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NES Play Action Football
Box artDeveloper(s) TOSE[1] Publisher(s) Nintendo[2] Platform(s) NES, Game Boy, Virtual Console Release date(s) NES
VC
- NA September 10, 2007
Genre(s) Traditional football simulation[2] Mode(s) Single-player
MultiplayerRating(s) ESRB: E Media/distribution NES and Game Boy: Cartridge
Virtual Console: DownloadNES Play Action Football is a football video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by TOSE[1], published by Nintendo, and was released in 1990. The game was also ported to the Game Boy as Play Action Football, and received a follow up on the Super Nintendo, Super Play Action Football, in 1992. On September 10, 2007, the game was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in North America.
Overview
This game was highly impressive for its time. It allowed players to choose from eight real teams from various cities, and each team featured all the actual players that were currently playing for them during the 1989 NFL season. The teams were: Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins.
The game used an isometric view, presenting the game at an angle to make it appear 3-D, and the game allowed a very large number of moving objects (all the players) to be on screen at the same time; in earlier games, the system couldn't handle it. In a typical NES game, few moving objects could be onscreen before they all started flashing, because the system couldn't render them all at once, but NES PAF managed to avoid this somehow and allow the system to render two entire football teams onscreen simultaneously.
Another feature that was ahead of its time was the use of real voices. NES PAF was one of an extremely small number of NES games to feature voices. Most games never bothered to implement this feature because of the primitive sound capabilities, but in NES PAF, players hear the referee say in a real voice "Touchdown!" or "First down!" You can even hear the football players yell "Ready! Set! Hut, hut.." before the play begins. At the end of each game, Nester appears as a commentator, announcing who wins and who lost.
References
- ^ a b "GDRI Company:Tose". Game Developer Research Institute. 2009-06-04. http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Tose. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
- ^ a b c "Release information". GameFAQs. http://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/587481-nes-play-action-football/data. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
External links
Categories:- 1990 video games
- Game Boy games
- Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Play Action Football video games
- Virtual Console games
- North America-exclusive video games
- Tose (company) games
- Nintendo stubs
- American football video game stubs
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