35 Years Of Computer Football Games 1978-2013

thebronze14 wrote: FrankosHereNow wrote: Sensible soccer was the balls, spent a serious amount of time in my pre teen years playing that on the megadrive. Absolutely loved that game. Pro Evo series was the king on PS1 and PS2 but has been awful for the past 8 years. Fifa is top dog now. Another game I loved on the megadrive was a little known game called Ultimate Soccer.. Brilliant game!!Wind up full blast on the blue pitch and the craic was on!!Have the music from it in my head now!!

It was class alright, do you remember the crazy player names??? Aldridge was Baldride.

ISS was quality when it came out . Gameplay was class. Soccer '97 anybody ?

Green Devil wrote: Championship Manager 2001/2002 season s**ts on any other football game ever  Give me Football Manager over Pro-Evo or Fifa anyday

Your obviously just sh*te at football games so

No better feeling than banging in a last minute winner against one of your mates!

Landon Donovan wrote: Pro Evo 5 was my last love in terms of football games. After that they started to get too intense and less enjoyable for me. I cant have fun playing them anymore, you need to be on your game for the whole duration or you will concede. Its very draining. I can only play 2-3 games in a row and i am shattered.

You want to play Max Power in Fifa, that's draining. You need full concentration for the entire game.

Anyone remember the This is Football games, they used be on Ps2. First game to have handballs, diving, and the goalie could get sent off. Brilliant is was think Rio Ferdinand on the front of one of them.

irishmufc wrote: Green Devil wrote: Championship Manager 2001/2002 season s**ts on any other football game ever  Give me Football Manager over Pro-Evo or Fifa anyday  Don't really mean to sound petty but those manager are considered strategy games. You cant really compare them.

LMA manager for the PS2 was the balls

international soccer on the c64 - only game i didn't have to wait half an hour to load as it was on a cartridge! despite the fact it was terrible, it was clearly a kind of football, and as it was equally bad for both players it was great craic.

moving on to microprose soccer - the introduction of replays (with flashing corner "R/r" and the ability to rewind) plus controlling the power of the shot/pass and headers was a big improvement, but still clunky. kick off and sensible soccer on The Amiga and the Atari st developed things further and were the first recognisable football games, really feeling like proper matches.

i play 3d soccer was a terrible game but still very innovative. the first proper 3d football game and allowed you to just play as one player through a whole game if you wanted.

moving into the 16 bit consoles iss and iss deluxe on The snes were balanced against the isometric fun of fifa. i still preferred sensible soccer to be honest.

the psx really brought things along - fifa 97 was a real victory of style over substance, and iss ps1 / 98 was substance over style. both games were great. those engines were then just continuously developed and, by and large, improved. the 2 best games were pro evolution soccer 2 on The ps2 and, if only for the introduction of proper online play, fifa 2009.

i guess the one constant was 2 player games always were the real test if the game was good or not.

honourable mentions:
everton fc intelligentsia - what a crazy game
virtua soccer - goooooooooaaaaaaallllll!!!!!! (after a 2 yard tap in own goal to pull one back to 1-5)
euro football champ (big fat ref falling over during which time you got away with kicking the bejaysus out of the opposition)
the krysalis games always(john Barnes, man united, euro 92 etc) - great graphics
buggy boy (points bonus for bashing the oversized football with the dune buggy)
soccer kid (the forerunner of freestyling)

Denis Irwin wrote: Italia '90 on the Mega Drive   We weren't on it for some bizzare reason

and china were