Today's most retro recap video: Super Tecmo Bowl XLII
by Ross Miller 
{ Feb 1st 2008 at 1:00AM }
Exactly one year ago, the BBPS gang tried to use Tecmo Bowl to predict the Super Bowl champs. The game simulation picked the Bears (yeah, that was wrong). This year, Madden 08 picked Tom Brady's New England Patriots as the winning time for Super Bowl XLII, but what does Tecmo Bowl say? ArmChairGM ran the simulation.We'll won't spoil the results (that link will), but you can watch the game in the two videos embedded after the break.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mmendoza27 @ Feb 1st 2008 1:34AM
This can't be!!! I want the Giants to win, but I tell you, it would be amazing to see the Patriots go undefeated!!
Ahh, the greatness of hacked ROMs... this was the greatest game ever created!!
Phanman @ Feb 1st 2008 8:24AM
I don't believe this is a hacked ROM. This appears to be Tecmo Super Bowl, which was the sequel to Tecmo Bowl. This game had all those nifty cut scenes and also you could customize your roster. So someone likely just went to great pains to recreate the current teams in the game.
rcm_rx7 @ Feb 2nd 2008 12:16AM
No you're wrong, it's a hacked rom. It is Super Tecmo Bowl, the sequel to Tecmo Bowl, but customizable rosters weren't available until later versions on SNES/Genesis. Come on guys, it's the best football game ever made, get your facts straight!
xeleion @ Feb 1st 2008 1:38AM
Man, I just VCed the original Tecmo Bowl tonight! I loved that game so much when I was little.
Dudes113 @ Feb 1st 2008 1:43AM
I hate the patriots so much, they need to be defeated. Everyone knows they're going to win, but i really just want the giants to crush them
ck @ Feb 1st 2008 11:39AM
I'm with you on this one. I was really hoping they would have stumbled sometime this year or in the playoffs...
I just want to wipe that stupid smirk off of Tom Brady's face. God damn I hate him and New England fans. They're possibly the worst fans in the world.
vidGuy @ Feb 1st 2008 1:52AM
We are guaranteed to see history this Sunday. We either get to see the first 19-0 in NFL history (beating out the 1972 Miami Dolphins' 17-0 mark), or we get to see arguably the greatest upset in sports history.
I'm a huge Packers fan and was torn up when the Giants edged them, but I've got to root for them; they've beat out the NFC's best in the Cowboys and Pack, hopefully they can take it to the league's best, too.
Gerwurztraminer @ Feb 1st 2008 9:22AM
I'm a Giants and Packers fan which made that last game hard for me to watch. I suppose OT was the best I could hope for, funny how that worked out. In the end I was rooting for Favre despite wearing my Manning jersey. So now of course, no choice but to root for Big Blue!
Billy @ Feb 1st 2008 2:06AM
Everyone hates the Patriots just because it's cool to hate the Patriots. What a bunch of fucking sheep people are. I'm not necessarily their biggest fan but I enjoy watching them play because they're freaking insane. I hope they win :P
vidGuy @ Feb 1st 2008 2:37AM
It's cool to hate people who hate the Patriots.
Seriously, they've made it easy to hate on them this year. First off, everyone wants to beat the big dog. Add in Spygate, Belichick's attitude, Brady's pompous air, Moss's trash talk, and the fact that they stayed perfect with the help of some questionable calls (especially in the Baltimore game), and you've got a stew full of justified hate.
If the NFL was rigged, I'm not sure what outcome would be more popular, the perfect season realized or the effort thwarted by a huge underdog.
Scott @ Feb 1st 2008 2:08AM
The scores in this simulation seem strangely more realistic than those presented by EA's more modern effort.
Gangsta Smurf @ Feb 1st 2008 2:20AM
Tecmo Bowl makes football so epic! I love it!!
why not the LS2/LS7? @ Feb 1st 2008 2:26AM
That game is very exciting. Probably more exciting than the real Superbowl.
The summary is fantastic too. I love the 3.5 yards and no more comment.
LaughingTarget @ Feb 1st 2008 4:52AM
Man, Tecmo Bowl. Fun game but the AI was so horrible. It was amazing how many times, on both teams, a receiver was standing there, 10 yards away, no coverage, not moving and the QB tosses the ball to the guy with two man coverage.
Squirrel3D @ Feb 1st 2008 5:23AM
Hey I'm a ravens fan....
*ducks for flying objects*
....and I don't have a favorite in this game. I just wanna see a great super bowl effort from both teams. And don't forget those commercials!!
dan stabbingworth @ Feb 1st 2008 9:24AM
The Bears were so ridiculous in Tecmo Bowl, no wonder it picked them to win.
GRANTED @ Feb 1st 2008 9:54AM
as a duke alum, i have to root for the giants. why?
we just picked up david cutcliffe for the HC job, and he trained peyton and eli. what better resume than two proteges winning superbowls in back-to-back years?
so yeah, eli's got to win it if duke has any hope of rising out acc bottom-dwelling status.
Hooray It\\\'s Rob! @ Feb 1st 2008 12:23PM
Tom Brady is so awesome - he threw every pass left-handed and STILL out-passed Eli!
Joe @ Feb 1st 2008 3:22PM
HURR.
The Patriots didn't cheat. If you call "breaking a rule" cheating, it is. But they were reprimanded. 1.25m is a lot of dough. And our first-round draft pick is gone. So yes, we broke a rule. That everyone else in the league regularly breaks. Remember the controversy before the second Jets game, where the Jets were revealed as having done the same as the Pats, against us last year? No, because Belichick didn't make a big deal about it.
The "running up the score" fiasco? Shoddy media coverage. Brady was a non-factor in the final quarters... remember a guy called Kyle Eckel? Um, he's our third-string RB and he scored multiple TDs. We ran it up the middle, running out the clock. And it led to touchdowns.
And cocky? COCKY? Of all things, COCKY. We've been the most polite team of the entire league. "We're looking toward next week, the *insert team* have some tough areas of play." I seem to remember it was other teams whom were cocky against us. The Steelers, Eagles, and Chargers have been trash-talking before losing.
And the games were "fixed because of bad calls"? Remember the SD-IND game, with the INT TD return that was called back... due to a ghost penalty, leading to mass outrage and the commentators themselves getting angry? Every game has bad calls, and every team benefits from them in some situations.
LaughingTarget @ Feb 2nd 2008 8:14AM
Who's we? Don't you mean they?
Eldorian @ Feb 1st 2008 9:24PM
Sweet, I can't wait to see the Mighty Bombjack halftime show this Sunday.
hvnlysoldr @ Feb 2nd 2008 10:29PM
Both are top notch teams. Whoever makes the most mistakes, not capitalizing mistakes are mistakes, will lose.