VC Monday Madness: Tecmo Bowl brings back fond memories

Many will say Sonic Spinball is junk, but I actually have the Genesis set up for that game and a few others. Of course, this means I won't be buying Spinball on the VC.

I'm looking forward to Star Fox 64, which will probably be the next download for me.

Ready, Down. HUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUTHUT!!

I bought a lot of the Sonic games on Genesis and not much else for it, renting games in another matter. I liked Sonic's speed in Spinball but the pit deaths especially on the last level ruined it. And there's 11 chaos emeralds! That doesn't make any sense. Sonic doesn't have an option to become Super. The badniks kept popping up too randomly. The running and jumping sections felt bad after pinball. In the end it was a pinball game that had Sonic theme to it and unlike Metroid Prime: Pinball it wasn't enough.

I was thinking we might get Excite Bike, but Tecmo Bowl is enough to get me by. Maybe a little Super Tecmo Bowl in a few months would be nice.

Tecmo Bowl might be just the thing to end my 'Virtual Console no-purchase-athon'. Up to this point I couldn't justify spending the money to purchase any of the games; mainly because all of my single-player time has been deliciously gobbled up by Zelda.

Tecmo Bowl, however, not only conjures up a nostalgia of a simpler time (read: easily throwing 90-yard TD passes like it's my job), it's also a great game to simply pick up and play.

This is the best VC Monday yet, imho!

Very tempted by Tecmo Bowl... but Super Tecmo Bowl is where it's REALLY at. Puhleeeease?

Blazing Lasers! I just want Blazing Lasers.

Sigh.

StarFox, StarFox, StarFox... Huh... No StarFox? Hmm...

See you in a week...

so disappointing. Where's mario 2 and 3?

While I will agree that The last levels of Sonic Spinball are almost impossible, it is still one of the better games for the Genesis. I do not see why you would say a game is not good because it has 11 chaos emeralds, what sense does that make? Tecmo Bowl is ok but you are better off waiting for either Tecmo Super Bowl or Super Tecmo Bowl depending on what system they chose to use. I so hope they come out with what is in my opinion the best pinball game for Genesis and made by the old EA, Motley Crue Ball.

Disappointed because I want Starfox 64. :p

Tecmo Bowl....Awesome!!!!!! What a great Classic Game...Just wish it was Multiplayer...oh well...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet:

For the price of a couple/few of the Genesis Sonic titles through the Virtual Console (priced at $8 each), you can pick up Sonic Mega Collection for GameCube (anywhere between $15-$25 now), which includes seven Genesis Sonic (I believe that's all of the major ones) games as well as five unlockables (seven for the Japanese version).

If they released every game (not including the unlockables) that's on the Mega Collection, with the Virtual Console pricing standards for Genesis games, it would come to $56.

For that, you could buy the GameCube Mega Collection and two used (or new) GC controllers, provided you don't already have one or two, and possibly save a few dollars in the process.

oh, also, more details on the Sonic Mega Collection:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mega_Collection

@ schweinnouisu

That's exactly why i won't get spinball, or any other Sonic genesis game (or Ristar or vectorman for that matter)

Those Sega GC collections were the best (Sonic Gems collection)

Excitebike, Pro Wrestling, please!

My fiancée is a big fan of Sonic, so I got Spinball for her yesterday. Has anyone else downloaded it and noticed that the game runs very very slowly? It seems kind of crazy that the Genesis version runs at nearly twice the speed as the Wii one. The game could be fun, but the speed factor makes it feel like I'm moving in slow motion.

And yes, I know about the mega collection, but everywhere I've tried to buy it has been sold out.