Super High Impact on the Genesis is one of those arcade-style football games that somehow makes pixelated tackles feel brutal. You pick your team (I always went with the Crushers—no real reason, just liked the name), and then it’s straight into bone-crunching plays where the camera zooms in just to show your guy getting flattened. The controls are simple—dive, stiff-arm, juke—but good luck pulling off a clean run when the defense swarms you like ants on a dropped hot dog.

It’s not Madden, and that’s the point. The plays are exaggerated, the hits are comically violent, and the announcer yells "HIGH IMPACT!" like he’s having a stroke every time you break a tackle. The nostalgia hits hard if you remember arcade cabinets, but even if you don’t, there’s something weirdly satisfying about how over-the-top it all is. Just don’t expect deep strategy—this is pure, dumb fun with a side of 16-bit chaos.