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New Blitz 2027 is NFL Blitz 2000, the 1999 Nintendo 64 arcade football game, recompiled to run natively on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, PS5 and more. Phones become controllers for four-player games, and an optional free add-on brings today's teams and rosters. Free; bring your own cartridge.

New Blitz 2027 is NFL Blitz 2000, Midway's 1999 arcade football game for the Nintendo 64, recompiled to run as a native app on almost any device. It isn't an emulator: the game's code has been translated ahead of time into native code, so it runs at modern resolutions, in widescreen, at 60 frames a second or more. Players supply their own cartridge dump, which provides the game's assets.

Around the original game, New Blitz adds what a modern setup wants. Friends join a game by scanning a QR code with their phones, which become controllers, for up to four players on one screen, and tournaments run brackets for up to eight. Save states, Redo Play and Instant Replay make every play a do-over. Optional house rules add Receiver Buttons for throwing to a chosen receiver, pro-style realism rules, a play clock and a smarter computer opponent.

The original game, Original 1999, is always there exactly as it shipped. An optional free add-on, the 2026 Season, brings today's 32 teams, rosters, schedule and uniforms, with weekly lineups for those who opt in.

One computer app, for Mac, Windows or Linux, is also the Builder: it sets the game up and sends it to an iPhone, an Android phone or handheld (including two-screen handhelds), or a jailbroken PS5, and it can export a cartridge-ready ROM for a real Nintendo 64. New Blitz is free and open source, made by fans as a Blitz Recomp project, and isn't affiliated with the NFL, Midway or Nintendo.