Tag: Tecmo Super Bowl

Best SNES sports games – no microtransactions, pure fun

The best SNES sports games really do compare favorably to modern titles, even besides the nostalgia factor.

The best SNES sports games really do compare favorably to modern titles, even besides the nostalgia factor. The Super Nintendo era was a chapter in game industry history well before microtransactions, season passes, Ultimate Team, or soulless annualized sports title releases. Developers were just excited to see what they could make using 16 bits of data.

What they arrived at were some all-timers in gaming history. They may look primitive by modern standards, but their gameplay holds up. Because games lived and died on how they played in this era, developers weren’t trying to build games-as-a-service ecosystems, they really were just trying to make their titles as fun as possible. Well, with the honorable exception of LJN, who seemed to be trying just as tenaciously to achieve the exact opposite. Anyway: the games.

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WATCH: Final minutes of Chiefs-Bills game in 8-bit ‘Tecmo Super Bowl’ style

The creative minds at @Benstonium re-created the final minutes of the #Chiefs vs. #Bills divisional-round game in 8-bit Tecmo Super Bowl style.

The ending of the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Buffalo Bills divisional-round game was an instant classic that has left fans in awe days after its conclusion.

The creative minds at Benstonium felt the ending to the game was so good that it deserved its own re-creation in the style of the classic Nintendo Entertainment System video game “Tecmo Super Bowl.” Move over Christian Okoye! Chiefs fans can see some of the new-school favorites like Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill in 8-bit style. From the music down to the play calls down to the loading screens, everything about this re-creation is perfect.

It captures the back-and-forth scoring between the Bills and Chiefs in the final two minutes of the game. Then, you get the Chiefs’ 13-second drive with the catches from Hill and Kelce to tie the game and force overtime. Even the coin toss was a perfect re-creation. All-in-all this makes you wonder why there hasn’t been a video game studio to create an 8-bit football game with updated NFL rosters.

You can watch the video in the tweet at the top of the page and check out more creations like this over at Benstonium.com.

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