from any of the 31 NFL teams and go at it in the Season or Arcade modes. Arcade mode has you challenge all of the teams in the league to a game, while Season mode puts you through the paces of a 16-game season, the playoffs, and a chance to win the Super Bowl. No matter what mode you play, you won't miss a second of the action thanks to the multiple camera angles that are available. Whenever there is a great play, the digitized voice of the announcer will let you…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the NFL series

NFL Blitz 2001 is the 72nd of 208 entries we hold in the NFL series. The next entry was Madden NFL 2001 in 2000.

See all 208 NFL games in release order →

What it launched against

NFL Blitz 2001 launched on 12 October 2000, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition and Escape from Monkey Island.

Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Escape from Monkey Island.

Official trailer