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Tecmo Bowl is an American football game developed and published by Tecmo. Originally released as an arcade game in 1987, the game featured a large dual screen cabinet and allowed up to four players to compete in a match between two fictitious teams. It was the very first console game to use actual players from the National Football League with permission from NFL Players Association, An NES port was released February 1, 1989 on North America and November 30, 1990 on Japan, a Game Boy port was released on 1991 and unlike the NES port, it was released worldwide.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The graphics for all versions look pretty good and have a decent attention to detail, like the arcade version, which has all the players rendered nicely.
 * 2) The soundtrack by Keiji Yamagishi is very well known and is also known for it's catchy and timeless music, like the intro theme, which is very memorable for a sports game.
 * 3) The controls for each player are very smooth and fell very responsive, especially for an early sports game from Tecmo.
 * 4) The digitized voice overs in each port are pretty impressive, like the iconic "TOUCHDOWN!" and "READY! DOWN! HUTT HUTT HUTT HUTT!", this is notable in the NES release of the game.
 * 5) It was the very first game to actually use real National Football League players, which was cool for NFL fans.
 * 6) It spawned a pretty good sequel of the game called "Tecmo Super Bowl", which was mostly based on the Super Bowl, and was also the first game to be licensed by both the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association, thus allowing the game to use both the names and attributes of real NFL teams and real NFL players.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game can be infuriating to some players.
 * 2) It sparked a controversy when a gameplay video was used in a Family Guy episode, and the video was blocked by Fox to cover their tracks.

Reception
The game received positive reviews from critics and gamers for it's graphics, play value, digitized voice overs and overall quality of the game, it was so successful that that a franchise was created.