Super Tecmo Magic*
Posted: September 18th, 2009 | Filed under: Other Sports | 20 Comments »
Yes, there have been other wonderful and hilarious Tecmo moments on You Tube before. But for some reason, this one tops them all for me. Maybe it’s because I have never quite rid myself of my Cincinnati Bengals fascination … and my never-ending amazement at how Bengals things will always go wrong.
*Brilliant Reader McKingford points out, rightly, that this actually comes from Super Tecmo, the big brother to Tecmo Bowl.
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Technically, this comes from the technically superior, but sentimentally inferior, Super Techmo…
How many wins for the Browns this year Joe?
I say 5.
My sentimentality goes with Super Tecmo, as I did not have the previous incarnation. Still remains my favorite football game of all time.
If you haven’t seen it, don’t miss the Tecmo Bowl + Oregon Trail parody that’s floating around with Favre, Plaxico, Vick, etc.
In case you, or the Brilliant Readers, have never seen it, there is a RBI Baseball spoof of game 6 of the 1986 World Series, with Vin Scully calling the action. Truly hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-GgbP9C9Zk
or search RBI Baseball 1986 World Series on YouTube
Bengals fan from NY here.
I was listening to that on Sirius, and it was stunning, but because it involved the Bengals, not really stunning.
Anyway, if they beat GB this week, then I’ll call it even. One loss we should have won, and one win we should have lost.
But if we lose to GB, then the injuries will probably start and we then have a typical Bungles season.
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How awesome is Gus Johnson? This play wouldn’t have been half as cool if Joe Buck had called it.
I have to disagree with you Dave E. While not being too overly dramatic on this play for his standards (yelling into the microphone with all his energy for ages as he bursts all the veins in his forehead). I, for the majority of the time, can not stand Gus Johnson. Some people will criticize announcers for either being too enthusiastic or too nonchalant about the game they’re calling, Denny Matthews of the Royals comes to mind regarding the latter (not my opinion).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those people that always favors the laid-back delivery of action. I just can’t bear to listen to Gus Johnson. His enthusiasm is absolutely incredible, but I just don’t have enough energy to listen to him for over the course of a broadcast. I don’t need an announcer to treat every possession as if the game is on the line, I did that when I was eleven (it was exhausting and not productive). I completely appreciate his enthusiasm, but I don’t need the headache that typically comes along with it. I don’t want my lasting memory of a certain play to be due to the yelling voice of Gus Johnson that will never escape my eardrums.
However, I do agree that the play wouldn’t have been as cool if Joe Buck would’ve been calling it, even if Gus would’ve had a screamgasm right into the laps of the viewing audience, I still would take Gus. I can’t stand Joe Buck, I can’t stand him during NFL games, and I can’t stand him during MLB games. I will take Gus Johnson with the terrible Solomon Wilcots over Buck with anybody.
Mainly, I want my point to be taken that Gus Johnson usually sucks and that Joe Buck always sucks. Thank God I’m not an NFC East fan so that I don’t have to hear him and Aikman every single week.
Awesome play. Let’s not give Orton too much credit, it was a shit throw, if he led the receiver the way he was supposed to on a throw like that, he would’ve had the same result.
Tecmo Super Bowl is the greatest Nintendo game ever, in my opinion. Maybe because the Chiefs were so dominant with DT, Neil Smith on defense and the Nigerian Nightmare doing his thing on Offense.
I always felt that Bo Jackson was the best offensive player in that game, and DT was tops on D.
Man I miss the original Nintendo. Sigh…
Totally agree with Josh on Gus Johnson.
The next correct spot Gus Johnson calls will be his first. Football announcers who cannot get the spot right are in the same class as baseball radiomen who go ten minutes between score and inning updates (John Sterling, for example). This kind of basic technical incompetence ticks me off.
I agree with Mike (#10); Orton’s first throw that possession should have been picked and that throw should have been picked. Orton does not have the arm to throw a deep out; Bengals completely choked.
So can you get Super Tecmo to do a deflection like that, or do you just have to run that play 200 times until it happens?
And if you don’t like Gus Johnson, you don’t like joy.
To wit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkiM3tBJVhk
“SORRentine!… hit that one from the PARKING lot!”
First, I love Gus Johnson. I understand if he’s a little too much for some people, but there’s nobody I’d rather have call that play.
As for Kyle Orton, ugh. UGH UGH UGH. One of the worst starting quarterbacks in the league manages to get lucky like this over and over again. As somebody who lives in Chicago and regularly watches Bears games, dealing with this guy and idiotic Bears fans who thought he was good was insufferable. Kyle Orton is to quarterbacking what Yuniesky Betancourt is to, well, all those things Betancourt is bad at but some people think he’s good at. I can’t tell you how many times Orton did things exactly like this with the Bears, and like this play, it turned out ok for him.
I feel for Broncos fans. Because of their new assclown head coach (I am, first and foremost, a Patriots fan. And I can’t stand McDaniels), they traded away a Top 10 QB for a guy who is one of the more decent backups in the league. Good luck with that.
Justin – score a Wii. Tecmo Bowl is like $5 (500 Wii points) on the Nintendo channel. The game(s) download directly to the console. Excitebike anyone? Oh yeah.
Just had to mention that I’m from Nebraska and my brother and I are big Husker fans. We had to watch NU lose that Va. Tech game on Saturday in dramatic gut-punch fashion.
But what’s really awful is that my brother (for reasons passing all understanding), is also a Bengals fan. Which means in the course of 6 days, he watched his favorite pro team and his favorite college team both give up 70+ yard pass plays with under 90 seconds to go to blow seemingly sure wins. That’s got to be some kind of historical record for regular-season football-related agony.
Gus is the best.
Tecmo Super Bowl is the single greatest Nintendo game ever and the greatest football game on any platform. The first to keep stats (I believe) for individual players. It was the precursor into the Madden world we live in now.
And please, friends, it’s Tecmo Super Bowl, not Super Tecmo Bowl or any egregious derivation thereof. Let’s honor the best by at least getting its name right.