by Kel Ask At » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:14 am
I spent many an hour on the Super Tecmo gridiron and have the knowledge that you seek. Every team has one superstar defensive player, usually a linebacker or defensive end. Not as good as LT in the original Tecmo Bowl, whose Tecmo character played in a coke-enhanced frenzy, but just find the best one. Kick off deep to the other team and pin them inside the 20. Now, study the oponent's formations because there aren't many. You can usually guess when they are doing a pitchout and just run in and intercept it. Otherwise, switch to your super defensive player and just ball-hawk. Instead of tackling the ball carrier right away, use the (B?) key and wrestle with them. A quarter of the time you can get the ball to pop out and then run it in. The rest of the time your super player can bust his way into the backfield and sack the QB, sometimes for a safety or fumble in the end zone. Blitz your DB if you have to. The computer won't find that open receiver.
Pick a team with a great defensive players, like the Bills and Bruce Smith, or the Chiefs and that LB who died. And play against the Bengals. Remember, you don't need a great defensive team, just great defensive players to control.
On the rare occassion when your offense gets the ball, just call the deep pattern and run your QB back to his own 1 yard line, wait for the defense, then chuck the ball. It will travel 100 yards downfield and your receiver will catch it half the time.
Employing this strategy, I beat the computer (with regular-length quarters) 134-0. Or maybe it was 175-0, 175 seems to stick in my head but maybe that was Mark Price's scoring average during the season I played the Cavs in NBA Live 95. Anyway, you wouldn't think you'd have enough time to score that much, but that's what they told Wilt Chamberlin and he proved us all wrong. In more ways than one.
I spent many an hour on the Super Tecmo gridiron and have the knowledge that you seek. Every team has one superstar defensive player, usually a linebacker or defensive end. Not as good as LT in the original Tecmo Bowl, whose Tecmo character played in a coke-enhanced frenzy, but just find the best one. Kick off deep to the other team and pin them inside the 20. Now, study the oponent's formations because there aren't many. You can usually guess when they are doing a pitchout and just run in and intercept it. Otherwise, switch to your super defensive player and just ball-hawk. Instead of tackling the ball carrier right away, use the (B?) key and wrestle with them. A quarter of the time you can get the ball to pop out and then run it in. The rest of the time your super player can bust his way into the backfield and sack the QB, sometimes for a safety or fumble in the end zone. Blitz your DB if you have to. The computer won't find that open receiver.
Pick a team with a great defensive players, like the Bills and Bruce Smith, or the Chiefs and that LB who died. And play against the Bengals. Remember, you don't need a great defensive team, just great defensive players to control.
On the rare occassion when your offense gets the ball, just call the deep pattern and run your QB back to his own 1 yard line, wait for the defense, then chuck the ball. It will travel 100 yards downfield and your receiver will catch it half the time.
Employing this strategy, I beat the computer (with regular-length quarters) 134-0. Or maybe it was 175-0, 175 seems to stick in my head but maybe that was Mark Price's scoring average during the season I played the Cavs in NBA Live 95. Anyway, you wouldn't think you'd have enough time to score that much, but that's what they told Wilt Chamberlin and he proved us all wrong. In more ways than one.