Football without the smelly dudes.

February 6, 2008 3:01 PM

When I was very young, my family had a TI 99/4A home computer. One of the games we had on it was this version of football. I need to find something like it.

The following features are what I really want:
- You don't control players directly. The most granular control is the play your team will run and maybe the players on it.
- I don't care about real NFL stats or teams.
- Anything emulatable by a recent MacBook is fine. I am capable of finding emulators beyond the SNES, NES, and C64 ones I have now.

posted by mkb to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Emulators. Can't find any ROMs tho.
posted by rhizome at 3:09 PM on February 6

Yeah, I don't think it's likely that I'll find any TI-99 roms, so that's why I asked for any other system as well.
posted by mkb at 3:14 PM on February 6

The Classic99 emulator has the Football cartridge built right in. It's fully licensed and legal, even, with a blessing from TI.

Have fun!
posted by Malor at 3:49 PM on February 6 [1 favorite]

Oh, I'm not sure any TI emulators run on the Macbook, but this will probably work OK through VMWare Fusion or Parallels.

If you can find a native emulator, you can probably extract the ROM from this distribution somehow. It's definitely in there!
posted by Malor at 3:51 PM on February 6

I recommend Field General. Should work fine in DOSBox. My brother and I would play this simulator for hours. One if the things we liked the best about it was the stats that it would keep.
posted by eafarris at 4:56 PM on February 6