NFL FOOTBALL VIDEO GAMES EVOLUTION [1972 - 2023]

[@TampaTec]

Madden was better when it had competition like ESPN 2k5. Now EA has a monopoly on NFL license.

[@ASimpsonsfanaticforBurns]

I've played Madden 2005 a lot recently, and it is the best football video game IMO

[@rice_goat80]

Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl are my favorites of all-time

[@letsroll03]

QB Club and 2k, what a step up but I still miss blitz.

[@MrBillybathgate5]

2k would own football games if ea didn't buy out the NFL license

[@cheffiki6111]

FOR REALLL

[@junsambajon6981]

2k is not playable ea is realistic dont always push 2k like nba2k, ea is always realistic get out of here

[@joshuabalondo4454]

@@junsambajon6981 ☝️you = EA fan☝️

[@romeske924]

@@joshuabalondo4454 agreed that guy you are referring to is definitely drinking that ea Kool aid 😂🤣

[@brennankinder1461]

@@junsambajon6981 the fact that ea has not changed significantly since madden 13 shows that they need someone to compete with. In those old 2k football games you had to makes sure your qbs feet were in the right position to throw an accurate pass. If you didn't run the ball the computer would start running real pass defense and the same goes with if you over ran the ball. In madden the are 2 or three routes that are gimme almost always gets you at least a first down, not in those old 2ks. If you call a certain d the offense would adjust and audible. In other words if you didn't truly know the game of football, you were getting your ass kicked 99.9% of the time. Now if you're simple minded and just wanna mess around yeah madden is perfect for you. Now in my opinion madden hasn't put out a good product simple Shaun Alexander blessed the cover

[@justinsmith6583]

1:48 That game is ABC Monday Night Football for the Super NES Made in 1993

[@rumplespliffskin]

If i hadnt been so ignorant, i wouldve realised those late 90s Quarterback clubs games looked so much more realistic than Madden. I'm sure I played a PC game in the mid to late 90s that could be best described as looking like Game Day 98. There was a first person mode and you could practice plays. I would kick field goals over and over again. I played a game in the early 90s (it was likely from the 80s) on PC where you just chose the play and you would be told how it went by text. There was an early 90s Tom Landry game too.

[@danieljohnson4530]

Remember first time I saw Gameday!!!! Blew my mind!!

[@chrisnotredfield662]

tecmo super bowl on nes, tecmo superbowl 3 on snes, madden 2005 and 2k5 will always be my top favorites. Me and my buddy played the hell out of madden 94 and the joe montana games too. Still miss nfl gameday on playstation and nfl qb club 96 on snes

[@BibleClinger]

I'm looking for a DOS football game released some time before 1993. It had a field drawn on the screen horizontally, somewhat in style to the games from the 70's shown here. You would enter plays by numbers, something like 1 for run, 2 for pass, etc. etc.. The play was entirely simulated, and the progress of the play was drawn on the field. No players were drawn, and you didn't get to control anything during the play. Does anyone know the title or developer?

[@wjlintz]

7:30 I remember playing Madden 99 and thinking, "It'll never get better than this."

[@Iconhulk]

Shit. . ... Espn Nfl 2K5

[@ExxylcrothEagle]

Damn right it never got better 🤠

[@cdw3088]

Then NFL 2K was released a year later 😮

[@Jason_Bover9000]

​@@Iconhulk that game was amazing

[@Jason_Bover9000]

I miss collage football games

[@dr.kennethspeers8014]

Played madden, gameday, qb club, blitz, and ncaa depending on whose house I was at. All around the same time period and they were all fun. I hate the monopoly on football games. Don't think anything was quite as awesome as Madden 01 on PS2 when it first game out though.

[@ThreeKing74]

Joe Montana Football on the Genesis was SOOO UNDERRATED

[@Luke18_13]

Finally someone speaking some facts! Game was incredible, especially for its time.

[@thehound1359]

Easily in my top 5 favorite football games.

[@thegentlemanphantom1040]

It was. But the pc version was even better and more underrated, didn't even make the list here lol. I loved that game.

[@Dangic23]

Legendary

[@Dangic23]

I still have my cartridge that I got for Christmas 1991. I got Madden for Christmas 1990, also still in my possession

[@JasonNation72]

As a 50 year old, Tecmo Super Bowl (1991) was my jam! I was never a Buffalo Bills fan but I always used team because Jim Kelly was accurate and Thurman Thomas always came through for me on the ground.

[@danieljohnson4530]

As a Bills fan, only team I would use!! Been that way always lol

[@MiketheCabbie]

Nope. L.A. Raiders and Bo Jackson, all the way!

[@patrickpowell1375]

"QB Bills" was awesome!

[@TheGodYouWishYouKnew]

You used the 2nd best team in the game all the time. You must have been annoying to play against.

[@fiveduece52]

Montana rice and Taylor with lott on defense

[@azamat19]

crazy how good ball phsysics look of the 2k games.... Sega really had something there. i cant understand why no game until today can get this as good as 2k did ?

[@alwynmalan1]

Great video! You missed the Unnecessary Roughness games from 93 to 96.

[@VGE]

Thanks

[@BrendanWoolwine]

Madden 18 was the last Madden game where I thought “Wow, this looks a lot better than before” Honestly 15 was the last BIG jump in my opinion. Gameplay though, it’s been hit and miss

[@tapytc]

You missed Sega's Prime Time with Deon Sanders. I played that. Memories.

[@tapytc]

I played Retro Bowl (19:43) on my android. It was really fun.

[@GeEmTeVe]

Tecmo Bowl was way ahead of its time. Look at those graphics in 1987.

[@lordesith1751]

I literally can't help but to smile watching this whole video this was super awesome

[@January_Cold]

NFL 2k5 was my last football videogame. EA and NFL exclusive deal turned me off forever.

[@matthewmensah481]

I've played football games long time ago!

[@neilsimmons9582]

The first Madden on Playstation 2 was revolutionary, saw it at Gamestop and remember wow this looks like real football lol.

[@AlBeQuirky]

That's how I felt at Electronics Boutique when I got to play the demo of NFL Quarterback Club '99, then once again seeing NFL 2k and then Madden NFL 2001 about a year later

[@TheChallenger1000]

I wasn't impressed at all. Thought the player models looked goofy.

[@dancarthen3634]

Xbox beat them to it. GameDay had the first polygon graphics for a NFL game.

[@TheChallenger1000]

@@dancarthen3634 XBOX didn't. XBOX never got Madden 2001, the first Madden on XBOX was Madden 2002.

[@sappyjohnson]

I had completely forgotten about NFL Quarterback Club. That was great for its time

[@TheSteveKinney]

The jump to nfl 2k was insane.

[@marcust6479]

That was the game changer... they blew cold air and had real gloves on real hands with fingers

[@kb.86]

Visors…..I always tell folks that NFL & NBA 2k on Dreamcast changed the landscape of sports games

[@marcust6479]

@@kb.86 facts

[@Beatles01able]

With respect to ALL these classics…. Madden. Period.

[@matthewmensah481]

Happy American Football Day 🏟️🏈 from VGE 🎮🕹️!

[@jj007104]

Tehmo Super Bowl....Joe Montana 2...Sports Talk Football 93...NFL 2k5 that is all you kids need to know

[@jamesonhills266]

lol the college ones I would turn the volume up because I wanted to hear that atmosphere the feeling of being at a real game

[@CSGOPOVDemosHighlights]

Backyard footbal is the best

[@ChrisTheWarrior94]

No NCAA 09-10-11-12-13-14? No Mutant Football League Dynasty Edition? No NCAA 2K2 on Dreamcast? No Madden NFL Arcade?

[@VGE]

Lot of games, hard to find full list. thanks, I will update

[@willbell2707]

Nfl street 2 is my all time favorite!

[@사라아빠베트남엄마]

3:00. Guys, let's be honest. The FPS series are amazing. I played 95, 97, and 98 and these games prove the following. The potential of electronic entertainment is infinite. If compared to a soccer game, it is at the level of combining Pro Evolution Soccer and Football Manager. Playing is like PES. PRE, play editor, GM, etc. are all shocking.

[@Homeoftheclan]

1994 a friend got John Madden Football and a Panasonic 3DO WOW at the time it was awesome

[@Therealozzycook]

Backyard football was hilarious

[@Hollowsmith]

1987 Tecmo Bowl was LIGHTYEARS ahead of any previous football game visually. Everything up until then looked like stick figure monsters. That was the first "actually looks like football" game.

[@kincamell2]

Much Gratitude Ps Dreamcast had some stellar sports games.

[@redpillsuccess5975]

We spent so many nights playing madden and gambling all night if you got down 21 points it was a blow out.

[@mike91mdk45]

My favorites : NFL 2K5 Madden '04/'05/'08 NCAA Football '04/'06/'14 Blitz : The League NFL Street 1&2 NFL Fever '02

[@wesleybutler9034]

Blitz 99

[@wesleybutler9034]

Blitz 2000 gold edition

[@wesleybutler9034]

Blitz 2001

[@wesleybutler9034]

Blitz 20-02

[@wesleybutler9034]

Blitz 20-03

[@jokersinurface]

Around 2013-2014 Madden has looked exactly the same.

[@Ernesto2004]

Awesome video

[@michaeladderley5180]

1997 missing Jimmy Johnson football...

[@ATLballer]

10 yrd fight in the arcade was soooooo fun

[@dolphinated]

NCAA 98 turned me into a fiend. Backbreaker would be the GOAT had they altered a few things.

[@Dangic23]

That Dreamcast one looks so smooth. Wow

[@game84cube]

The Dreamcast was a powerhouse for its time. It was basically the bridge between the PS1 and PS2 generation of games

[@Saveyourbs]

That X’s and O’s shit was ridiculous

[@tapytc]

The last game I played (for console) was Madden 64. Thankfully, I haven't played any of the new ones, having to spend extra dollars to play am incomplete game.

[@JBM425]

I’m glad you included Super High Impact football! It may not have been an NFL-licensed game, but it was the most fun. It wouldn’t be considered appropriate today because of some of the over-the top cartoon violence, such as a player rolling on the turf clutching his knee and moaning in pain, and the player who was hit so hard the uniform and pads exploded off his body. The Mike Ditka lookalike who “dropped trou” when your team made a bad play and the scantily-clad dancers/cheerleader might also have been axed. Even though the graphics are ancient by today’s standards, SHI was actually somewhat ahead of its time, and it is still a fun game to play at retro arcades.

[@bobbythespaceghost9934]

I had so many football games when I was younger. Techmo Bowl was my favorite, but I played NES Play Action Football the most. I can remember that came so vividly.

[@BriansConcertVideos]

NFL football games, but also, here's some college football and non-human football games.

[@RTBird2]

So many FUN football games in the early 90's...Mutant League Football, the Joe Montana Sports Talks, Front Page Sports Football ( Career mode, design plays, levels to injuries), heck, Madden was still fun...so long as nobody picked Detroit or Dallas. Barry and Emmett Smith were comically, controller throwing unstoppable. LOL

[@tonyduckett5315]

There was a move I did that made Emmitt run for the endzone. My nephew was ticked. Fun times.

[@VGE]

After the video on the evolution of basketball games, here is a video that traces the evolution of American FOOTBALL games since 1972. Have you played these games? Which one is your favorite? Do you know any other FOOTBALL games not listed here?

[@AlBeQuirky]

Played quite a few. Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl (Genesis) ESPN NFL Primetime 2002 (PS2?) NCAA College Football 2K2 Road to the Rose Bowl (Dreamcast) Mutant Football League (Xbox One) Those are just off the top of my head. Sorry if I mistakenly added any that were in the video which I overlooked.

[@thehound1359]

Madden ‘98 is my all time favorite.

[@matthewmensah481]

Happy National Football Day 🏈 from VGE 🎮🕹️!

[@thatguydj2334]

NFL Blitz Madden NFL 2005 2006 and NFL 2K2 and 2K5 blitz the league and nfl street has some memories attached 😢

[@WompWomp798]

Techmo Super Bowl was the genesis and SNES

[@Smoothie_The_Gamecat]

Football games I had played in my gaming life; Tecmo Super Bowl (my first) Madden 96 Madden 2000 (favorite) NFL Blitz (ps1/XBLA) Madden 2001 Madden 2002 Kurt Warner Arena Football ESPN NFL 2K5 (favorite) Madden 06 Madden 07 Madden 15 Madden 18

[@chefmarcos]

Front Page Sports football was fantastic. Great player editing and play creating capabilities. It was so much fun playing seasons.

[@Bellthorian]

Not to mention the CD came with something crazy like 30,000 plays on it.

[@BenvolioCapulet9]

I considered buying an old computer and putting xp on it just to play - it was my primary go to when taking a break from studying

[@Ace1Yoda]

When nfl 2k dropped Madden 2001 HAD to step they game up

[@trevorlambert4226]

The most recent I played was TV Sports Football (on Amiga) and Madden Football, both 1988.

[@mil2k11]

Cyberball was sick. I remember my friends and I stack $30-$40 worth of quarters at the arcade and run tournaments for a full day. It was right around the time when arcade companies were trying to pry 50 cents out of your hand for each game, so they needed to become more creative. Cyberball was able to achieve it with its dual screens on opposite sides of the machine.

[@ATLballer]

no tecmo bowl on the NES .............we used to play for money

[@ASimpsonsfanaticforBurns]

As a Steve Young fan, I wish he got his own game!

[@vegastjg]

What year was it that we could make our own plays on madden? They need to bring that feature back.

[@michaelfesinmeyer2061]

I played Intellivision NFL Football back in the day. You had to put a 4 number code in for each formation. NFL Challenge was a fun game for its time. Original Tecmo Bowl for NES and Tecmo Superbowl for NES were the Gold Standard. TV Sports football for the Turbo Grafx 16 was fun. Bill Walsh College Football was a favorite. NFL 2K5 might have been the best game out there when PS3 was the main next gen console. My dad and I used to play a PC game (Can't remember the name) that you had to put a game plant together based on % of types of plays you run (i.e. inside runs, outside runs, short passes, long passes, and who on your team and what % of time you would run them or throw to them)

[@robertrock8411]

Love these!!!!!

[@tidritblag9877]

The Johnson pass @11:30 just goes to show how accurate madden used to be

[@twa2]

Madden 2001 was probably the biggest jump up in quality in the history of the series.

[@alfredooliva5175]

Madden 64 was by far

[@kb.86]

2K

[@jeromeking3598]

In my opinion NFL 2K5, Madden 06, and NCAA Football 14 are the greatest football games to ever exist. You could make a really good case for Madden 11 which I believe had Drew Brees on the cover. After that Madden went downhill from there. NCAA Football 06 you could make a great case for, but 14 took all things missing from previous games and expounded on it.

[@AndresRodriguez-tu5tk]

Hey you forgot Kinect Sports: Season Two

[@fredstriker2042]

I used to play that Odyssey original football and absolutely loved it. Believe it or not it was competitive in its own right

[@joshuabacker8277]

Adding the publishers along with the title and system would be nice

[@davidg1612]

Beyond thrilled to see Quarterback Attack on here. Very cool.

[@gaipontiff2]

The Magnavox Odyssey 2 football game was not released in 1972 but rather 1978. First football game I ever played.

[@ReeseChown]

Why were loud sporadic bursts of white noise necessary in early games

[@jamiepruitt4125]

wait a minute!?? they didn't feature deion Sanders prime time football game on here??? that game was the stuff back in the day!

[@maplebear6527]

Deion Sanders Prime Time 97 for Sega Genesis, Madden 2001 for PS1, NFL 2K3 for PS2 and Madden 05 for PS2 were the all time best football games ever made.

[@velvetbear7184]

Seems like the games in the PS2 era had just as good. Or better graphics then the football games today in 2022!?!?

[@swirvinbirds1971]

The one thing good you can say about the Madden games is they are certainly the nicest looking of the games.

[@JfnDWatchesVids]

I LOVED Cyberball.

[@PrincePDaPrince]

BACKYARD FOOTBALL!!! Yoo I have football 2002, soccer, hockey, baseball, and basketball 2003 lol

[@seandupree8871]

Great video. It's a shame that as of right now all really have is Madden but football gaming has definitely come a long way. I'm old enough to remember playing TEN YARD FIGHT for NES and man that was rough

[@MWO737]

Great list, but why add NCAA games when the list is for NFL games?

[@tonyduckett5315]

The title should have been football video games since 1972 at the arcades in 90s was dope. High Impact Football Arcade Game.

[@KurisuBlaze]

The 'NFL' part was probably to get the 'this is only the Worse Football' guys to quiet down. I'm pretty sure the channel will soon bring out something for Association Football. (Hopefully in the later years it's not all just FIFA, PES, and maybe Football Manager. Probably not with Mario Strikers series in the mix.

[@Greenpill012]

I regret buying Switch after watching this

[@jamesonhills266]

NFL GameDay was interesting

[@neogenesis0038]

Jerry Glanvilles Pigskin Footbrawl was the best football game ever made...ever.

[@rgk99]

It’s so obvious just by this video that the NFL LICENSED game stopped improving when EA became the only developer.

[@Ma1q444]

Smh look at all the different type of football games they had

[@divinethought4808]

Nfl qb club graphically was a head of its time I use to buy them and thought the game play was a little lagging compared to madden but graphics wise it was killing it lol

[@Dmaccabees]

Tecmo Football was the best😁

[@alexfrankone]

Why isn’t Mutant Football League on here? That game is underrated, the players and teams have funny distorted names that sound like their names in real life 😂, example Tom Brady is Bomb Shady

[@bigsmurf7725]

Remake super high impact...best football game ever

[@Rolo555]

There was so many football games in the mid 90s.

[@AndresRodriguez-tu5tk]

Hey where's Kinect Sports: Season Two?

[@craxypackets]

NFL 2k5* >=Madden 2005*>OG NFL Blitz>OG Backyard Football>the rest * depending on whether you prefer true sim or arcade sim)

[@willobrien2251]

Football did not look like that in 1972. That was not until the late 70s with the Odyssey 2. 1972 version was way more primitive

[@d36williams]

Super Play Action Football 3:11 jamming music

[@robertcatania1120]

Tecmo Super Bowl on NES to this day is still my favorite football game to play. Not saying it's the best game, but it is the most fun.

[@OniKitsuneX4]

I was at one of them old school arcade places playing NFL blitz 2000 and I was like...this is fun.