Gameplay

The player can choose between 3 modes: 1 Player, 2 Players, and Coach. In 1 player mode, the player picks a football team and plays against the computer. After every game that the player wins, the computer picks another team to be and the player stays with their original choice. Once the player has beaten every team, they are the champion. In 2 player mode, the player and another human will play one game. In coach mode, the player and another play one game, but only the first player chooses the plays. The game acts out their choices on the field.

Teams

Tecmo Bowl contains twelve teams, each equipped with four plays. Most teams have two running plays and two passing plays. The exceptions are San Francisco and Miami who have three passing plays and one running play. Tecmo was not able to get the NFL's consent to use real team names. As a result, the teams in the game are identified solely by their home city or state. However, each roster mimics that of the NFL team based out of the same city or state.

The teams mimicked in the game are the Indianapolis Colts, the Miami Dolphins, the Cleveland Browns, the Denver Broncos, the Seattle Seahawks, the Los Angeles Raiders, the Washington Redskins, the San Francisco 49ers, the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Giants, the Chicago Bears, and the Minnesota Vikings. The reason behind the selection of these particular twelve teams is not known, though some guess that the Tecmo programmers attempted to include the most dominant teams from the era.

The 2007 Virtual Console release is a modified version of the game without the NFLPA license- players are represented only by number and not by name.

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