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{{Infobox VG |title = Computer Football Strategy
Football Strategy |image = Computer Football Strategy |caption = Screenshot of Computer Football Strategy |developer = Microcomputer Games Inc.[1] |publisher = [1] |released = [1] |genre = Traditional sports (Arcade football)[1] |modes = Single-player[2]
Two-players[2] |platforms = Commodore 64[3]
Atari 8-bit family[3] |requirements = 64 kilobytes of RAMCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). Many retired professional football players have been noted to be content while recapturing their former heroics on this computer game.[4]

Gameplay

The basic choice of teams span from the 1966 Green Bay Packers (the winners of Super Bowl I) to the 1982 Washington Redskins (the winners of Super Bowl XVII - the most recent Super Bowl as of the game's release).[3] The game uses a top-down perspective in order to properly simulate the football field.[3] The game shows the football field as a small, thin strip divided into ten-yard lines.[5] Four basic graphics (the blue players playing the role as the defense and the black players playing the role as the offense) are considered to be "simulated American football players.[5]" A notable criticism of the game is that having X's and O's would have been more realistic (because coaches use these in real-life football to write playbooks for the team players).[5]

Twenty different plays can be called from the scrimmage with ten different outcomes depending on the defensive alignment.[5] The display shows a minimal coverage of the action; with no movement by either the quarterback or the wide receivers.[5] A complete lack of "hurry-up" offences means that each pass takes 15 seconds of game time to complete.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
  2. ^ a b "# of players/alternative title information". GB64.com. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
  3. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference mobygames was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Advanced overview". Eli Tomlinson. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "Advanced game overview". Atari Magazines. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
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