| NFL | |
| Developer: | Atlus |
| Publisher: | LJN |
| Series: | National Football League |
| Composer: | Hirohiko Takayama[1] |
| Genre: | Traditional football simulation[2] |
| Modes: | Single-player, multiplayer (up to two players) |
| Platforms: | NES |
NFL is a 1989 football video game, developed by Atlus and published by LJN exclusively for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
This game was the first since NFL Football - released in 1979 for the Intellivision - to get an official National Football League license. Intending to loosely represent the 1988-89 season of the National Football League, the game uses the teams and play formations of that particular era while avoiding usage of the players' names, due to a lack of an NFLPA license, which was given to Tecmo's Tecmo Bowl.[3]
The player could play one of four options, either Interconference, AFC and NFC game or the Super Bowl (specifically Super Bowl XXIII). Along with the option to choose a package to play during the game, players can directly control the entire team at once. This game was one of the first NFL video games on a gaming system.[4] The game employs a Top-Down system for the actual gameplay and allows players to assign handicaps to a human opponent that is not as skilled as they are.
Allgame gave the game a 2.5 out of 5 rating in their overview.[5]