Every Super Nintendo American Football Game - SNESdrunk 

Madden ambulance is classic, kills players to pick up a guy with a sprained ankle.

Sterling Sharpe was a top receiver in the few years he was in the league, 6-7 catches /game. way underrated.

I found this channel about a month ago and noticed a bunch of hints this guy might be from Minnesota and this mostly confirms it. Trolling Packers fans with the Sterling Sharpe bit it hilarious.

I laughed so freakin hard at the ambulance. lol.

... I remember Sterling Sharpe...

Sterling Sharpe was an amazing talent. If not for a neck injury, he'd be in the HoF. His brother, Shannon, is a HoFer.

I never realized how many developers the NFL used to license their rights to. It's sad to think about it as now only EA is allowed to make NFL games which means no NFL 2K or Blitz.

There's also the rare "Tecmo Super Bowl II: Special Edition" in which you can play a three year, 1992-1994 NFL schedule with corresponding rosters for that particular season (I think that's impressive). The knocks I have on the game are that there's no first down marker of any kind, the CPU goes for two much too often, when you intercept the ball you aren't informed of the player who picked off the pass, and the stats screen during games doesn't acknowledge enough players for all the space it has. Otherwise, it's a lot like the third game, which I do agree is the best football game on the SNES.

I LOVED Tecmo Super Bowl III but don't follow sports at all. To me, that's the mark of a great sports game. A store shipped it to us by complete accident and my parents just gave it to me. Score!

This is the best the Vikings have played in years!

Come on now, what self respecting football fan who grew up in the 90s doesnt remember Sterling Sharpe? That dude was a beast until he injured his neck. His bro Shannon is gonna come after ya! :-D Also, maybe I'm weird but I played the ever living hell out of Super Play Action. Once you get used to the way the field is presented it's not too hard to get the passing game down and it has a fairly decent run game for the era.

SNES DRUNK IS bar none the best reviewer on RU-vid. Thanks for these videos

I liked Super Play Action Football. The playbook was kind of a learning curve, but the leaping interceptions and stiff arms were satisfying. Also the college version let you customize your schedule which was nice.

Terry Allen, y’all. Two rebuilt knees.

Cool video. It's great to see a retro gamer covering these sports games that don't get talked about often enough. Fun fact: the fake field goal pass in Pro Quarterback works almost every time, no matter where you are on the field!

I love Super Play Action Football. It's the only game ever with HS, College, and NFL in the same game, and you really feel the difference in each mode. This was the game that made me a football fan. It's an absolute masterpiece. Easily one of the best football games ever made.

I just picked up Quarterback Club '96 for .99 cents at my local game store, thanks to this video. You rock, SNESdrunk!

Tecmo Super Bowl III also has create-a-player that works like an RPG in how they improve over time which really adds a ton of value to it over the other two games in the series.

I love your videos SNES Drunk but most kids/teens who really liked and watched football like I did remember Sterling Sharpe. He was an underrated receiver but still a good one. With the way they throw the ball in today's game his numbers may look like he sucked but in that day and the way the game was played then he was a really good talent. Didn't help that you had Rice, Carter, Rison, Irvin, Moss and other really great WR's in or entering the league as teams were finally starting to open the field passing with HOF QB's. Aikman, Montana, Young, Cunningham, Simms, Esaison, Kelly, Elway, Favre... the league was ripe with so much talent at the QB position in the early 90's.

Tecmo Super Bowl III is my favorite football game ever and in my top 10 of favorite games period! So many memories with friends!

super high impact was fun especially when you'd get into fights & stuff.. SOMEBODY GET A BODY BAG!! ha

The tecmo games are definitely the most fun to play. I have nostalgic memories of ABC Monday Night Football because my parents bought it for me one year, but it's true the game play is slow and painful. But it does have power plays which are kind of cool. Nice roundup here!

I have probably put more hours into TSB on both the SNES and Genesis than any other video game in existence. I still have all my old hand-written stats books as well, lol.

Holy Crap! I didn't know the "Madden Ambulance" was a thing until I saw it here today! That's hilarious! They need to implement that in modern Football games!

This video would qualify as a war crime in Wisconsin. 🧀

Total length of video: 718 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": .5 secs. .07% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

Tecmo Super Bowl 3 is BY FAR the best. You can create players, simulate through seasons, pick up free agents, change your playbook (before the game), change/sub out players.

I had QB Club '96 (ranked #2 in this video) and I remember training my kicker over and over to build his stats so I could FG from 65 yards away! Loved that game.

Man, after having played a bunch of these SNES games, then Madden and NFL Quarterback club for 64, NFL Blitz was such a huge awesome departure.

I remember renting ABC Monday Night Football back in the day. I actually found out that with one of the post route plays, if you kept running backwards with your QB until your guy ran into the right side of the end zone and you threw it to him, he would get a touchdown every time. I was crushing the CPU 84-14 every game. Suffice to say, it was fun for one evening but once I returned the rental I never thought about it again.

Alot of people remember who Sterling Sharpe is lol he was to Bret Farve what Jerry Rice was to Joe Montana he's also Shannon Sharpe's older brother career cut short because of this injury but 1 of the best receivers of his era hall of famer

Troy Aikman was my jam. Playing the season allows you to level up the roster by earning money and spending it on the roster

Can the man that help get Brett Favre Career going Sterling Sharpe get some love.

*I remember Sterling Sharpe. He played for the GAMECOCKS of SOUTH CAROLINA. I went to his football camp one summer in hopes of learning how to be a kicker. There was nothing for kickers and he went absolutely mad yelling at us. Years later, his house was on my route and I delivered really expensive steaks to his porch every week. Peed on your steaks, homey, bon apetite.*

super high impact is basically the snes version of nfl blitz. Same play call system

Sterling Sharpe was a beast. I love your reviews, but you’re way off on Sterling.

There was a sports illustrated game that had both football and baseball. The football on that cart was my favourite football game on the SNES and the baseball was good enough.

Troy Aikman football was released in 1994 and remained the second best Football game on the SNES until maybe Madden 97/98 came out. You bash on it, but it had a lot more going for it than you give it credit for. It had: • a deep play book • the ability to create plays of your own • the ability to customize teams by increasing and decreasing the salary of your players in a balanced way. • Unlike the other games, including Madden titles, running both inside and outside was balanced and fair and fun. • The passing game worked. No windowed passing or tipped at the line like Madden and there were real concepts • the weather effects were a lot of fun. Rain, snow, grass and turf. When picking the best SNES football games, I would probably recommend this order: Madden 98 Tecmo Super Bowl (any) Troy Aikman football Seriously, give it a try and remember that it came out 4 years before Madden 98 and was doing things better than Madden 93-96 ever did.

It's really weird. My brother and I must have played Tecmo Super Bowl I & III for hundreds of hours. I always wondered what the hell happened to Tecmo Super Bowl II. We never saw it anywhere. It must have had a very limited release because coincidentally it's also (by far) the most expensive of the three.

Bring back tecmo bowel for the Nintendo switch.

NCAA Football is actually pretty decent. Not sure why you had trouble catching the ball, you just throw it in the direction of the player and they catch it, there's no secret. It's nice they went minimalist on the graphics because it meant the game ran smooth. The perspective also helps it run smooth because the SNES doesn't have to worry about scaling anything.

i never played EA NCAA Football '97 on SNES but it's surprising to hear how bad it was because EA NCAA FB '97 on the Genesis is one of my favorite video games of all time. Now that i think about it - it probably is my favorite video game of all time. Between it & Sonic 2, i'm not sure which i played more, but i can guarantee it's between those two games that i spent the most hours actually playing as a kid.

I came here to see if you would remind me of an old Football game I used to have for SNES, it was Stearling Sharpe End 2 End. Fun fact, The Niners on that game have a play, not sure what the play actually is called or anything but if you hit L then R you will do a hand off play that the AI doesn't know how to defend against, you just run it in for a TD every single time.

I read this video title as in how much they're worth financially, sports games are usually the first to fall into bargain bins, so I'd love to see a list on the most worthless games available.

I remember renting NFL Football with a friend. We thought the game was broken, it was SOOOOO slow. Just incredibly frustrating and tedious. It's amazing to me that anyone thought this was acceptable to release.

Suggestion for future videos of this nature. You should have a little annotation in one of the corners, simply reminding your viewers the name of the game you're currently talking about. I forgot so many times and had to skip back in the video to check again. Either that or time-stamps in the video description.

The big flaw in 16-bit Tecmo Super Bowl (and all the revivals since then) is that you can’t throw the ball more than like 30 yards down the field. It’s a lot harder to beat the CPU defense through the air because you literally can’t get deep. The end zone to end zone throws in 8-bit TSB were ridiculous but in a fun way. Also: Super High Impact was WILD in the arcade. Tons of fun.

Top 5 SNES Football games 5. 4:13 Madden '97-'98 by EA 4. 8:00 Super High Impact 3. 7:23 Sterling Sharpe: End 2 End by TOSE 2. 6:10 NFL Quarterback Club 96 1. 9:17 Tecmo Super Bowl 3

Snes drunk! Your reviews must take you hours and hours.... thanks for all the time and effort!

Would like to see other sports series like this one, baseball, basketball, soccer etc. keep it up!

SUPER HIGH IMPACT was always one of my favorites. I couldn't remember the name of it and was the main reason I clicked on this video. Been driving me nuts for years lol When ever I'm watching football and there's 2 BACK TO BACK SACKS I always yell I EAT QUARTERBACKS FOR BREAKFAST to this day lol THANKS for filling in the void 😁 lol

I adored Super High Impact, and I never liked football when I was growing up. That game made me appreciate it somewhat, and it definitely looks like one of the best games here. I remember the gameplay being surprisingly smooth, although that Tecmo football game looks great too. :)

sterling sharpe was a helluva receiver that without his injury wouldve had a better career than his brother shannon. BOTH would be in the hof now. i also had his jersey.

The reason why the ball is being batted down in Madden is because you’re throwing bullets by holding down on the throw button. If you tap it you throw high-arching rainbows that easily clear the line of scrimmage

I remember Sterling Sharpe. How could I not?... I know him personally. One of my best friend's older sister dated him while he was in college at the University of South Carolina; and they remained close after he left school for the NFL. After his neck injury, which forced him to retire, he worked for ESPN; and since I live in CT, he would visit my best friend's house on occasion, and I was always allowed to come over when he was there. I even have a picture with him from back in 1996. What sucks is had he not had the neck injury, which forced him to end his career prematurely, he would've easily been a top 10 all time NFL receiver. A year after his career ending injury, the Packers won the Super Bowl, so he would've had that accolade as well. Even Shannon Sharpe, his brother, said that Sterling was easily the most talented between the two.

One of the most OP kick return teams on SNES: The Los Angeles college team (likely UCLA but no license) in Super Play Action Football. I used to always pick them and avoid the whole hassle of having to play offense.

I do not even know how to play American football but still found this interesting. Good video.

Bill Walsh absolutely had real teams and rosters. Players are identified by numbers as is the case with all ncaa games. I would look into that a little closer if I were you.

3rd Tecmo Bowl game was my absolute favorite SNES game period. It was my old stand-by. I would play other games, experience the bigger and newer titles but always had Tecmo Super Bowl: III to fall back on. I probably put in thousands of hours on that game being an American military kid who lived off base in Germany. At the time the stat tracking and continuous career/season modes were unique. They were also the first game to introduce a hurdle animation that worked and the spin actually looked like a real football maneuver. Plus they had a crap ton of CAP slots where you could mix and match actual rosters, keep up with real world free agency and transactions, and even create big name rookies onto teams. Definitely makes me miss the side scroller football game design. I know it wasn't perfect for strategy but the presentation always seemed closer to actually watching a real game. The only Sega game I found that could compete with the Tecmo series as far as entertainment value was Joe Montana's Sports Talk Football II. Similar side scrolling presentation, a tiny bit of voice announcers, smooth gameplay, and pretty impressive graphics for the time but still nowhere close to Tecmo Bowl.

Now all NFL games are Madden. I miss the variety of NFL video games 😔

Tecmo 3 is not widely regarded in the Tecmo community...it's slower than the rest, takes forever to play a game...just not the same panache as the first one. You can make trades and create players but, meh...45 mins to play a game as opposed to 15.

I dont think those ESPN graphics looked bad, I think that game had the best graphics out of all of them.

Prime time with deion sanders!!!! That was my football game as a kid

Super Tecmo Bowl was the best football game ever made. That Houston Oilers squad was my favorite team to play with

Sterling Sharpe was on his way to the HOF before the neck injury.

5:28 my childhood game in year 1995. This game was on sale for $9.99 at KayBee Toy's Mall. Rest in peace, KayBee's, GameStop replaced you guys til this day.

"The Minnesota Vulcans! The Green Bay Hippos... Close enough!" Subbed at that!

Nice video, but I have to disagree with you on NCAA Football. I had (and still own) that game for years, and it's a very fun game. Now sure, it does have a steep learning curve for both passing the ball and kicking field goals, but once you master it (the passing at least), it becomes a very fun game. And honestly, there was a trick I learned and would always do on passing plays that would make a completion every time. So I would definitely give this game a second look if I were you, as it is probably the best college football game on the SNES.

Does anyone else find that Tecmo Super Bowl 3 lacks all the charm of the original Super Tecmo? There is no music during games, and what little music that exists pails in comparison to its Nes and previous counterparts. Even the big play cutscenes are worse. I can't stand it.

Super Play Action Football was a game everyone would come over and play at my house. My dad and brothers would often play it for hours, and sometimes even do tournaments, or I guess “playoffs.” Even I have nostalgia for it, but mostly just the music. So I was kinda surprised that you found it disappointing.

I remember Sterling Sharpe. He played for the Packers. And he's Shannon Sharpe's brother.

I love your reviews. You're on point and honest.

I'm always surprised by the frame rates back in the day. Also, Super High Impact had an exploit where you could select Suicide on D and sack the quarterback almost every single time.

From a non-US region, well PAL basically, our last good NFL snes game was Madden '94. I must've put hundreds of hours in that game and the only other i had was Donkey Kong Country. We never watched it coz it was never really televised but loved Madden '94. I used to do a Friday night weekly season to coincide with the NFL season and play my Superbowl in that first week in February. I can still recall i went back-to-back - 49ers beat Bengals then beat the Giants the following year haha. Mate good times!

First I find SNES drunk and enjoy the videos and now I learn he is a Vikings fan! SKOL!

Im subscribed just becoz you had the grace to put the ad at the end. I fuggin respect that. Thats proper hustle kids, thats how you do it with honor and consideration, for us. (Nonsarcasm)

In Madden ‘97 I believe Jax and Carolina were hidden teams, both ranked 99. In Madden ‘98 they were playable with actual roster and ratings. That may be the only difference, and updated rosters for the year. Ps. Sterling Sharpe caught the first NFL td I witnessed in real life lol!?! Great player for the Packers. I love your videos.

I had Pro Quarterback (and my stepsister had the Genesis version) and man, that game was the shits, I don't think I ever finished a whole game. And TIL that Super High Impact got ported to the SNES, I used to play the arcade version all the time when I was a kid.

I played a ton of Techmo Bowl on the OG GameBoy, SF was my team, there were two plays that seemed to always work. 1 pass play to Clark and 1 run for Rodger Creig always got major yards or scored. It was a fun game, Cincinnati even seemed a bit more difficult to beat when i would play against them and i swear some teams were better at "covering" certain plays but once you found the one that worked it was like that catch always happened or the run gap was always there as if to emulate the strengths and weaknesses of each team from the era the game is based on(mid-late 80's maybe early 90) It sounds like alot of programming and depth for a GameBoy game and it could have just been my young mind perceiving "depth" in the intricacies of Techmo Bowl😅 Great Video though 👍

The BEST of the SNES (& NES) football games was the SUPER TECMO BOWL II for NINTENDO and the SNES - SUPER TECMO BOWL game that offered the HALL OF FAME PLAYERS & the "make your own player option" after winning 3 SUPER BOWLS in a ROW.

OLD vid, new comment: I had Super play action football growing up. It was the only football game i owned, and i was a huge football fan, so I got to know that game inside and out. Here's a "fun" fact: The computer couldn't make any decisions. They could only follow a script. If they were on offense, the play would always happen the same way every time, throw to the same receiver, run to the same gap, every single time. And to top it off, each offensive play looked slightly different on the map. After you play defense long enough, you can literally memorize the formations, and where the ball will go EVERY SINGLE TIME. Games that were 100-0 were easy to accomplish. (but extremely tedious.)

I never cared for football but Super High impact and Sterling Sharpe caught my attention.

You should definitely do one on all the basketball games on the SNES! People always talk about NBA Jam only, but tecmo super basketball isn't half bad.

Pro Quarterback was the game that was ALWAYS available for rent at Blockbuster.

It’s kinda remarkable how well the SNES did in so many categories but seemingly struggled a fair bit with sports games. Some of those frame rates are amazingly bad, like filmstrip-freezeframe bad.

Awesome video. There are some titles on here I didn't know existed. Very entertaining and made me crack up 🤣🤣😭👍

Hate on NCAA Football all you want, I spent hours playing that game and still bust it out once in a while for nostalgia's sake. It's actually one of the simplest football games ever made and can explain the basic rules of football to a child. Admittedly, sometimes you can't make clean passes (Playing with rain or snow makes it even more so) so I just played the game in sunshine so you can actually make clean passes.

i agree, STB3 is the best football game on the SNES and maybe the best football game of the 16 bit era. tecmo was on a role with this and tecmo superbowl which i think is the best football video game period.

I remember Super High Impact and how cheesy it was. Thank you for making Tecmo as number one, because I loved those games. The last one was easily the best SNES AM football game.

4:38 LMAOOOOO YES!!! I REMEMBER THIS!

You didn't mention the best part of the Troy Aikmen game: you could make your own plays! Either way, the 16 bit era was a golden age for sports games. So many options.

Haha man I had NCAA Football and loved it. Was awesome to hear the music for it again!

Sterling Sharpe was a dam monster WR. Farve said his favorite WRs were Sterling and Sydney Rice

For some reason I have 2 copies of NFL Quarterback 96. I've never played either of them (I have a ton of snes sports games from my childhood), but I guess I'll try it out.

I grew up with Madden 98 and loved the create a player function, it’s very well done.

"In Soviet Russia, game plays YOU!" - 80's comedian Yaakov Smirnoff watching this video, probably

Hi SNES drunk, I really enjoyed your video and I agree with your opinion and your Top 5 picks, but I just want to let you know that you forgot to include Sports Illustrated: Championship Football & Baseball in which is both Football and Baseball games in one game. Also, I think Sterling Sharpe: End 2 End was actually the Worst and Hardest Football game for SNES. I also want to like Troy Aikman NFL Football as well. See You Later.

love these sports dedicated videos and wouldn't mind if ya did some for the the other systems

I know literally nothing about american football, but this was still an entertaining video

In the Sterling Sharpe game your QB was probably supposed to be "Warren Moon" so that explains the 3 interceptions in the 1st quarter! Anyways glad to see your a Vikings Fan, SKOL brother