

Still, since many of today's sports fans are too young to remember legendary names like Dan Marino and Jerry Rice, fans like founder "Knobbe" take it upon themselves to painstakingly update the game's roster every year for each of the game's 32 teams.

While the 1991 game was the first to include both the real teams and their real players together (thanks to official licenses from both the NFL and the Players Association), its true legacy as the classic gridiron football game has eclipsed this historical footnote a hundred times over. Tecmo needs no introduction: the NES classic has been the favorite of old-school football fans for thirty years now.
