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Dirty Pigskin Football
An over-the-top American football arcade game by Play Mechanix and Sammy, featuring a wide variety of bizarre teams (including zombies, aliens, and vikings).
Overview
Dirty Pigskin Football is a comedic over-the-top football game developed by Play Mechanix (Company) and released by Sammy for arcades (using Dreamcast (Platform)-based Atomiswave (Concept) hardware) in North America and Europe on September 10, 2006.
Similar to Midway's NFL Blitz (Franchise) series, Dirty Pigskin Football features a less-realistic, quicker-paced 5v5 arcade style of American football. It is known for its varied teams, including zombies, aliens, vikings, and professional wrestlers, for its even more simplified rules, and for its dedicated arcade cabinet with a joystick shaped like a football.
Although the game has not received any home conversions, it later received an unofficial port to the Sega Dreamcast due to its near-identical hardware.
Gameplay
It is a three-button game, one of which is a yellow turbo button. The other two have different uses:
- Red button - While on offense, throws to red receiver. Combined with Turbo to spin. While on defense, perform a diving tackle (with a cinematic Super Tackle when combined with the Turbo button).
- Blue button - While on offense, throws to blue receiver. Combined with Turbo to stiff arm. While on defense, changes the controlling player.
Like NFL Blitz, the game presents several changes to the sport of American football to keep it at a fast pace, namely the removal of several most rules/penalties, time-outs, and substitutions. In addition, it presents its own special rules and limitations:
- By default, the game has a single three-minute period, with no overtime.
- 5-player teams, down from the usual 11 of the sport and 7 of NFL Blitz.
- Rather than a kickoff, players start their first play at their 20-yard line and there are no first-downs, requiring them to score a goal within four downs of their possession.
- No conversion attempts after a touchdown. Instead, players score an extra point if a pass was used for the touchdown play.
- No punts or field goal attempts.
- No offsides penalty.
The game features a four-game "Season", where if players on a single team participate in all four matches (paying credits for each of them), they participate in a free fifth "Championship" match against a random team. Depending on how much they won from the four matches, they can be challenged by one of the hidden teams.
Teams
Each team has their own unique visual style, including their field, play names, and Super Tackle animations.
- Abductors (aliens)
- Ring Kings (professional wrestlers)
- All Stars (football players)
- Hitmen (mafia)
- Bad Girls (punk/pop girls)
- Gridiron Ghouls (undead)
- Wolf Clan (vikings)
- Cell Block 5 (convicts)
- Dark Horde (hidden boss team, demons)
- Hardkor (hidden boss team, robots)
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- Name
- Dirty Pigskin Football
- Release Date
- September 10, 2006
- Platform
- Arcade (Platform)
- Developer
- Publisher
- Genre
- Football (Genre)
- Theme
- Comedy (Theme)