Oh Tecmo Bowl, How I’ve Missed You
This… this is how you update a beloved game. Tecmo has remade the classic football game Tecmo Bowl — often considered the finest sports game of its time — in 2-D… and 3-D. That’s so awesome. It’s clearly the same classic gameplay in either modes, but you can play like you’re still on an NES instead of PSN or Xbox Live, or you can play with delightfully updated but still charmingly mediocre graphics, and play with weather and cheerleaders and online and more. Wonderful, just wonderful. And since no one’s mentioned this a while, I’d like to extend a big hearty “fuck you” to EA for continuing to lock up the NFL license so that no one else can make an actual NFL game. Thanks for fucking videogame-loving NFL fans over for nearly a decade now! After the new U.S. Godzilla movie makers get sodomized with Matthew Broderick, you guys are next in line.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.