35 Years Of Video Soccer Games

[dougb]

Pretty cool youtube video found on the Guardian site of video soccer games of the past 35 years. My god some of those early efforts are jarring - I'd forgotten how awful the old Atari sports titles were!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 ... orts-clips

Doug

[Rodster]

My first soccer game was FIFA 97 for the PC.

[pk500]

My first soccer game was FIFA 97 for the PC.

Damn, you're young. Mine was GOAL! for the NES in 1989. Roko was a SAVAGE scorer.

[RobVarak]

If you look carefully, you can see Jamie Carragher in every one of those.

[F308GTB]

My first soccer game was FIFA 97 for the PC.

Damn, you're young. Mine was GOAL! for the NES in 1989. Roko was a SAVAGE scorer.

Damn, you're young. Mine was Atari Soccer.

[XXXIV]

My first soccer game was FIFA 97 for the PC.

Damn, you're young. Mine was GOAL! for the NES in 1989. Roko was a SAVAGE scorer.

Damn, you're young. Mine was Atari Soccer.

+1

[Naples39]

My first, Nintendo World Cup, didn't make the cut.

[rhymes450]

Love the name - "Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona" (minute 4:39 on the video) LOL. You probably couldn't get away with a title like that these days.

[ScoopBrady]

The first soccer game I played was the first Atari version. The first soccer game I owned was the Intellivision game. I remember you could run through the screen on the left side and your player would appear on the right side when playing defense. There were many heated games between myself and my brother.

[tjung0831]

I have to admit, I had quite a few of those games. One game that I didn't see in that video that I played a lot of was a game called "Goal" made by Jaleco in the late 80's for Nintendo.

[Leadfoot5]

My first soccer game was FIFA 97 for the PC.

Damn, you're young. Mine was GOAL! for the NES in 1989. Roko was a SAVAGE scorer.

Damn, you're young. Mine was Atari Soccer.

I think I spent more hours with Atari 2600 soccer than any other version.... Loved that game as a kid...

[Brando70]

I remember being blown away by the graphics on the Commodore 64 soccer game!

[Danimal]

What was the on on the Intellivision? still the best console every made.

[pk500]

I have to admit, I had quite a few of those games. One game that I didn't see in that video that I played a lot of was a game called "Goal" made by Jaleco in the late 80's for Nintendo.

Yep, that was the one I mentioned earlier in this thread. VERY, VERY fun game! Played it a ton.

[Macca00]

doug - thank you so much for the link! Great video!

Terrifyingly, apart from 'Football' and 'Soccer Raupisoft' I have played every one of the 50+ games there (and a lot more). It's such a shame now that you only have two (three if you count NSS) choices for an action soccer game - FIFA and Pro Evo.

Match Day on the ZX Spectrum was the first football game I remember playing.

[WillHunting]

My first soccer game was 2600's Pele Soccer. It looks stupid now, but I had a lot of fun back then beating the CPU twenty-something to nothing every game.

[GB_Simo]

Match Day on the ZX Spectrum was the first football game I remember playing.

Match Day II on the Amstrad CPC was mine. I got the original Match Day - along with its completely, utterly unskippable rendition of the Match Of The Day theme tune, my first introduction to the idea that something could have a novelty value which then wears off - about a year later. Having never had a Spectrum, I don't altogether know how that version compared, and I loved Match Day II at the time...playing it on an Amstrad emulator now, though, the first thing that strikes me is how everything happens v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y i-n-d-e-e-d.

[Jimmydeicide]

Had some great games of that one from the commodore 64 with my brother i remember it because the players remind me of the dire straits video money for nothing
If i played anything before that it cant have been memorable.

[Blublub]

Talk about old, my first was Thorn-EMI Soccer for the Atari 800 - ran on a tape, if I remember correctly.

[dougb]

Talk about old, my first was Thorn-EMI Soccer for the Atari 800 - ran on a tape, if I remember correctly.

that was my first soccer game as well.

For some reason I can't remember intellivision having a soccer game on it, although the sports games on that system were way ahead of the other systems for that time. I loved playing Player Manager on my old Atari ST but it wasn't till Macca introduced me to Konami's wonder that I really played alot of video soccer.

Doug

[Zeppo]

The first soccer game I really got nuts about was Super Soccer from HuBeeSoft on the SNES. That game had national teams but only players with first names, so you had Roger on Cameroon, Diego on Argentina, and of course the great Lothar on Germany. Awesome game that. Tons of epic head to head games there.

Ill never forget my friend and I co-oped against the CPU in tournament mode, finally after many difficult trials winning the Final, and sat to enjoy the classic trophy ceremony when just as the ref was about to hand our little dude the cup, BAM! a shot from the distance brings him down! From off the field marched the sniper at the head of the notorious NIN team, all in black. Suddenly we were confronted with one more match against the toughest of the toughest, the most maniacally efficient and lightning quick CPU opponent imaginable. Just amazingly vicious in that old school video game way.

Later it was International Superstar Soccer 64 on the N64, my first real experience with the Konami games.

Neither of those was in the video.

In between of course it was FIFA on the genesis which I remember debuting about the time of the WC 94.

I also remember the 3DO version of FIFA which was fantastically 3D even with 2D sprites. I rented that machine a couple of times just to play that game. Blew my mind at the time.

[Feanor]

I think Kick Off on the Amiga was my first soccer game.

PES 5 and 6 are two of my favorite games of any type.