Man, NFL Football on SNES takes me back—those chunky pixel players, the way the crowd noise cuts in and out like a bad radio signal. You pick your team (I always went with the 49ers), then it’s straight to the playbook with those classic ’90s play-calling screens. The running game feels a little stiff at first, but once you figure out the timing, breaking tackles with a well-timed spin move is stupidly satisfying.

Defense is where it gets chaotic—you’ll swear the AI cheats on higher difficulties, but nailing an interception and running it back feels like pure luck and skill colliding. And yeah, the graphics are basic by today’s standards, but there’s something about that overhead view and the way the players shuffle around that just works. If you’ve got nostalgia for this era or just want to see where football games started getting good, this one’s a time capsule worth dusting off.