Bill Walsh College Football

Bill Walsh College Football
Bill Walsh College Football
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Developer(s)	High Score Productions (Sega Genesis & Sega CD) ; Visual Concepts (SNES)
Publisher(s)	EA Sports
Platform(s)	Super NES, Sega Genesis, Sega CD
Release	Genesis NA: August 1993; EU: September 1993; Sega CD NA: December 1993; EU: March 1994; Super NES NA: February 1994;
Genre(s)	Sports ; American football
Mode(s)	Single-player ; Multiplayer

Bill Walsh College Football is an American football video game released for the Super NES, Genesis, and Sega CD. It is one of the earliest video games to deal with the sport at a college level and is built around the fame of coach Bill Walsh. The game was followed by a sequel, Bill Walsh College Football '95.

Summary

The game features 24 teams from the 1992 season and 24 historical teams. Because EA Sports did not acquire the licensing for the names of the more famous schools, these teams carry the names of the school cities and states rather than the school names.^[3]

1992 Teams

(non licensed college names listed in parentheses)

Arizona
Boston (Boston College)
College Station (Texas A&M)
Colorado
Columbus (Ohio State)
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Kansas
Miami
Michigan
Nebraska
Provo (BYU)
Pullman (Washington State)
Raleigh (NC State)
S.C. (USC)
South Bend (Notre Dame)
Syracuse
Stanford
State College (Penn State)
Tallahassee (Florida State)
Tennessee
Washington

Gameplay modes

Source:^[4]

Exhibition where you can play as any team from either the 1992 or historical seasons in a single game
16-team single elimination playoff with any team from the 1992 season.
16-team single elimination playoff with any of the all-time teams.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that the Genesis version of Bill Walsh College Football "provides the best sports action yet to be seen in a cartridge product". The magazine praised the AI as being "head and shoulders above any other sports game. Simply put, it reacts". Computer Gaming World concluded that while computer-based sports games remained superior, Walsh was an example of those that made purchasing a console "more than worthwhile".^[7]

References

^ "Game Review: Bill Walsh College Football". Mega. Future plc. September 1993. p. 47. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
^ "Bill Walsh Scripts New College Football Game". Inside Electronic Arts Sports Network. Vol. 2, no. 1. EA Sports. June 1993. pp. 6–7.
^ "Cart Queries". GamePro. No. 68. IDG. March 1995. p. 11.
^ Bill Walsh College Football Manual. EA Sports. 1993. p. 10.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^ Scott Alan Marriott. "Bill Walsh College Football (Super Nintendo) Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
^ Sutyak, Jonathan. "Bill Walsh College Football (Sega Genesis) Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
^ Poulter, Wallace (November 1993). "EA Comes Out With The Walsh". Computer Gaming World. pp. 96, 98. Retrieved 28 March 2016.