This evening I went to a friend’s house and, among other things (like eating pizza), played Tecmo Super Bowl. This classic Nintendo game from 1991 was a huge part of my childhood. We used to go over to another friend’s house and play for hours and hours. Good times.
The game brought back a lot of fun memories. The graphics and sound were just as amazing as we remembered. Also, I was probably about as bad as I used to be. Okay, I was probably better than I was today. I won 1 game out of… 6? 7? I sure hope I was better than that all those years ago…
By reading the title of this post you might incorrectly assume that I have wasted days and days playing this “line rider” game. I say that would be an incorrect assumption because the actual amount of time wasted has been at least 2 weeks.
And I’m lying. I’ve actually only spent 10 or so hours playing it.
Those 10 hours, though, were all in one day.
But I haven’t played it since. Because it is incredibly addicting. One of these days I will take a video of the track I created and put it up for all to see. For now I’ll just put someone else’s video up.
This really puts the ski stunt simulator to shame (though in the ski stunt simulator’s defense, they are rather different so it’s unfair to compare them). You can find more line rider videos on youtube.
Now the skills of someone who has either spent a really long time playing with the game, or is the creator of it. I don’t know which it is, but it’s amazing.
Part of me wants really badly to play the game for hours and hours until I’m really good at it. Another part of me, which fortunately for me has a stronger voice, is content just watching this video.
Posted by Ryan
November 26, 2008 
