NES Play Action Football

NES Play Action Football

NES Play Action Football is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was a first party game designed by Nintendo itself, and was released in 1990. This game was highly impressive for it's time. For starters, the game featured ten real teams from various cities to choose from, each team featuring all the actual players that were on the team in that time period. The game used an isometric view, presenting the game at an angle to make it appear 3D, and the game allowed a very large amount of moving objects (namely all the players) to be on-screen at the same time before the system couldn't handle it. In a typical NES game, few moving objects could be onscreen before they all started flashing because the system couldn't render them all at once, but NES APF managed to avoid this somehow and allow the system to render two entire football teams onscreen simultaniously. Another ahead-of-its-time feature in the game was real voices. NES APF was one of an extremely small amount of games to feature voices. Most games never bothered to feature this because of the primitive sound capabilities, but in NES APF, you hear the refferee say in a real voice "Touchdown!" or "First down!". You can even hear the football players yell "Ready! Hut, hut.." before the play begins.