You know... this isn't news
Ok, now I gotta correct you on this hyper bowl
This was established from jump pretty much, it's called computer assistance and you could turn it off before you go into picking teams. If you turned it off you could blow your opponent out and that was achieved on many many many occasions. My being an elite gamer in my youth, I had the highest score total on the east coast in the blockbuster video game world championships. The 3 games we played to qualify was NBA jam, clay fighter 2 I think and TMNT tournament fighters. So I have to travel to like Baltimore or somewhere for the regionals. The event staff knows who I am because I'm literally the favorite. I make sure they turn the assistance off and I crush my first round opponent. In Rd 2 I'm playing this little kid. I tell a different person this time to turn the assistance off and they act like they don't understand blah blah blah. fukk it, let's play. I'm 12 the other kid is like 8. I take an early lead but that damn assistance gives him the win.
I'm salty about it till this day bruh