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Retro Bowl Fan-made is an American football game built on Scratch, the MIT block-coding site, by a Scratch user named adove15. On Scratch it is simply titled "retro bowl", and it is a remix of an earlier Scratch project, first shared in December 2021 and updated since. It borrows the look of pixel-art football games, but it is a hobby project made by one fan, not the commercial Retro Bowl, and it plays differently: there is no team management or season, just a single game on the field.

Controls

The author's notes on the Scratch page list the controls:

• W, A, S, D – move your player.
• Space – start the play (snap the ball).
• Mouse click – throw a pass; aim with the mouse pointer.

The author also notes that defense is not player-controlled yet. Both offenses, on the other hand, can be controlled, so you get to run the attack for either team.

What is on the field

• Team select. You pick a home and an away side from a list of pro football cities and nicknames, from Arizona Cardinals and Atlanta Falcons through to Tennessee Titans and Washington. Each team has its own colours on the scoreboard and its own field art.
• Play calls. Before the snap you choose between a handoff, a toss and a pass.
• Routes. Receivers run slant, fly and post routes, drawn on the field so you can see where each one is going.
• Game rules. The game tracks downs and yards to go, a line of scrimmage and a first-down line, quarters, a game clock and a play clock. It handles kickoffs, first downs, turnovers and safeties.

The version history on Scratch mentions an update that added high school teams and custom fields.

Tips

• Look at the route lines before pressing Space so you know which receiver breaks inside on the slant and which one runs deep on the fly.
• The pass goes where you click, so lead your receiver by clicking ahead of him rather than on him.
• Mix in the handoff and toss calls instead of passing on every down; they are there to move the ball on the ground.
• Check the down and the yards to go on the scoreboard before choosing your next play call.