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The National Football League represents the highest, most elite level of gridiron football, one of the most popular pastimes in the United States. With thirty-two franchises spread across the country, the NFL is beloved from sea to shining sea. Of course, most of its influence stems from watching the games - people love to see superstar athletes square off against one another in their primes in an intense, strategic, and brutally physical game. Beyond TV and stadium seats, though, the NFL makes its mark through video games, as well. NFL video games allow for a wide range of depictions of America’s most popular sport, along with allowing fans to become their favorite player or take their chosen team to the Super Bowl. Thanks to an exclusivity contract with EA, NFL video games today overwhelmingly come in the form of new Madden entries, but MyEmulator has documented a wide history of excellent retro NFL video games from days long past, ranging from a wide assortment of retro Madden titles to plenty of other adventures in football.

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To start off your video game football adventure, where is a better spot to start than Tecmo Bowl? It’s one of the first football video games and is the very earliest to include real NFL players thanks to the publisher licensing agreement with the NFL Players Association. While very limited by today’s standards, Tecmo Bowl’s four-play playbook created a bit of a Rock-Paper-Scissors approach to strategizing for the game. It was a darn good time back in the day and is still worth a look nowadays.

After some Tecmo Bowl, you may as well try out the biggest franchise in NFL video game: Madden. The Madden series spans a few decades at this point, but it’s still a pretty recognizable formula no matter which version you check out. Playing older versions of Madden can be a ton of fun, especially if you like seeing older teams and players in action. MyEmulator has a handful of retro Madden titles for you to try, ranging from Madden 64 (Nintendo 64, not 1964) to Madden 2002 through ‘07 on Game Boy Advance. You can also check out the DS version of Madden ‘06. If you’ve got a favorite team that had a few star players during that timeframe, it’d be a great time to check some of these out.

While this page is about the NFL, you can also dive into a couple of college football games; after all, college football provides almost all of the talent that eventually makes its way into the NFL, and it has plenty of lovable traditions of its own. With our emulator online, you can ride the road to glory in Bill Walsh College Football or College Football USA ‘96, the latter of which was the first college football game to feature real teams and bowl games.

Finally, for a more arcade-centric experience, try out NFL Blitz 2000. While the above games try to create realistic depictions of gridiron football, the NFL Blitz series throws that out and instead tries to be as over-the-top and downright fun as possible. Guess what – it works very well. Once you’ve got an understanding of football, seeing the game completely shattered by super-powered players is really quite a treat.

Why play NFL games?

  • Tecmo Bowl is one of the earliest and most popular NFL games available
  • Older entries from the Madden series act as time capsules from an earlier age in the sport
  • You can explore college football video games to learn about the league where future NFL stars make their mark
  • NFL Blitz offers a spicier arcade take on the famous game