The 2016 UEFA European Championship tournament is underway right now, unfortunately it is getting more attention for the fan violence off the pitch than the actual competition. So to cast our minds away from all of that craziness, focus on the football and i look back at a soccer / football game released during the time […]
Posts Tagged ‘soccer’
Mega Man Soccer Replaces Blasters with Soccer Balls on Super Nintendo – Today in History – April 2nd, 1994
April 2nd, 2016
Carl Williams Nintendo has shown over the years that there is quite a bit of money to be made in iconic characters doing uncharacteristic things. Mario started as a girder climber, then a running and jumping plumber. Eventually Mario saw a short career in pharmaceuticals and even racing. Capcom was paying attention around 1993 when Mega Man […]
Essential Amstrad CPC sports games
January 2nd, 2016
CPC4EVA In the 1980’s It seemed whenever software companies were stuck for ideas they’d always bring out a new sports game, the concept still rings true today. Matchday was the essential football / soccer game on the CPC in the early years then there was the sequel Matchday 2 that boasted much more enhanced improvements to the […]
BattleSport Proves 3DO Can Ruin Friendships – January 1st, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
January 1st, 2016
Carl Williams This is a game that brings back the feel goods for me. When I bought a 3DO it was after I joined the Marines. I shipped to boot camp the day after this game was released. I liked this one a lot for some reason, it was just so different than what I was used […]
HATTRICK: Real-Time Intelligent Sports Edutainment for the Socially-minded Casual Gamer.
August 11th, 2015
Adam Nelon And now for something completely different. From kicking footballs with fire tornadoes and explosive headbutts to the enjoyable intrigue that is managing your own football team. In my last review, I covered the obscure but highly enjoyable soccer JRPG Inazuma Eleven 2, where it took the basic game of soccer and managed to make it […]
Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard—Soccer Ball Z
August 9th, 2015
Adam Nelon Ah, Association Football—the sport of the world. Known to most simply as Football (except in countries like Australia and the United States, which both refer to it as Soccer for the sake of not confusing it with their own respective versions of Football), it is a remarkably simple game which has often been seen as […]
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