Computer Football Strategy

Computer Football Strategy Football Strategy
In-game screenshot
Developer(s)	Microcomputer Games Inc.[1]
Publisher(s)	NA Avalon Hill[1] EU Avalon Hill[1]
Platform(s)	Commodore 64[2] Atari 8-bit family[2]
Release date(s)	NA 1983[1] EU 1983[1]
Genre(s)	Traditional sports (Arcade football)[1]
Mode(s)	Single-player[3] Two-players[3]
System requirements 64 kilobytes of RAM[4] 5¼" floppy disk[4]

Computer Football Strategy (also known as Football Strategy^[3]) is a computer game that simulates the National Football League from a strategic point of view. It was developed for the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit family computer systems.^[2] Many retired professional football players have been noted to be content while recapturing their former heroics on this computer game.^[4]

Gameplay

The basic choice of teams span from the 1966 Green Bay Packers (the winners of Super Bowl I) to the 1982 Washington Redskins (the winners of Super Bowl XVII - the most recent Super Bowl as of the game's release).^[2] The game uses a top-down perspective in order to properly simulate the football field.^[2] The game shows the football field as a small, thin strip divided into ten-yard lines.^[5] Four basic graphics (the blue players playing the role as the defense and the black players playing the role as the offense) are considered to be "simulated American football players.^[5]" A notable criticism of the game is that having X's and O's would have been more realistic (because coaches use these in real-life football to write playbooks for the team players).^[5]

Twenty different plays can be called from the line of scrimmage with ten different outcomes depending on the defensive alignment.^[5] The display shows a minimal coverage of the action; with no movement by either the quarterback or the wide receivers.^[5] A complete lack of "hurry-up" offences means that each pass takes 15 seconds of game time to complete.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Release information". GameFAQs. http://www.gamefaqs.com/c64/916936-football-strategy/data. Retrieved 2011-03-24. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Basic game overview/additional platform information". MobyGames. http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/computer-football-strategy. Retrieved 2011-03-24. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "# of players/alternative title information". GB64.com. http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=2857&d=36. Retrieved 2011-03-24. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Advanced overview". Eli Tomlinson. http://elitomlinson.com/index.php?title=Sports_Illustrated_Computer_Football_Strategy_(C64,_5_1/4%22_Disk)_Avalon_Hill_-_1983_USA,_Canada_Release. Retrieved 2011-03-26. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Advanced game overview". Atari Magazines. http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue49/384_1_REVIEWS_Two_Games_Of_Strategy.php. Retrieved 2011-03-24.