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Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Sports

















Release Date RRP Code

Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (ジョー・モンタナII スポーツトークフットボール) is the sequel to Joe Montana Football, released by Sega in 1991 exclusively on the Sega Mega Drive.

Gameplay

Despite its name, Joe Montana II is an almost entirely different game to the original John Madden Football, the most promient difference being that games are played "horizontally" rather than "vertically". There are also two levels of "zoom", with the camera closing in on the action when appropriate.

Also new is the concept of an in-game announcer, whose comments occur continuously in real time in accordance with the action (as opposed to the previous method of only having voice samples after plays (or in the case of other sports, hits, goals, etc.)), similar to how American football is broadcast on television. This was considered a selling point for the game, and was advertised as part of the Sports Talk series, which includes Sports Talk Baseball and this game's sequels, NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana and NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (as well as College Football's National Championship).

While the concept of in-game commentary would become a standard across most forms of video game American football (and sports gamsein general), Joe Montana II stands as one of the first to bring this feature to home consoles. Here, however, the voiceover is very primitive, with sentences constructed from monotone words, lacking any sense of tone or flow.

Sega would actually move away form in-game commentary for a few years - it does not exist in NFL '95 or its sequels, nor does it appear in the Sega Mega-CD game Joe Montana's NFL Football.

Production credits

  • Programmed by: Maca B. Johnson, Hoss Stephens
  • Artists: Chuck Osieja, Scott Seidel
  • Art Director: Dana Christianson
  • Speech, Music and Sounds: Kathryn Francavilla, Mark Guidas, Ray Frericks, Jeff Fort
  • Technical Advisor: Tom Walsh
  • Voice: Lon Simmons
  • Produced by: Scott Berfield
  • Special Thanks to: Jerry Markota, Scott Rohde
Source:
In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
80 №126, p36[1]
100 №29, p54/55[2]
60 №34
77 №7, p90/91[3]
80 №6, p98/99[4]
90 №25, p144[5]
52 №4, p79
53 №5, p92
80 №1, p16-19[6]
90 №1, p14[7]
83 №15, p158-160[8]
52 №20, p106[9]
88 №28, p32/33
85 №3, p72[10]
75 №18, p66
89 №2, p52-54
76 №2, p76/77[11]
92 №10, p36-38[12]
Sega Mega Drive
78
Based on
18 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
30
[13]
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
40
[14]
Ação Games (BR)
88
[15]
Aktueller Software Markt (DE)
80
[16]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
78
[17]
Console XS (UK) PAL
85
[18]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
80
[1]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
65
[19]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
75
[20]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
68
[21]
FX (UK)
92
[22]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
100
[2]
Gamers (DE)
73
[23]
Games-X (UK)
60
[24]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
83
[25]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
80
[26]
Hobby Consolas (ES)
77
[27]
Joypad (FR)
80
[4]
Joystick (FR) PAL
90
[5]
Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK)
52
[28]
Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) PAL
53
[29]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
80
[30]
MegaTech (UK) PAL
85
[7]
Mean Machines (UK) PAL
83
[8]
Mean Machines (UK)
83
[31]
Mean Machines Sega (UK)
83
[32]
Player One (FR)
52
[9]
Play Time (DE)
87
[33]
Power Up! (UK)
95
[34]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
88
[35]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
85
[10]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
75
[36]
Sega Force (UK) PAL
76
[11]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
78
[37]
Supergame (BR)
92
[38]
Super Juegos (ES)
76
[39]
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US) NTSC-U
80
[40]
Video Games (DE)
58
[41]
Sega Mega Drive
76
Based on
38 reviews

Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football

Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, US (Sega Classic)

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Mega Drive, AU

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Mega Drive, CA

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 File:CVG UK 126.pdf, page 36 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 126.pdf_p36" defined multiple times with different content
  2. 2.0 2.1 File:GamePro US 029.pdf, page 56 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 029.pdf_p56" defined multiple times with different content
  3. File:HobbyConsolas ES 007.pdf, page 82
  4. 4.0 4.1 File:Joypad FR 006.pdf, page 98 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joypad FR 006.pdf_p98" defined multiple times with different content
  5. 5.0 5.1 File:Joystick FR 025.pdf, page 144 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Joystick FR 025.pdf_p144" defined multiple times with different content
  6. File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf, page 16
  7. 7.0 7.1 File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf, page 14 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf_p14" defined multiple times with different content
  8. 8.0 8.1 File:MeanMachines UK 15.pdf, page 160 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachines UK 15.pdf_p160" defined multiple times with different content
  9. 9.0 9.1 File:PlayerOne FR 020.pdf, page 106 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:PlayerOne FR 020.pdf_p106" defined multiple times with different content
  10. 10.0 10.1 File:SegaPro UK 03.pdf, page 72 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaPro UK 03.pdf_p72" defined multiple times with different content
  11. 11.0 11.1 File:SegaForce UK 02.pdf, page 76 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaForce UK 02.pdf_p76" defined multiple times with different content
  12. File:Supergame BR 10.pdf, page 36
  13. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 143
  14. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 149
  15. Ação Games, "Abril 1992" (BR; 1992-04-xx), page 32
  16. Aktueller Software Markt, "März 1992" (DE; 1992-02-14), page 118
  17. Beep! MegaDrive, "February 1992" (JP; 1992-01-08), page 34
  18. Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 131
  19. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1992" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 22
  20. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "November 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 28
  21. Famitsu, "1992-01-31" (JP; 1992-01-17), page 38
  22. FX (UK) (+0:00)
  23. Gamers, "Februar/März 1992" (DE; 1992-xx-xx), page 53
  24. Games-X, "12th-18th December 1991" (UK; 1991-12-12), page 25
  25. Game Informer, "January/February 1992" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 7
  26. Hippon Super, "February 1992" (JP; 1992-01-07), page 99
  27. Hobby Consolas, "Abril 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 90
  28. Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "December 1992" (UK; 1992-xx-xx), page 79
  29. Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 92
  30. Mega Force, "Janvier 1992" (FR; 1992-01-15), page 90
  31. Mean Machines, "February 1992" (UK; 1992-01-27), page 74
  32. Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 139
  33. Play Time, "(8/9)/92" (DE; 1992-07-08), page 91
  34. Power Up!, "Saturday, April 04, 1992" (UK; 1992-04-04), page 1
  35. Sega Power, "March 1992" (UK; 1992-02-06), page 32
  36. Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 66
  37. Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
  38. Supergame, "Maio 1992" (BR; 1992-05-xx), page 38
  39. Super Juegos, "Mayo 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 18
  40. VideoGames & Computer Entertainment, "December 1991" (US; 1991-1x-xx), page 42
  41. Video Games, "8/92" (DE; 1992-07-22), page 48


American Football games published by Sega
Joe Montana Football (Mega Drive) (Master System/Game Gear) (DOS) (1990) | Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (1991) | NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana (1992) | Joe Montana's NFL Football (1993) | NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (1993) | NFL '95 (1994) | Prime Time NFL Football Starring Deion Sanders (1995) | NFL '97 (1996) | NFL 98 (1997)
Joe Montana NFL Football (IBM PC) (unreleased) | NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (Game Gear) (unreleased)
College Football
College Football's National Championship (1994) | College Football's National Championship II (1995) | NCAA College Football 2K2 (2001) | NCAA College Football 2K3 (2002)
NFL 2K Series
NFL 2K (1999) | NFL 2K1 (2000) | NFL 2K2 (2001) | NFL 2K3 (2002) | ESPN NFL Football (2003) | ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)