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Chet Holzbauer can't remember any other gift from that mad Christmas Day scramble 20 years ago. As far as he knows, the cacophony of torn paper came to a stop, like the needle coming off a record, when he and his brother unwrapped Tecmo Super Bowl. More »
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Ah, and now the football video game that really is just a roster and uniform update, and that's all everyone wants it to be. Just in time for the NFL's kickoff tomorrow, modders today released Tecmo Super Bowl 2012. It's the same NES classic you've loved for 20 years, updated with the stars of the current league. More »
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Proving the eternal relevance of Tecmo Bowl, here's a recap of yesterday evening's No. 1 American Football highlight, the electrifying run by Marshawn Lynch to seal Seattle's senses-shattering 41-36 playoff victory over New Orleans. More »
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This year, famed film critic Roger Ebert said games could never be art — a mistake he later admitted. While Ebert might not be a fan of games, that doesn't mean he didn't used to play them obsessively . More »
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The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants on Sunday with a play that just should not have happened. It defied logic in real life; it defies logic when it's recreated in the classic video game Tecmo Bowl. More »
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Tecmo Bowl Throwback disappointed multiplayer enthusiasts when it appeared that ragequitting didn't count in players' records, among other complaints of online problems at launch. Originally Tecmo was said to be working up a patch. The publisher now says it isn't. More »
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Today, a sports title without real players and teams has a hard pitch to make. If any franchise can close the deal, it's the one that started it all: Tecmo Bowl, trading on 20 years of nostalgia with Tecmo Bowl Throwback. More »
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Classic football game Tecmo Super Bowl was first released on the NES in 1991. It had real players, who you probably presumed had all retired years ago, but no. The last one only hung up his boots last week. More »
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Tecmo Bowl Throwback players may have noticed you can ragequit a 38-0 beating scot-free, no forfeit, no loss, no nothing. Tecmo is said to be working on a fix for this. More »
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One of the most appealing things about Tecmo Bowl Throwback, which released yesterday, is the ability to switch between the 3D view and retro 16-bit view during a play. It may look like promotional video, but it's live. More »
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Tecmo's reboot of the console classic Tecmo Bowl arrives on Xbox Live on April 28 for 800 Microsoft Points, but there's no word yet on when PlayStation owners get in on the fun. More »
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If Tecmo Bowl Throwback actually plays like its 1991 cousin, with similar players, then in addition to destroying everything on earth with the Run-and-Shoot Houston Oilers, I guarantee I'll get eight of the game's 12 achievements in my first game. More »
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This interview with the producer of the upcoming Tecmo Bowl Throwback delivers tons of gameplay video and tells us what to expect from the game - although it still doesn't tell us when it will release. More »
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There have been rumors that Tecmo is bringing Tecmo Bowl to the PSN and Xbox LIVE Arcade with Tecmo Bowl Throwback. If you believe the ESRB, those rumors could be true. More »
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Operation Sports' Mr. NFL provides this recreation of the clinching play in Super Bowl XLIV - Tracy Porter's pick-six interception of Peyton Manning in the fourth quarter - complete with CBS commentary. More »
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Maybe the NHL names every award for someone, but the NFL gives blandly titled honors. Pigskin Doctors concocted awards named for players from Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl, giving them to current players who most resemble their performances. More »
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New ESRB ratings indicate that Tecmo is planning to inject some life into the incredibly dull Wii Virtual Console Arcade lineup, with new ratings for Ninja Gaiden, Solomon's Key and Rygar. More »
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As any sports gamer - or anyone who's seen Swingers - can tell you, Jeremy Roenick in NHL '94 was the definition of unstoppable force. Score, win fights, deliver punishing checks, it was all automatic for Roenick. More »
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This week's Nintendo Download is dedicated to those of you who felt that the poker games already available for the Nintendo Wii just weren't sexy enough. More »
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Wii trends have turned a planned Tecmo Bowl Wii into a family football game, according to G4. More »
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No Bo in the new Tecmo Bowl? It's so. Best way to deal with it is to get over it, and move on with your lives. Focus on the future. A future where, despite featuring no NFL licenses and receiving a complete visual overhaul, Tecmo Bowl on the DS is looking as faithful an update as you could hope for. More »
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To: Tecmo More »
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When Tecmo announced last year that its classic footballer Tecmo Bowl was returning to unlicensed glory in 2008, it failed to mention just about anything beyond that. No platform, no details, nothing but the sting of nostalgia. However, if the most recent rumors from EGM are to be believed, Tecmo Bowl is coming to the Nintendo DS and Wii, albeit in too very different forms. More »
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Hey! If some dude can make musical instruments out of fresh produce, then damn skippy that the some other dude can make Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges into harmonica. There's a photo walk through (complete with screwing and sanding), should you be interested in blowing into your copy of Tecmo Bowl and getting it to play... music. More »
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Tecmo is best known for Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive and Tecmo Bowl. Since Tomonobu Itagaki works at Tecmo and since MTV was interviewing Itagaki, they asked when Tecmo was going to revitalize Tecmo Bowl. Says Itagaki: More »
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Tecmo announced last night at its Nite Out press event that Rygar is coming back to Nintendo hardware with Project Rygar for the Wii. Little in the way of concrete details are available, but, according to IGN, players will use the Wii remote waggling to deploy Rygar's famous Diskarmor weapon. More »
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We've admittedly been on a bit of a video game hoodie tear lately, but it's cold out there! We nerds need to stay warm. High quality retro gaming hoodies and sweatshirts are not in short supply this season, with both the No Mas and Lemar & Dauley clothing company's producing some "dope gear" as the kids say. More »
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Kotakuite Rikku noticed an extremely odd challenge issued on Tecmo-Bowl.com: More »
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Despite the fact that the classic sports titles R.B.I. Baseball, Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl were released in 1988, 1989, and 1991 respectively, the games still contain a small handful of active players. More »
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