10-Yard Fight (NES) review"10-Yard Fight's primitive presentation and mechanics are more detrimental to the game than favorable." |
Retro sports titles can sometimes provide a little bit of basic gaming magic. I can't speak for other players on the matter, but I personally don't mind sacrificing contemporary sports concepts and realism if the result is a charming, rustic experience. Although I'm open to the idea that retro sports games can still be entertaining in their own right, I have to admit that some old titles feel downright archaic when they are played nowadays. 10-Yard Fight, the old school American football game, leaps readily to mind...
Despite its flaws, I will admit that 10-Yard Fight's timeworn offerings remain somewhat charming, even adorable. Here you have a modest football game without bells or whistles, lacking even a playbook, a season mode, team names, or individual player identities. Heck, the game is so simplistic that its most complex feature is its array of difficulty settings, ranging from "high school team" (easiest setting) to "Super Bowl team." Even the game's visuals are sparse, displaying close to the bare minimum that you might expect from an 8-bit football game. The field is mostly unadorned, with the only decorations being that of a generic football helmet and some stock team emblems in the end zones. Populating this bland field is a collection of garishly colored, faceless players who only sport the minutest of details. There's very little to suggest that they're actually even football players. Were you to remove one of the player sprites from the context of a football arena and place them, say, amongst the screaming pedestrians in Rampage, they would blend right in.
Freelance review by Joseph Shaffer (May 19, 2013)
Rumor has it that Joe is not actually a man, but a machine that likes video games, horror movies, and long walks on the beach. His/Its first contribution to HonestGamers was a review of Breath of Fire III. |
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