Tecmo Super Bowl (PlayStation) Playthrough
133A playthrough of Tecmo's 1996 license-based football game for the Sony PlayStation, Tecmo Super Bowl.
In this video, I play an entire season as the San Francisco 49ers.
The original 1991 NES version is the most remembered and beloved game to bear the Tecmo Super Bowl name, but it was just the beginning of a series that saw several remakes and sequels in the early-to-mid 90s. After a string of titles for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, this summer 1996 release marked the end for the series until the franchise was revived twelve years later for the Nintendo Wii and DS.
The PlayStation's Tecmo Super Bowl doesn’t make many changes to the classic formula: it adds live commentary, updated graphics, a few cheesy FMV sequences, larger playbooks, an adjustable camera, and an instant replay option to the mix. The core gameplay still closely resembles what was seen back on the NES, right down to the familiar two-button control scheme, and it's still a lot of fun, though it does seem to have lost a bit of its magic in its transition to the 32-bit platform. The grainy player sprites tend to blur together against the chunky 3D field textures and make the field harder to read, the flow of the game is slower, and the presentation lacks a lot of the punchy flash that the earlier games were known for since there's no in-game music, nor are there any half-time shows.
But even with these drawbacks, if you loved the 8 and 16-bit games, you'll find a lot to like about this one, too. (Just make sure you have a dedicated memory card - a save file requires eleven blocks!)
If you'd like to see more, here are a few links to some other TSB playthroughs I've done:
San Francisco 49ers (2021) NES
https://youtu.be/BxY8KcmGeD4
Cincinnati Bengals (2022) NES
https://youtu.be/IyHhFg3wod4
Philadelphia Eagles (2023) SNES
https://youtu.be/WpeIn9ebuzg
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