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Touchdown Fever

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Also known as
American Football Touch Down Fever タッチダウンフィーバー

A top-down arcade football game featuring 12 teams, multiple formations, and head-to-head or co-op play.

Touchdown Fever is an arcade game released by SNK in 1987. The NES version was released in Japan on February 19, 1988. The legacy year 1987 refers to the arcade original, not the NES version.


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Released
1988
Original release
1987
Genre
Perspective
Top-down
Size
160.02 KB
Rating
0 votes

About Touchdown Fever

Touch Down Fever presents a top-down, vertically scrolling interpretation of American football. Matches follow standard scoring rules across four quarters, with quarter lengths configurable to five, ten, or fifteen minutes. Victory is determined by the team with the most points when time expires.

The game offers twelve teams, divided evenly between East and West conferences, though they represent NFL cities without official league or player licensing. Players can engage in single league matches or tournaments, competing against the computer, a human opponent, or cooperating with a partner against CPU-controlled teams.

On offense, play selection is organized around five primary formations, covering long and short passes, quarterback sneaks, running plays, and special teams actions for kicking or punting. Defensive control is more direct, allowing the user to switch between two designated players before the snap, with no specific defensive formations to choose from.

Touchdown Fever Screenshots

9 images
Intro
Title
Options
Getting ready...
Catching the ball
Choosing moves
Turn over
Cup
Hey, where's the ball?..