Warren Moon, HoustonД¬omment: Certain players - like Randall Cunningham - apparently refused to allow their name to be used in Tecmo Super Bowl. If you gave the ball to Bo Jackson (in good condition) and you DID NOT score, it was a comment on your own imperfections as a human being. Bo Jackson was to Tecmo Super Bowl as Mozart was to music if you combined him with Springsteen, the Beatles, B.B. Bo Jackson was to Tecmo Super Bowl as Shakespeare was to literature, but only if you combined Shakespeare with Tolstoy, Dickens, Alice Munro, and the author of the Book of Job. No one.Д¬omment: Bo Jackson was not only the best player in Tecmo Super Bowl, he was the best player in any sport in any time in every single fictional and non-fictional dimension. So: Here are in my view five best Tecmo Super Bowl players at each position. There were many different features to the game that would be fun to discuss but. In вЂњbad conditionвЂќ he ran more or less like Ray Nitschke in that famous video of him limping home after an interception. In вЂњgood conditionвЂќ Gary Anderson was a serious threat. For every game - and this was genius - players would have different health вЂњconditions.вЂќ Take a typical running back - say Tampa BayвЂ™s Gary Anderson. Here, though, we are talking about Tecmo Super Bowl.

You could get him that in two or three games in Tecmo Bowl.

If you type вЂњCap BosoвЂќ into Google, it will offer as a search suggestion вЂњTecmo.вЂќ His Tecmo greatness, I can only assume, had something to do with the awe-inspiring name вЂњCap Boso.вЂќ In real life, Cap Boso caught 54 passes in his career.

There was no reason for this play to be unbeatable, but it was. But the other blip was this little bloopy pass play to Cap Boso, a tight end for the Bears. This made some sense because in real like Marino to Duper (or Clayton) was all but unstoppable. It worked every time, even if the defense called the right play. One of the blips was a quick pass from Dan Marino to Mark Duper (unless it was Mark Clayton - I get them confused). For instance, there were a couple of offensive plays that were impossible to stop no matter what the defense did. Tecmo Bowl also had some wonderful quirks. On defense, you could choose which player you controlled (editor's note: I originally thought you could switch during play that was hockey). On offense you would have actual control of whoever had the ball. Most teams had two running plays and two passing plays (I seem to recall that Miami had three pass plays, but donвЂ™t quote me on it). So, game play: You got to choose one of four plays on offense and defense (if the defensive coach chose the same play as the offensive coach, the defense would then swarm like crazy, blowing up almost every kind of play). For simplicity, this whole piece will assume you are a single player against the computer. If you were playing against someone, then your opponent would also choose a team. I wonвЂ™t go into too much detail here - I would hope if youвЂ™ve read this far you have played the game or are familiar with it - but basically there were 12 NFL teams. The premise was in place, and it was a great one. It was like the first couple of seasons of Seinfeld. Tecmo Bowl for Nintendo - thatвЂ™s the first version of the game - came out in 1989. All of which is a way of saying that if you love more recent games, you are right and IвЂ™ll read about them on your blog. You may be older than either of us and perfectly facile with 25 different buttons all at once.

*I am speaking, here, only of Jim and myself. When video games started introducing X and Y buttons, then various other ways to input, then added a million different features, we asked for the check and left an 18% tip. That was as much as we could handle.* Two buttons. Their parents could not quite grasp this rock and roll music. Those games literally stretched our technological limits as gamers. We are the same age and dexterity and because of that, Tecmo Super Bowl and Sega hockey HAVE to be the greatest sports games for us. IвЂ™m going to hold on to this opinion even though I realize itвЂ™s much like saying, вЂњThe greatest hip hop song ever is вЂFight the PowerвЂ™ and I have not heard a single hip-hop song in the last 22 years.Д«ut see hereвЂ™s the thing - I was talking about this with my pal Chardon Jimmy. IвЂ™m going to hold firm to this opinion even though itвЂ™s incredibly stupid considering I have not played a sports video game in probably 15 years. OK, first thing we have to get out of the way is the difference between вЂњTecmo BowlвЂќ and вЂњTecmo Super Bowl.вЂќ The focus of this piece is Tecmo Super Bowl, the greatest football video game ever made, the second greatest sports video game ever made*.

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