About RetroBowl100

What you can do here

RetroBowl100 is a website for playing Retro Bowl, the pixel-art American football game, in a web browser. You don't pay, install anything or make an account. The game sits at the top of the home page and downloads its files, about 13 MB, only when you press Play. Your career saves in your browser, so you can come back to it later on the same device.

Under the game, the home page has a guide to the controls, the football terms the game uses, running your team and the game options.

Who runs RetroBowl100

RetroBowl100 is part of PLAY100, a small web game studio from Vietnam run by its founder, Mr. Vo. PLAY100 was founded in December 2025 and gives each of its games a website of its own. You can read more on the PLAY100 about page.

What we built

We made the website around the game. That covers the page design, drawn to look like the front and back of an old football trading card, the Play screen, the RETROBOWL100 wordmark and the pixel football icon. The picture behind the Play button and the screenshots in the guide come from matches we played on this site.

The guide is written from playing this copy of the game. We played it in Chrome on a desktop computer: the tutorial drills, four matches and page reloads to check the save. A control or setting goes in the guide only if we saw it work on screen. Where a sentence relies on the game's own help text, it says so.

Headings use Barlow Condensed and body text uses Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. Both fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and load from this site.

Where the game files come from

New Star Games has not licensed the copy of Retro Bowl on this site to us. It is an HTML5 build of the game made with GameMaker; its options screen shows version 1.5.8.9. We downloaded the files from a public copy of the game on another website. That copy lacked a few data and sound files, so we took them from other public copies.

We haven't changed the game's code. The page that holds the game is our own, and it only lets the game load files from this site. The App Store and Google Play buttons inside the game still open those stores in a new tab.

If you own the rights to Retro Bowl and want the game removed, the DMCA page explains how to ask.

The original game

New Star Games made Retro Bowl. According to New Star Games' Retro Bowl page, it came out in 2020. The official game is on the App Store, Apple Arcade, Google Play and Nintendo Switch.

RetroBowl100 is an unofficial fan site, and the game here is an unofficial web version of Retro Bowl. New Star Games has no part in this site and does not endorse it.

Contact

Write to contact@play100.io. If the game won't load or your career is missing, the contact page says which details help us.