Sunday, 20 April 2025

Touchdown Football (Atari 7800 review)

Developer: Imagineering
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Released: 1988

Touchdown Football is a sports game that was released on numerous platforms including Atari 8-bit computers (1986).

+ Includes a two-player mode with a great feature of being able to hide your play call by holding down the fire button.

+ Impressive amount of plays on both sides of the ball, including line shifts and audibles at the line of scrimmage.

- However, in actuality the passing game is weak as it's difficult to judge the intended location of your throws.

- Running game only involves the Quarterback and it's almost impossible to gain any noteworthy yardage.

- On Defense, the CPU gives you a nanosecond to choose a formation, which negates much of the strategic gameplay.

- Useless teammates rarely do their blocking job, while letting Wide Receivers speed by them with little resistance.

- Lack of difficulty options hurts the solo experience, and there's no time-outs to stop the clock for a final play.


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