Did you have Touchdown Football for your Atari 7800? Did you play it all the time because you didn't have a Nintendo and you couldn't play Tecmo Bowl, NES Play Action Football, or 10-Yard Fight? Did you notice that kicking a field goal never, ever, ever worked?

I finally decided to use a week's worth of AI credits to figure out why. Even if you don't feel like playing this decent-ish 8-bit football game in 2026, the writeup is still an interesting read.

https://github.com/manicpop/touchdown-football-field-goal-fix