Great Moments in Tecmo Bowl History

If you're an NFL fan in your mid to late twenties, chances are you grew up playing Tecmo Bowl. While the graphics and game play were highly suspect, the game had one feature that made it stand above the competition: STATS. The NFL & NFLPA license didn't hurt either.

Here's a YouTube retrospective beginning with the ten best players in the original 8-bit game:

By now you've all seen Bo Jackson's incredible TD run that consumes an entire quarter of game play. But have you seen it with the Benny Hill theme playing as background music?

While Bo gets all the publicity for his Tecmo exploits, let's not forget Christian Okoye, who was so sick that you really didn't have any use for the servicable Barry Word when using the Chiefs. Here's a TD run with 61 broken tackles from the "Nigerian Nightmare"

With running skills like that, it wasn't too difficult to win the Super Bowl (even with Steve De Berg at QB) and watch this incredible credits sequence.

It really was surprising to see so many Tecmo Bowl vids on YouTube. Can you believe someone took the time to upload Steve Grogan dinking and dunking down the field with John Stephens for a flawless TD drive? Can you believe I watched the whole thing?

People also got creative with the game. Here's Dan Marino's famous fake-spike TD to Mark Ingram synched up with the live game call.

And here's someone recreating Ricky Williams' 2007 season, Tecmo style.

I'll leave you with this haunting look at Tecmo Bowl TD hookups that never were. It's worth waiting for number 10, trust me. Eerie.