I remember as a kid being addicted to Match Day for the ZX Spectrum. Matchday was a soccer game which at the time appeared to captured all the atmosphere of a real game. The game was written by John Ritman and Bernie Drummond who would later go on to program such greats as Batman and Head over Heels.
Match Day wasn't the first soccer game I purchased, the first was the pretty awful soccer game from Artic Computing called World Cup Football
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzo7Wpsndac
I think what sours peoples memories of World Cup Football is that one of the largest publishers at the time US Gold announced a football release for the Mexico 86 World Cup, the story goes that their developers failed to deliver for the release date so they purchased the rights to the already poor Artic World Cup Football and released it as their own. Many a consumer was stung and pretty annoyed.
My next experience of soccer games was the World Cup Soccer for the Game Gear, this was a fast paced football game played from above looking down on the pitch. At the time it was a good game but difficult at times to comprehend where you were on the pitch.
There was of course the Sensible Soccer experience on the PC which was terrific but I never thought I could do better than the Pro Evolution Soccer for the playstation 2......until of course FIFA appeared on the XBOX...currently playing FIFA 11 and saving the spare cash for FIFA 12. Yes football on the console has very addictive qualities.
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