NFL Football (video game)

NFL Football
Intellivision cover art
Developer(s)Mattel
Publisher(s)Mattel
Designer(s)Ken Smith
Kevin Miller[1]
Platform(s)Intellivision, Atari 2600
Release
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Multiplayer

NFL Football is a sports video game developed by Mattel and released for its Intellivision video game system in 1979.[2] The players each control a football team competing in a standard four-quarter game. Like Mattel's other sports video games, NFL Football did not use any official National Football League team names or player names, even though Mattel obtained a license from the NFL and used the league's logo in its box art. NFL Football has been cited as the first football video game to have a playbook.[3]

  1. ^ "NFL Football". IntellivisionLives.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  2. ^ "NFL Football". GameFAQs.com. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  3. ^ "Editorial". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 105. Ziff Davis. April 1998. p. 6.