Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football

by GameBoy

Product Features

• fun to play

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MP11
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 1, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,243 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football combines the diverse elements of player development and team management to create a challenging football game in an arcade-style format.

Designed for the Game Boy Advance, SI4K: Football offers multiplayer support, so kids can compete against each other via the separately sold link cable. Unlike other games that sport professional league and player licenses, here kids create their own teams from scratch, choose the names and uniforms, and then trade players, if desired. The game rates athletes on strength, speed, and agility. Stats improve through play to advance the team overall.

As players improve, so do the special effects. Smoke and flames fly from the feet of a player who gets faster. That's just the beginning--successful play unlocks secret bonuses, such as stadium improvements and rookie cards for your all-star players.

Exclusive Game Code

Enter the season mode from the opening menu. After creating a new team, choose the cheat code option in the team management menu. Enter the cheat code RZONESTAR to unlock one of the game's superstars, who you can then add to your team.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wait it out for a different game..., October 29, 2001

By 

Jose Sierra "Emperor Monkey" (Boca Raton, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football (Video Game)

This game is slow, predictable, and very much a "kid's game"...

Granted, the title should've clued me in, but I've run across quite a few games that were originally intended for children that I've enjoyed very much. This, however, really isn't one of them.

Don't get me wrong, the retro style graphics and gameplay brought me back to the days of the ol' PC game "4th And Inches", but really don't stand up to expectation with all the really attractive titles out there right now. I mean, Joe Montana Football was one of the greatest football games ever, and while I'm not saying that it should necessarily be brought back (make way for the new and all that) the expectation is that the game will at least LOOK like something more interesting that a mess of hard-to-differentiate pixels blinking across a green field.

Play calling and execution is frighteningly simplistic and sometimes quite frustrating, the players move molasses-slow, and there's no such thing as the onside kick. On the positive side, you can straight-arm other players. But that's really it.

My recommendation is that unless you're an 8-year-old, or want to play a very, very simple football game, skip this one. Madden 2002 is coming out soon, and promises to be quite superior to this. When I first picked this up, I thought "how bad can this be?" and that it would tide me over until the real sports games surfaced. Not so. I'm utterly disappointed. The only reason it got 2 stars instead of one is the whole "retro" value (I really loved 4th and Inches).

I'm not sure what I expected, but it really, REALLY wasn't this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars IT IS A HORRIBBLE GAME!, December 16, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football (Video Game)

The graphics stink and you have no clue how to run the plays.
I was soooooo dissapointed. Wait for another football game to come out!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, December 28, 2001

By 

"jeffba88" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sports Illustrated for Kids: Football (Video Game)

Not what I expected for $.... Blocky graphics that take me back to the days of Colecovision. Even if you are remotely interested in this one, wait a month til it's on the 9.99 rack. I want my money back!