About

Tecmo Heroes is a website dedicated to archiving our records on the hands down greatest sports game of all time — Tecmo Super Bowl. Built in the spirit of tecmogeek.com, seeded from the records originally archived at tecmoheroes.com.

All records here are multi-MAN seasons. No solo-season records are recorded.

The Story

It all started when a local neighborhood teenager introduced PJ to the game Tecmo Super Bowl in 1992 in Biloxi, Mississippi. After a few painful early defeats, he found his footing with the San Francisco 49ers and never looked back.

A copy arrived in 1995 and the next five years were spent grinding seasons. College put the cartridge to bed for a while, until 2009 — when PJ brought the original Nintendo Entertainment System to his dorm and reintroduced the game to a new audience.

That dorm crew became the league. We've been recording season stats every season since, keeping track of records, Super Bowls, and MVPs. Hardware stayed Nintendo-based until the planned migration to AVS in 2023.

The Rules

Guidelines for a successful weekend of Tecmo, draft methods, the tier list, and play-tempo conventions all live on a dedicated page — see The Rules.

The Stats

After every season — or between the regular season and the Super Bowl — we record the stats of most of the leaders on each team. The raw numbers live in a Google Sheet; this site is generated from a snapshot of that workbook.

In cases where a value exceeds the in-game maximum (single-season rushing or passing TDs, for instance), the figure is either captured after every game or determined mathematically. Example: add up all receiver touchdowns on a team, subtract the backup QB's thrown touchdowns, and you have a derived total for the starter.

Stat Maximums

  • Passing yards: 6,200
  • Rushing / Receiving / Return yards: 4,095
  • Passing / Rushing / Receiving TDs: 63
  • Rush Attempts (single season): 255

Record Format

In general each record is presented as: Tecmo Player, ### Statistic, Team, Player, Season (Year). The Tecmo profile card shows the in-game name; the round avatar shows the real NFL face that lent the legend.

Adding Records

The data lives as JSON in data/, regenerated from Tecmo Statistics Current.xlsx via python3 scripts/convert-xlsx.py. For one-off entries, npm run ingest walks you through a new record interactively, and npm run ingest:rebuild chains a static export afterward.