Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)

Tecmo Super Bowl
Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Platform: NES Released in JP: December 13, 1991 Released in US: December 1991 This game has unused animations. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test.

To do: Unused stat screen. There might also be some other stuff buried in here.

It's Tecmo Bowl, but Super. Possibly the first sports game to license teams and players from the sport it was imitating!

Crash Handler

Like Tecmo Bowl, Tecmo Super Bowl has an unused crash handler. The entry point to this routine is hiding in bank 1A at offset 0x1A000 and the CPU address is 0x9A00.

Sound Test

At the title screen, hold B and press Left.

Unused Animation

To do: Rip sprites and add to page. There's more unused penalty-related stuff.

An unused referee animation for a planned False Start penalty.

Everything but the sprite in the video is added in as a mockup.

Developer Text

The game has a small credit at 0x3C139 for AKIHIKO, which is used as the game's SRAM signature.