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From: uggbrand@cs.Buffalo.EDU (G. Brandon Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: TV Sports Football
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Date: 27 Jul 89 22:22:31 GMT
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Reply-To: uggbrand@cs.Buffalo.EDU (G. Brandon Brooks)
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   I'm writing a letter to CinemaWare about their TV Sports Football,
concerning whether or not they will be releasing an updated version for
this years and for future NFL seasons.
   I would also like to tell them all the 'bugs' or 'quirks' with the game
that I have found. If anyone has found anything else besides the dozen
that I mention here, please respond so I can include those in my letter.

(1) The QB (or any player, really) can run BEHIND their endzone off the
    bottom of the screen without being called for a safety.
(2) If a team is very near the scoring endzone, like on the 1 or 1/2 yard
    line, and the other team commits a penalty, the ball is placed IN the
    endzone a few pixels. Upon hiking the ball, the computer endlessly
    repeats 'TOUCHDOWN' which forces you to reboot the computer.
(3) Time stops sometimes and othertimes doesn't after kickoffs.
(4) You CAN catch a ball out-of-bounds
(5) If any team scores within the final minute of the game, the computer
    responds 'xxxxx SCORES THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN'. The scenerio:
    My hometown Buffalo Bills are trouncing those panzies the 49ers 45-0
    late in the 4th quarter. With 3 seconds left - on a fluke play - the
    49ers have enough OOMPH to put the ball in the endzone. The 49ers score
    the 'winning touchdown' whereby losing the game 45-6. (after missing
    the extra point)
(6) Simple plays in the NFL that take 6 seconds seem to take 24 seconds in
    TV Sports sometimes.
(7) You CAN'T call a timeout after you've already chosen a play.
(8) You CAN'T call a timeout or even SEE the time remaining when you
    are on the playing screen.
(9) If the QB hands off JUST BEFORE he is tackled by an oncoming tackler,
    you see the ball lateral across the screen, but then the play is blown
    dead and recorded as a sack. Perhaps you could call this 'in the grasp'? :)
(10)If you try and down the ball in the endzone after catching the ball after
    a punt or kickoff, the computer responds "DON'T BE A WIMP! GO FOR IT!".
    If you try being a wimp, the other team tackles you for a safety.
(11)Scoring doesn't occur in the correct quarters sometimes. My opponent
    once caught me for a saftey in the last play of the 1st half, and the
    computer placed those 2 points in the 3rd quarter.
(12)The disk drive never stops whirring when you are designing teams

Anybody have anything else they found?

		-Brandon!