10 Yard Fight (NES) Review
System NES
Developer Irem Publisher Tatio Genre Sports # of Players 1-2 Release Date October 1985 |
Pros
Plays like an early football game Cons Gameplay feels slow Was not challenging |
Review
by Thonos
6/9/2015
Sports games are a big part of a consoles library. Love them or hate them sport games do sell well and every console gets a lot of them. The NES had a lot of good and memorable sports titles during its lifespan, some of which some people still play today. For being a launch title for the NES, 10 Yard Fight is not a bad game. But it is a game that has not stood up well over the test of time.
At its core 10 Yard Fight is a basic top down football game. The game does not allow for you to pick your plays. Offense receives the kickoff, run or pass the ball and if a touchdown is made kick the extra point. On defense you can pick to control one of two defensive players and you can tackle. On 4th down the offense can go for a field goal or punt the ball, however I never saw a option to do either one although I did see the computer do it a few times. Each game is broken into two 30 accelerated minute halves. If you beat the game on one of the games five difficulties the game has you start another game on the next highest difficulty.
Being a launch title I'm not too critical of the basic graphics and sounds the game uses. The game play felt slow and while the game is very playable you could tell the game felt clunky. I got used to it but that is not the same as saying I was ok with it. The other thing I did not like about the game was how useless passing was. When it works its alright but most of the time the passes would get intercepted. I found success just running the ball with the quarterback all the time.
One thing I found interesting about the game was the difficulty. I played two games of 10 Yard Fight for this review, one on the high school difficulty and one on super bowl difficulty. On high school difficulty the computer beat me 7-14 and, besides interceptions, I was unable to stop the computer from marching down the field. On Super Bowl difficulty I was able to regularly able to stop the computer on 4th downs and I won 14-0. Now the computer did seem to act faster on the higher difficulty but the fact that I seemed to have an easier time on the hardest difficult of the game was odd. Now this might have been a one time occurrence and not normal of the game.
Overall the game feels clunky, looks bland and I did not find much of a challenge in the game. For a launch title it showed what the system could do and provided sports fans a game to play. Other football games on the system played better and were just more fun. This is a game for collectors or people who like football games no matter how old they are.
The game supports two players however that was not tested in this review.
by Thonos
6/9/2015
Sports games are a big part of a consoles library. Love them or hate them sport games do sell well and every console gets a lot of them. The NES had a lot of good and memorable sports titles during its lifespan, some of which some people still play today. For being a launch title for the NES, 10 Yard Fight is not a bad game. But it is a game that has not stood up well over the test of time.
At its core 10 Yard Fight is a basic top down football game. The game does not allow for you to pick your plays. Offense receives the kickoff, run or pass the ball and if a touchdown is made kick the extra point. On defense you can pick to control one of two defensive players and you can tackle. On 4th down the offense can go for a field goal or punt the ball, however I never saw a option to do either one although I did see the computer do it a few times. Each game is broken into two 30 accelerated minute halves. If you beat the game on one of the games five difficulties the game has you start another game on the next highest difficulty.
Being a launch title I'm not too critical of the basic graphics and sounds the game uses. The game play felt slow and while the game is very playable you could tell the game felt clunky. I got used to it but that is not the same as saying I was ok with it. The other thing I did not like about the game was how useless passing was. When it works its alright but most of the time the passes would get intercepted. I found success just running the ball with the quarterback all the time.
One thing I found interesting about the game was the difficulty. I played two games of 10 Yard Fight for this review, one on the high school difficulty and one on super bowl difficulty. On high school difficulty the computer beat me 7-14 and, besides interceptions, I was unable to stop the computer from marching down the field. On Super Bowl difficulty I was able to regularly able to stop the computer on 4th downs and I won 14-0. Now the computer did seem to act faster on the higher difficulty but the fact that I seemed to have an easier time on the hardest difficult of the game was odd. Now this might have been a one time occurrence and not normal of the game.
Overall the game feels clunky, looks bland and I did not find much of a challenge in the game. For a launch title it showed what the system could do and provided sports fans a game to play. Other football games on the system played better and were just more fun. This is a game for collectors or people who like football games no matter how old they are.
The game supports two players however that was not tested in this review.