It still plays just fine, the only real issue that I have with it is the names and the Bears mixups. The names I understand, the NFLPA doesn't have the rights to use those names anymore. But the obvious number errors for the Bears really makes me mad.
Walter Payton is not #35, Jim McMahon is not #18 (that's Mike Tomzcak his backup) and there are a couple of other ones that I were just totally confused with. Why did they change the numbers (and the speed of the Bears RB for that matter) of just a couple of players. I mean Joe Montana held out of the NFLPA towards the end of his career (thus playing as QB Chiefs, same thing with Randall Cunningham AKA QB Eagles) but #16 is the QB for the 49'ers.
All in all the game plays just fine. Part of me wonders how a button mashing football game would do nowadays where the focus is on realism. Even Blitz wasn't like this as far as gameplay goes, and it holds up over the test of time. I found myself wishing I was 10 again going next door to my neighbor Jeff's house to play Tecmo Bowl after school.
The only way that this could be better is if they would bring out Super Tecmo Bowl, but I don't know how the NFL license would work for that. Odd fact is that Morton Anderson would be the only person in the NFL now that could be in Super Tecmo Bowl.
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