Small Ball: Mutant League Football seeks Kickstarter comeback

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Bones Jackson. Joe Magician. Scary Ice.

If you were a sports gamer back on the Sega Genesis, these names mean as much to you as the real players they were parodying in EA’s classic title, Mutant League Football. It was an extremely violent and gory game where monsters not only ruled the gridiron, they could fall to their death through a fire pit on the field, or blow to bits thanks to the old detonating ball trick.

In fact, the game was so brutal/popular, EA produced a spinoff with Mutant League Hockey (exploding pucks!), and there was even a cartoon based on the series that ran from 1994 to 1996.

“Fans still talk about the game today, and they all want the same thing, they all want a new version,” says the man behind the mutants, Michael Mendheim.

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