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I loved my Coleco Electronic Quarterback. It was amazing how just a few moving LEDs could be filled in by the imagination to be a full football game. I had mo

• fuball63 8y ago
  I played one in the 2000s and loved it; odd that it aged as well as it did.
• MegaDeKay 8y ago
  Ditto! Even though I learned the patterns (on my own pre GameFAQs!) so that I was pretty much unstoppable on either the run or the pass, I put a lot of time into that game. Pro tip: run by putting your thumb just over the bottom right corner of the button instead of just mashing the button in the middle. The button clicks easier and you can go faster. And I had that robotic arm from Radio Shack as well! So cool!
• vidarh 8y ago
  Modern football and soccer video games have gotten to the point where to me (as someone not interested in watching either) they feel more like interactive TV than games. The simple game mechanics of those old games meant you didn't need to care about the subject matter of the game all that much. I even used to play some text based game about managing a football team quite a bit even though I had no interest in football and no interest in the teams back then, because it was a decent resource optimisation game, and the setting was secondary. I can see how people who do care about the game and the teams can enjoy the modern ones, though, but they're just entirely different categories of games.