We’re wrapping up SB Nation’s Video Game week by asking our staff to give us the first football “game” they remember playing. Some of us are old enough to remember a time where video games didn’t exist, which is why we opened the question up to any type of football game at all.
Sure, some of us will mention an early version of a video game, but there were so many fun choices before holding a joystick — Are they still called joysticks? — was even an option.
Once I became a football fan, I was obsessed with playing anything I could find, but probably the first football game I ever played was a hand-held version that looked very much like this.