E.A. Sports. Its In The Game.

Are You Getting the New Madden? Vince Young is on this year's cover. He's already missed a game for violating team rules by not staying in the team hotel. Will the Madden Curse continue?

What is the best sports video game of all time? I would have to agree. Tecmo Super Bowl was an extremely addicting game. I remember my brother and I playing the regular season mode. You would have to check you players' status on the roster, hoping that they were in "excellent" condition. If you had a key player injured, and you thought that he should be back the next game and wasn't simply restart the game and sometimes he would return from the injury.

The playbook was only eight plays (four for the original one). There was this one play that worked about 95% of the time. In fact it worked even better when the other team picked the same play and blitzed you because the tight end was always open over the middle. My favorite team was the 49ers. Joe Montana to Jerry Rice was unstoppable. Jerry could catch anything. I think John Taylor was the other wideout. On defense you had Ronnie Lott and I think Charles Haley. The computer was decently good at cheating during the game, by allowing the other team's RBs to run ridiculously fast, but if you really wanted to guarantee your win you could cheat by going into their playbook before the game started and changing all of the plays to ones you could easily stop.

If when you had the ball you ran in a zig-zag it would almost guarantee you the ability to outrun all of the defenders. The hail-mary pass was also an option. Simply hike the ball, keep running backwards until your receiver is out of the screen (and all you see is that arrow) then toss it. More often than not you'd end up with a catch. Oh the memories. When playing my brother we would hide our controllers under a pillow so that we could guarantee the other wasn't cheating by seeing what play was being picked. Randall Cunningham was the Michael Vick back then, and Barry Sanders, Lawrence Taylor, and Reggie White were all equally unstoppable.