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A fan-made football game built in Scratch

Retro Football is the name this site uses for a Scratch project called "retro bowl", shared on the Scratch website by the user adove15 in December 2021. Despite the title, this is a hobby build and not New Star Games' Retro Bowl; the studio had no part in it. adove15 built it on top of someone else's earlier Scratch upload and has updated it since; according to the change log, version 1.2 brought in high schools and custom fields.

Because it is a Scratch project, it runs inside the Scratch player: the green flag starts it and everything is drawn with Scratch sprites, including a scoreboard, down markers and small player sprites.

Controls

The author's own instructions on the project page are short:

• WASD runs your player around the field.
• Space starts the play.
• Click to pass, aiming with the mouse.

On the team screen, the arrow keys cycle through home teams and A and D cycle through away teams. Defense is computer-run for now, the author says, while either offense can be human-controlled, so a pair of players on one keyboard and mouse can each run a side's offense in turn.

What is in the project

• Teams: every club of the American pro league is in, alphabetically from the Arizona Cardinals to Washington, and the scoreboard switches to the chosen side's colours.
• Plays: three on-screen buttons let you call a handoff, a toss or a pass ahead of each snap.
• Routes: on passing plays the receivers run named routes such as slant, fly and post, and aim and target markers appear while the ball is in play.
• Rules: down, distance, quarter and clock are all tracked, and there are kickoffs, turnovers, safeties and touchdowns, just as in a real game.
• Defense: the computer players on defense drop into zone coverage.

Tips

• Pick a pass play when you need a lot of yards, and the handoff or toss when only a short gain is needed for a first down.
• Look at the route markers before you snap the ball with Space, so you already know where each receiver is heading.
• Throw a little ahead of a running receiver with the mouse rather than straight at him.
• Protect the ball near your own goal line: being tackled in your own end zone gives the other side a safety.

As a fan project, Retro Football can change whenever its author updates it on Scratch, so features may come and go between visits.