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Post by triploption on Jun 22, 2007 14:13:02 GMT -6
Does anyone remember that Atrai football game with the X'S & O'S....table top video game. I am sitting here watching my son play NCAA 2007 on the Xbox, and it got me to thinking....I need to find one of those old Atari games...see if I can buy one.....show my son what we used to play. That roller ball on top, I can remember many a nights pinching the hell out of my hand trying to score. What a great game.
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Post by coachcalande on Jun 22, 2007 14:18:58 GMT -6
was that Atari?...I remember that game! ,,, do you remember "M Network" football? or intellevision football?....or "10 yard fight?"...fight was my favorite game! spent most of my college laundry money on that one.
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Post by triploption on Jun 22, 2007 14:27:36 GMT -6
I dont remember either of those.....feel like I have missed out. When we would play that atari x's & o's our hands got so beat up that we actually wore padded fingerless gloves, we must have looked like a bunch of punks drinking our slurpees and playing that game. We would play for hours.....so simple yet so much fun.....now my son is running tripleoption out of the maryland I....on the xbox.
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Post by dblwngr on Jun 22, 2007 15:01:08 GMT -6
Although I did play my share of "Ten yard fight", I'm more from the "Tecmo Bowl" generation. Walter Payton, Kevin Mack, Bo Jackson, those guys were unstopable on that game!
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Post by ocinaz on Jun 22, 2007 15:05:36 GMT -6
10 yard fight was legit!!! Tecmo Bowl was great also....The Raiders were unstoppable, Bo Jackson or Marcus Allen, you couldn't go wrong....Don't remember who the QB was, maybe Jay Schroeder?
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Post by Coach Goodnight on Jun 22, 2007 15:06:19 GMT -6
What about the portable football games, the ones with the red dots and you could play against your buddies, forget what it was called but played it in 4th and 5th grade, thought it was the best game ever, also played a lot of techmo bowl too!!
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Post by cc on Jun 22, 2007 16:58:28 GMT -6
Tecmo was my favorite. Yeah it was Schroeder. The Colts were so bad then. Bo was unreal. I did not like Marcus as much. LT was unreal for the Giants then. Next Super Tecmo Bowl was awesome!
I remember 10 yard fight vaguley.
I have a PS 2 and have Madden 07 and NCAA 07. Its unreal. I wish all of my players had it. Its as close to VR training as you can get!!!
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Post by tvt50 on Jun 22, 2007 20:29:25 GMT -6
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jun 22, 2007 20:39:18 GMT -6
Tecmo Bowl...amazing game, honestly Super Tecmo Bowl never got me excited like the original. I think it was Ronnie Lott that you could cover the entire field with and pick off any pass.
But he still got trucked by Bo.
The stuff today - I remember I used to lose in the old PS1 games because I thought like a coach and everyone else used the tricks. NCAA '07...thinking like a coach actually works.
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Post by dacoachmo on Jun 22, 2007 20:57:55 GMT -6
X and O...my hands blisters thinking of playing the game at an old pizza joint.
TECMO rocked.
how about CYBERBALL? robots playing football different robots at different positions.
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Post by kboyd on Jun 22, 2007 21:24:57 GMT -6
Tecmo Bowl and then Super Tecmo Bowl were the best games going back then. Bo was unstoppable...man I'm old. Oh well, my 9 year old and I had a helluva match tonight playing NCAA 2007. My Michigan beat his Ohio State with a last second TD - you know you suck at video games when your 9 year old gives you a run.
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Post by dblwngr on Jun 22, 2007 22:06:22 GMT -6
Ten yard fight, and NES Play Action football were my favorites before the Maddens. I never had Tecmo bowl. Anybody else remember NES Play Action football? I always played with the Redskins. Man, I would have never remembered that game if you had'nt of brought it up!! I used to use the broncos or redskins. There was a lateral button so you could bring the option to the NFL! Elway pitching to Bobby Humphrey all day! |
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Post by groundchuck on Jun 23, 2007 6:22:50 GMT -6
10-Yard Fight was my very first video game for NES back in the day. Then Tecmo Bowl was the rage. Tecmo was cool b/c it was the first to use realy players, and of course "Tecmo Bo" is the single greatest video game athlete ever. Unstoppable.
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Post by coachjd on Jun 23, 2007 6:31:58 GMT -6
here is a web link that has some info on the atari x and o football game. This was one of my top 3 video games I always played back in the day. The other 2 were Tron and battle tanks. www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=13018 |
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Post by Coach Huey on Jun 23, 2007 12:26:52 GMT -6
what about before video games ....
think it was called hall of fame football or something like that. you picked a play (you had several transarent sheets to choose from) and your opponent chose a defensive play (again, sheets to choose from). then, after both had chosen, you placed them on a light box thing and wherever one of your lines crossed one of his lines, that is how much you gained or lost.
then, couple years later they made an advanced version but didn't have that one ... went to the atari 3-man football game, where all 3 "men" moved in a line together as if attached at the hip.
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Post by Yash on Jun 23, 2007 13:09:01 GMT -6
If only coaching was as easy as these video games are. Then again i get mad at the video games when the pulling guard misses a block or my center gets trucked 5 plays in a row.
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Post by coache67 on Jun 23, 2007 15:25:21 GMT -6
Nobody remembers electric football . . .
Or is everyone trying to forget that one?
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Post by coachcalande on Jun 23, 2007 16:53:00 GMT -6
Nobody remembers electric football . . . Or is everyone trying to forget that one? still my favorite game. |
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Post by groundchuck on Jun 23, 2007 18:07:28 GMT -6
what about before video games .... think it was called hall of fame football or something like that. you picked a play (you had several transarent sheets to choose from) and your opponent chose a defensive play (again, sheets to choose from). then, after both had chosen, you placed them on a light box thing and wherever one of your lines crossed one of his lines, that is how much you gained or lost. then, couple years later they made an advanced version but didn't have that one ... went to the atari 3-man football game, where all 3 "men" moved in a line together as if attached at the hip. When I was a kid I had a version of the game you describe. It was in a leather (or faux leather) carrying case and when you opened it up there was a football field inside. Then there were play cards for offense, like maybe 80 of them, and various defenses. You rolled the dice and the number combo that came up gave you the result in little transparent window on the top (defensive) card laid over the offensive card. |
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Post by CoachDaniel on Jun 23, 2007 18:29:44 GMT -6
That game sounds like dungeons and dragons meets football...but oddly fascinating.
Still, I'm glad I was born in the 80s
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Post by dubber on Jun 23, 2007 18:40:54 GMT -6
Nobody remembers electric football . . . Or is everyone trying to forget that one? I was born in the 80's, and I found this game in a box of stuff my dad had...................freaking awesome------hilarious when you ball carrier keeps going in circles |
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Post by brophy on Jun 23, 2007 20:10:11 GMT -6
when did I get OLD?!?!?!  I grew up in the 70's with 3 older brothers...... The electric football board that my brother meticulously painted as the Steelers..... The handheld Mattel video game with the dots.....I still don't know how to even interpret those dots..... before that I remember playing some GRIDIRON football card dice/board game..... LLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!
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Post by coachjim on Jun 24, 2007 23:52:20 GMT -6
Hahaha... tecmo bowl! Tecmo was great EXCEPT... every team had at least one stupid cheese play that you couldn't stop. Remember how Jerry Rice would ALWAYS catch that stupid pass down the sidelines for a TD no matter what you did to stop it? Loved Tecmo, but those Raider and Niner cheese plays were just too annoying. And there was always one loser in the group who would do the cheese plays anyway... in the end, we actually had rules that prohibited the cheese plays, once we found them. Brophy, I grew up with the electronic one too... didn't it have the Steeler and Cowboy uniforms? I loved that game; how the guy with the ball would always vibrate backwards into my own endzone.  I've seen them at flea markets and they go for big bucks. Wish I still had mine. Ah well... Anyone remember the hand held football game you could play two players on with the little lines for players? Thats another oldie but a goodie. Question: Anyone know if the XBOX version of 2007 NCAA Football has teams that use the Wing T AND you can create your own plays? Just curious before I go spending 50 bucks. |
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Post by briangilbert on Jun 25, 2007 1:54:18 GMT -6
You're all forgetting that in Tecmo you could take the NT and just hit the (Dive/Tackle) button at the snap and get a SACK every time if the QB was under Center! It was unreal!
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Post by brophy on Jun 25, 2007 8:18:51 GMT -6
if the XBOX version of 2007 NCAA Football has teams that use the Wing T AND you can create your own plays? Just curious before I go spending 50 bucks. not really. You can get flexbone playbooks and run triple option like your double dive / belly..... or you can make your own playbook (with no belly motion or crossbuck) NCAA is probably the only football game worth getting now. |
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Post by Coach Goodnight on Jun 25, 2007 8:59:37 GMT -6
Coachjim,
that is the handheld I was talking about playing when I was in the 4th and 5th grade, if you ever got going, it seemed like an eternity before you scored a touchdown, lol!!
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Post by fbdoc on Jun 25, 2007 10:42:56 GMT -6
My friends an I all played Electric Football. Had our own teams, league, and stats! Spent more time working on "flicking" that little piece of felt football than I did working on my own football skills! We played steady from 5th grade into sophmore year... then girls and other pursuits took over. You're right - I wish I still had mine!
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Post by coachrji on Jun 25, 2007 18:39:16 GMT -6
I spent many late nights playing this game. [  |
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Post by dacoachmo on Jun 25, 2007 21:43:09 GMT -6
 This classic board game rocked. you can still buy. strat-o-matic pro football |
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Post by coachaldridge on Jun 25, 2007 22:39:59 GMT -6
Great nostalgia fellas.
Tecmo bowl was the first Nintendo game I purchased. Remember buying it at Fred's. Four plays to choose from. Great Simplicity!
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I've seen them at flea markets and they go for big bucks. Wish I still had mine. Ah well...
