Tecmo Bowl To Return?(!)

If you are a certain type of male in a certain age range from about 24-32, this is the most exciting thing you can possibly conceive of:

7:23: Seriously, Tecmo Bowl? People at the press conference cheer. Mr. Inaga, Vice President of Tecmo Inc, takes the stage. Inada takes the stage and jokes that the title of the game wasn't supposed to ahve been revealed until the end. "Just pretend like you don't know that it says Tecmo Bowl here" (pointing to the logo on the screen) "Instead of telling you about it, we're going to s how you a video that is very memorable."

The video begins. The video shows Tecmo employees (including Inada himself) playing SNES Tecmo Bowl. Jumps to a trailer for the full game. Set for release in 2008. But, no footage of the game itself ... just a logo.

!!! Questions abound. Is this an arcade-y style game? How can the gameplay possibly evoke Tecmo Bowl or Tecmo Super Bowl? Will they have a NFLPA license? Is this going to be a serious Madden/NCAA competitor? And can I play as Christian Okoye? (I skew a bit younger than the upper range of Tecmo devotees and spent most of my time with Tecmo Super Bowl, playing incessantly for an impressionable period of my youth. At one time I had every non-offensive lineman in the game memorized down to the backup tight end for (awful, awful) Tampa. If I was Bill Simmons' age I would probably go on about Tecmo Bo instead of Okoye.)

There's no platform announcement yet, though the aforementioned Mr. Inaga said "it's probably not going to be on the platform you're expecting," which reveals nothing to me. The game is scheduled for sometime next year; I'm already in line.

UPDATE: As long as we're on the retrogaming tip, check out this SI piece on the top five Nintendo sports games. Co-sign, but I do have a lingering fondness for robots-play-baseball BaseWars