| GFL Championship Football | |
|---|---|
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| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum |
| Release | 1986 |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
GFL Championship Football is a 1986 video game published by Activision. An exclusive sequel, GFL Championship Football II, was released for the TRS-80 Color Computer 3 in 1988. [1]
GFL Championship Football is a game in which the player receives a view from inside the helmet. [2]
Wyatt Lee reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World , and stated that "Whatever one's feelings about the game, when the plus yardage and minus yardage is added together, this action/strategy game is a watershed design." [2] The magazine said that the game's unique pespective helped players understand the difficult job of running backs and quarterbacks. [3]
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