Changing your team in Retro Bowl is a straightforward proposition. At the end of each season, before even the re-signing period, you will be given the option to change to a different team, with your performance this past season determining how many other teams want to bring you aboard. The menus look like this; this … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Changing Teams
Pictured: A humming front office (Image courtesy of Rob's Phone) Up to this point, this guide has covered two main topics: Building a winning franchise (both roster and front office) from the ground upUnderstanding in-game tactics As I stated all the way back in the Front Office installment, I firmly believe that when you start … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Maintaining a Winning Team
At long last, it's time to talk about some freaking football in this guide to a football game! If you've read this guide up to this point, you may be forgiven for assuming that Retro Bowl is not so much a mobile football game as it is a mobile middle management simulator. But that's not … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Winning Football Games
Building Through the Draft: The First Two Years When you begin your career, your team will stink. All of the players on your roster will have low ratings and limited potential, and will often be on the downward slope of their late careers. You will not have enough coaching credits to afford top-tier free agents … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Drafting and Managing Players
The front office is the foundation of a winning team. Now that I've outlined how to lay this foundation intelligently, it's time to to take a look at building the house. The house, of course, is the team itself. Your roster is everything. Without a good group of good star players, your hopes of making … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Roster Basics and Player Evaluation
(Note: I updated the Introduction to this guide on 4/14/21, and again on 4/20/21; please read the updated intro if you haven't already done so! This portion of the Complete Guide to Retro Bowl was edited on 4/20/21 for continuity and clarity.) I've never met legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, and while I make it … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: The Front Office
New Star Games' Retro Bowl is entirely too much fun.I say this as someone who is both inherently suspicious and inherently dismissive of phone games, and who plays them minimally. Long have I looked down upon the world of mobile games as a micro-transaction choked hellscape, a place where providing a legitimately fun experience is … Continue reading Rob’s Complete Guide to Retro Bowl: Introduction (2nd Important Update 4/20/21!)
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