Jonathan Last

My Gift to You
April 19th, 2011

Blades of Steel. Zelda. Metroid. Ikari Warriors. Tecmo Bowl. Double Dribble. Everything.

That. Just. Happened.

Anonymous Mike April 19, 2011 at 3:15 pm

Dude,

The Czabe covered this all in his morning show yesterday on AM 570.

While you’re recycling things from his show why not mention Slingbox is available on the Ipad and that using Twitter from your mobile is like leaving a loaded Uzi around the house?

Jason O. April 19, 2011 at 8:59 pm

Will anything ever be as unstoppable as Bo Jackson in Tecmo bowl, or Tecmo Super Bowl?

SkinsFanPG April 20, 2011 at 9:03 am

Jason O:
Phil Simms to Mark Bavaro on a curl route on the original tecmo was the most impossible play to stop. For each play in tecmo there was a corresponding defense that would stop it (several, in fact). The Bavaro route was the only play in the game in which NO DEFENSE could stop the play. It didn’t matter what the defense called, the play was impossible to stop. I could stop Bo in TSB because you still needed to be a decent player to utilize Bo’s strength and speed. You literally could not stop the Bavaro curl, no matter how hard you tried.

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