Computer Football Strategy

Computer Football Strategy (also known as Football Strategy[2]) is a 1983 computer game that simulates the National Football League from a strategic point of view. It was developed for the Commodore 64[2] and the Atari 8-bit family/[3] Many retired professional football players have been noted to be content while recapturing their former heroics on this computer game.[4]

Computer Football Strategy
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Developer(s)Microcomputer Games
Publisher(s)Avalon Hill[1]
Platform(s)Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, CP/M, TRS-80
ReleaseCommodore 64:
Genre(s)Sports (football)[1]
Mode(s)Single-player[2]
Multiplayer[2]

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). The game uses a top-down perspective in order to properly simulate the football field. 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 line of 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]

Reception

Football Strategy was a runner up in the category of "Best Computer Sports Game" at the 4th annual Arkie Awards.[6]:33

References
  1. "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
  2. "# of players/alternative title information". GB64.com. Retrieved 2011-03-24.
  3. "Computer Football Strategy". Atari Mania.
  4. "Advanced overview". Eli Tomlinson. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
  5. Brown, Dale F. (July 1984). "Two Games of Strategy". Compute! (49): 72.
  6. Kunkel, Bill; Katz, Arnie (March 1983). "Arcade Alley: The Best Computer Games". Video. Reese Communications. 6 (12): 32–33. ISSN 0147-8907.
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