Tecmo Bowl
A side-scrolling, four-player American football game that can be played as two-on-two, one-on-two, etc. The game is somewhat primitive in that there is no play pattern selection; only the receiver can be…
Tecmo Bowl is a sport developed by Tecmo, released 1 December 1987 on Wii and Arcade.
What Tecmo Bowl is
Tecmo Bowl is a sport game developed by Tecmo and released in 1987. It is available on Wii and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tecmo Bowl is a 1987 American football video game developed and published by Tecmo for arcades. The game features a large dual screen cabinet with up to four players between two fictitious teams. A port for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in 1989 and was the first console game to include real National Football League players, via a license from the NFL Players Association. A Game Boy version developed by Sculptured Software followed in 1991.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and non-fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Tecmo Bowl holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Tecmo Bowl launched on 1 December 1987, within three weeks of Final Fantasy and Shinobi. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy, Shinobi.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tecmo Bowl yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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