Tecmo Bowl

Tecmo Bowl (テクモボウル tekumo Bōru?) is an arcade game developed and released in 1988 by Tecmo. While moderately successful in the arcades, the game became and remained widely popular and remembered when it was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989. The NES version was the first console game to feature real NFL players. Although LJN's NFL was the first NES game to feature NFL team names, it didn't turn out as successful as Tecmo Bowl. Due to this factor, along with the scarcity of the arcade version, the NES version eclipsed its arcade counterpart in popularity. The NES version was ported to mobile phones in 2004 and the North American Wii Virtual Console on March 12, 2007. The arcade version for the Virtual Console came out in North America on August 3, 2009 and Japan on September 29. The original arcade version of Tecmo Bowl appears in Franklin &amp; Crash.