Every true bro has played Tecmo Bowl at some point. Even if you didn't have Nintendo growing up, you either played it at your spoiled neighbor's house or at college with those guys in your dorm hall that tried to be old-school cool and smoked copious amounts of weed. Anyway, it is pretty much universally recognized as the first great sports video game and I think we all know why - because it incorporated the realism of being able to throw the ball much further than normal by running 40 yards backwards and then being able to give your teammate a towering high five after he made the improbable leaping grab between 5 defenders. If Tecmo doesn't put that high five in the game, I think we as a society eventually get bored playing sports video games and go back outside where we can actually celebrate scoring a touchdown. It was that important.
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