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Platform Wii U, Wii, NES, Game Boy Publisher Tecmo Developer Tecmo Release Date February 1989

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The original Tecmo Bowl is coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch

By Owen S. Good on Jan 29, 2020 01.29.20

Tecmo’s 1987 arcade football game features just two teams, both of them generic

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Tecmo Super Bowl’s world championship is today. Watch it here.

By Owen S. Good on Apr 07, 2018 04.07.18

Tecmo Madison 14 gathers the elite of a sports gaming classic

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ROMs away: Modding keeps 8-bit games and sports history alive today

By Stephon Johnson on Jun 10, 2017 06.10.17

Baseball fans know about Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, two Hall of Famers who played in segregated leagues before Jackie Robinson's debut. Suffice to say, they never made a video game appearance....

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The new, mini NES Classic Edition includes games not on Wii U Virtual Console

By Allegra Frank on Jul 14, 2016 07.14.16

Nintendo’s re-releasing its very first console, the Nintendo Entertainment System, in pint-sized form. The NES Classic Edition hits retail Nov. 11 for $59.99, packing in 30 retro favorites — some...

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Nintendo announces mini NES, launching this fall

By Julia Alexander on Jul 14, 2016 07.14.16

Nintendo is set to launch its next console, the NX, in March, but the company is also giving fans of its retro games something to look forward to as well: a new, mini Nintendo Entertainment...

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The Super Bowl of Tecmo Super Bowl comes to an end

By Owen S. Good on Feb 20, 2016 02.20.16

Who knows how many have set down their bags in a motel in Madison, Wisconsin, quietly nurturing the fantasy that they were the one, the resurrected dorm rat or basement fighter who materializes out...

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Two NES football classics get you ready for the NFL's new season

By Owen S. Good on Sep 12, 2015 09.12.15

Right before the first Sunday of the NFL's regular season there's a double-dose of news from a classic football series for the NES. The first is that Tecmo Bowl — the original game from 1989 — is n...

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The Super Bowl of Tecmo Super Bowl is today. Watch it here.

By Owen S. Good on Mar 07, 2015 03.07.15

Today is Tecmo Madison 11, the de facto world championship for 1991 NES classic Tecmo Super Bowl. Two hundred fifty competitors — all of them playing on native hardware and CRT televisions — will...

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2014 in review: Polygon's best reports cover war, flood, The Hobbit and Satan's schemings

By Brian Crecente on Dec 19, 2014 12.19.14

Looking back over a year's worth of news, a lot happened in 2014. Studios fell apart, others rose from the ashes. Game makers worked through war, floods, even — according to one team — the...

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Super Mario Bros. 3, Tecmo Bowl, more coming to Virtual Console

By Samit Sarkar on Aug 07, 2013 08.07.13

Nintendo is delivering a smattering of retro classics to the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console services later this year, including Super Mario Bros. 3 and Tecmo Bowl, the company announced...