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SNES NFL Quarterback Club ‘96

90s SKU KIC-VGAM-0499
$7.00

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NFL Quarterback Club '96 on the Super Nintendo is a 1995 release from Acclaim Entertainment, developed by Iguana Entertainment, arriving at the end of the SNES's competitive run against the 32-bit machines already eating its lunch. It is a cartridge-format football title built almost entirely around the quarterback position, which set it apart from every other football game on the shelf at the time.

By 1995, the SNES football catalog was dense. EA's Madden line owned the simulation throne. NFL Football from Konami had come and gone. Bill Walsh College Football was the sleeper pick. Quarterback Club carved its lane by doing something none of those titles did: centering the QB as the character you inhabited, not just the unit you commanded. Brett Favre was the cover athlete, two years removed from his first MVP campaign in Green Bay. The QB Challenge mode was the headline feature, based directly on the Sunshine Network skills competition that aired during the NFL Pro Bowl week. Accuracy drills, scramble challenges, pocket presence tests. It was a strange and specific product, and that strangeness is exactly why it held on in collections when the bigger-brand titles got traded away or shelved. Acclaim also pushed a companion 16-player stat disc on the Game Boy version that year, which shows how committed the publisher was to the QB-sim concept across hardware.

September 1995, Favre on the box, sixteen months before the ring.

This copy is a loose cartridge, which is how most SNES football games survived the mid-90s rental economy. The gray housing should show the standard Acclaim label stock with the Quarterback Club '96 branding centered and the NFL and NFLPA licensing marks visible in the lower corner area. Check the label edges for peeling or moisture bubbling, which tends to start at the top-left corner on Acclaim carts stored in humid conditions. The connector pins on the bottom edge are the functional tell: any corrosion or residue there will affect play, and they are worth a close look before the cartridge goes into a console.

OWNER VERIFY: Brett Favre cover athlete and 1995 production year on the cartridge label.

September 1995, Favre on the box, sixteen months before the ring.
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This snes nfl quarterback club ‘96 originates from the 90s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.

Super Nintendo. NFL Quarterback Club '96. Iguana Entertainment developed, Acclaim Entertainment published, NFL Properties and NFLPA licensed, released September 1995 as the Madden rival aimed at the QB-sim niche.

28 NFL teams, Super Bowl XXX rosters. Brett Favre on the cover. The QB Challenge mode, a port of the real-life Sunshine Network QB Challenge skills-competition format. Big-Head mode and a Simulation toggle buried in the options menu. Acclaim's MotionLink motion-capture system rendering the throwing animations off Warren Moon, Dan Marino, Randall Cunningham, Boomer Esiason, Jim Kelly, and the other cover QBs they brought into the studio.

SNES cartridge, NTSC-US region. Rectangular Acclaim masthead label, the 1995-96 SNES sports standard, branded with the NFL Quarterback Club wordmark, Acclaim wordmark, and NFL shield (Acclaim retired the earlier oval-label format with the Flying Edge sub-brand around 1993). Battery-backed SRAM for season-mode saves (the battery in these SNES sports carts is a CR2032, user-replaceable but original batteries from the 95-96 pressing are beyond their 20-year design life, so save-battery status on any Acclaim sports SNES cart of this vintage is a per-unit plug-test question). Cart-only or CIB depends on the specific piece; CIB requires the cardboard box, the fold-out manual, the poster insert, and the Acclaim registration card. Tested and confirmed boots to title screen; full save-battery status per photos + shop-floor plug-test.

Post-Madden NFL 96, pre-NFL 2K on the Dreamcast, the mid-90s window when Acclaim, EA, Sega, and GameTek were all pressing licensed football cartridges into Sunday-afternoon rec-room rotation. Iguana's last SNES football title before the studio moved to N64 and Turok.

See photos for label variant, battery status, and CIB vs cart-only. $7. One of one.

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