Saturday, March 11, 2017

Retro saturdays and nfl blitz

When released, nfl blitz was quite a ground breaking game. Despite the fact it was pretty much nba jam for football, it was a breath of fresh air to arcade and football games. If you have never played nba jam or nfl blitz, there are a lot less rules so by that basic formula it equals more fun. Everyone on the  field looks like roided up cartoonish versions of nfl players, it is 7 on 7 compared to 11 on 11. It takes 30 yards to get a 1st down instead of 10, pass interference is non existent among with roughing the passer, you can easily hurdle for yards and 50 yard bullet passes are common. Nfl blitz is a more extreme version of football so it was a hit

I only played it at the arcades and rented it a few times at hollywood video but I never owned it. The game is still fun to play once in awhile even though midway released a new version every year and the formula got stale


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