Software:GFL Championship Football

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Short description: 1986 video game
GFL Championship Football
GFL Championship Football cover.jpg
Publisher(s)Activision
Platform(s)Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release1986
Genre(s)Sports

GFL Championship Football is a 1986 video game published by Activision. An exclusive sequel, GFL Championship Football II, was released for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3 in 1988.[1]

Gameplay

GFL Championship Football is a game in which the player receives a view from inside the helmet.[2]

Reception

Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Whatever one's feelings about the game, when the plus yardage and minus yardage is added together, this action/strategy game is a watershed design."[2] The magazine said that the game's unique pespective helped players understand the difficult job of running backs and quarterbacks.[3]

Reviews

  • Computer and Video Games - Jul, 1987[4]

References

  1. GFL Championship Football II (manual) (PDF) (Media notes). Activision. 1988-01-01. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lee, Wyatt (December 1987). "The Electronic Gridiron". Computer Gaming World 1 (42): 16. 
  3. "Christmas Buyers Guide". Computer Gaming World (41): 20. November 1987. https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_41/page/n19/mode/2up. 
  4. "Computer_And_Video_Games_Issue_069_Jul_87". https://archive.org/details/ComputerAndVideoGamesIssue069Jul87/page/n25/mode/2up. 

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