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Football (soccer)

You control a football team during the match, switching to whichever player is nearest the ball: passing, dribbling, shooting and defending in real time. The challenge is combining with your teammates to create chances and stop the other side.

Also known as: association football video game, soccer game, football game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1973
    Origin

    Soccer, by Tomohiro Nishikado for Taito, was a four-player Pong variant with a green pitch background and a goal on each side.

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  2. 1985

    Tehkan World Cup popularises the top-down view of the pitch and trackball control; it lays the groundwork for MicroProse Soccer and Sensible Soccer.

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  3. 1993
    FIFA International Soccer

    FIFA International Soccer swaps the top-down view for an isometric one and starts EA's FIFA series.

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Reference games

1993

FIFA International Soccer

Extended Play Productions (EA Canada). Mega Drive

Football with national teams seen in an isometric perspective, when other football games used a top-down view. It is the first in EA Sports' FIFA series.

2012

Soccer 2012 (Google Doodle)

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An interactive Doodle for the London 2012 Olympics: you are the goalkeeper, moving and jumping to stop an automated striker's shots; the game ends when you concede three goals.