Name:	NFL Football series (8 titles) Joe Montana Football NFL Sportstalk Football NFL Sportstalk Football 2 NFL 94 NFL 95 NFL 96 NFL Prime Time 97 NFL Prime Time 98
Author/Vendor:	Sega
Released:	various
Type:	Sports (football)
Language:	English
Premise:	Sega's in-house pro football sim - a YACEG series that went with Joe Montana as its spokesman until the 1996 release, when the decision was made to use Deion Sanders instead.
Impressions:	The series got progressively better as time went on, and by the end could rightly be called a decent competitor to the Madden NFL series. I find its auto zoom mode quite irritating, but that's a personal pique.
Variations:	Joe Montana Football (1990, an obvious port of the 8-bit Master System game - old and forgettable) NFL Sportstalk Football (1992, also called Joe Montana 2, Joe Montana Football 92 - Sega's first football game to employ its "Sports Talk" feature, which gave you phenome-based running commentary during the game) NFL Sportstalk Football 2 (1993, also called Joe Montana 3, Joe Montana Football 93 - first use of the zoom feature which focused in on the action immediately around the ball handler during gameplay) NFL 94 (1994 by Double Diamond Studio, also called Joe Montana 4, Joe Montana Football 94 - the series finally starts to play like a decent football sim, featuring an overhauled game engine and making good use of digitzed sound samples) NFL 95 (1995 by Double Diamond Studio, also called Joe Montana 5, Joe Montana Football 95 - little more than a rehash of the previous year's release with some more tweaking of the game engine) NFL 96 (1995, no info or cart dump available - this does exist, folks, or at least the proto does.) NFL Prime Time 97 (1996, aka Prime Time NFL, NFL 97, Deion Sanders Prime Time Football - Joe Montana's endorsement is ditched for Deion Sanders' in this highly regarded YACEG) NFL Prime Time 98 (1997, aka NFL 98 - little changed from its predecessor)
Recommended Emu:	KGen 98