Guys' Weekend, Part 2: I Hate Nintendo Football

To waste some time on Friday night, Jeff and I tried playing Nintendo Super Pro Football at RJ's cabin. Neither of us knew the game, and there was no instruction manual. In order to learn the game, we decided to play together against the Nintendo. We figured we'd grasp the concept after running a few plays. We set it to "Beginner" and chose to play the Chicago Bears. We let the Nintendo play the Green Bay Packers.

It only took us a few plays to realize that we didn't have the slightest clue how this game was supposed to work. Every time we passed, it was intercepted. When we tried to run, the quarterback would try to toss a shuttle-pass to non-existent teammates. We regularly ended up in punt formation on second down. And when we actually wanted to punt on fourth down, our team instead tried to kick a field goal from our own 20.

Somehow, we managed to get a touchdown on the first game. I think we picked up a fumble at Green Bay's 10 yard line and ran it in. Of course we missed the extra point, but we were too ecstatic to mind. The final score was Chicago: 6, Green Bay: 100.

The next day was little better. We decided that the game probably used statistics from the real NFL teams (and the game was made in 1992). Obviously, the '92 Packers would dominate the '92 Bears. So we decided to play the Packers and make the Nintendo play the Detroit Lions. The result was a catastrophic Packers: 0, Lions: 77.