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List of association football video games

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Association football or soccer video games are a subgenre of sports video games. The earliest examples appeared on video game consoles in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Early home computer versions of such games also appeared during the 8-bit era in the early to mid-1980s.

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Early console and 8-bit computer days

The first arcade system labeled as "Soccer" came out in 1973, being a variation of Pong in the guise of a soccer game: Taito's Soccer.[1] The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, which received an association football game with the title Soccer in 1974.[2] This game was controlled by paddles, similar to the Pong games of the time, and relied on a transparent overlay that simulated a soccer pitch on the television. It was essentially a table tennis game with a soccer skin overlaid on it.

In 1977, the launch of the Atari VCS (also known as the Atari 2600), based on the inexpensive MOS 6502 microprocessor architecture, brought video gaming to many homes. This was the first successful mass-market modular video game console, and it made it possible to play a variety of different games on the same console. In 1980, Atari's Pelé's Soccer/Championship Soccer became the first console association football game to be playable at home.[3] It resembled an actual football pitch much more than previous games, featuring a scrolling field, and it also had a celebration screen, a novelty for video games at the time. The graphics, although still crude by modern standards, were considered much better than in the Pong variants that preceded it. The 1983 updated Atari RealSports Soccer improved the graphics and gameplay, under the RealSports brand of updates to several sport video games. Its release happened around the time of the video game industry crash of 1983.

In the early 1980s, the 8-bit home computer market, also based on the MOS 6502 microprocessor architecture, was going well. In 1982, the first successful home computer version of an association football game, called simply Soccer, was launched by Thorn EMI for the Atari 800 range of computers, both on cartridges and on 5¼-inch floppy disks.[4] The launch of the Commodore 64, also in 1982, brought home computers to many more households, and the development of association football video games really took off. The 16-bit home computer era of the latter 1980s continued the trend.

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Arcade games

The first association football arcade game was released one year after Atari's Pong machines: Taito's Soccer (1973).[1] It resembled a 2-player Pong game in both graphics and gameplay. Over the decades that followed, many more arcade association football game machines were produced.
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Video game consoles

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Atari

Atari VCS (2600)

Atari 5200

Atari Jaguar

Atari Lynx

Nintendo

Note: consoles are listed in chronological order (first handhelds, then home consoles), while individual games or series are in alphabetical order.

Game Boy

Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance

Nintendo DS

Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo Entertainment System

Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom

Nintendo 64

GameCube

Wii

Wii U

Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch 2

Sony

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

PlayStation 3

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Vita

PlayStation 4

PlayStation 5

Sega

32X

Game Gear

Master System

Mega-CD

Mega Drive/Genesis

Saturn

Dreamcast

Microsoft

Xbox

Xbox 360

Xbox One

Xbox Series X and Series S

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Computers

8-bit home computers

Atari 400 / 800 / 800XL / 64XE

  • Thorn EMI Soccer

Commodore 64

ZX Spectrum

Amstrad CPC

16-bit home computers

Amiga

Atari ST

  • Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
  • 1st Division Manager
  • Anders Limpar's Proffs Fotboll
  • Bundesliga Manager
  • Championship Manager
  • Euro Soccer '88
  • Kick Off
  • Microprose Soccer
  • Sensible Soccer
  • Soccer Manager Plus
  • Striker

IBM PC compatibles

Macintosh

Microsoft Windows

  • Global Soccer Manager
    • Global Soccer Manager 2017
    • Global Soccer Manager 2018
    • Global Soccer Manager 2019
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Android and iOS

Google Play

Marketing and franchises

The biggest association football video game franchise is EA Sports FC (formerly FIFA) by Electronic Arts (EA). Its major competitor is Konami's eFootball (formerly Pro Evolution Soccer or Winning Eleven). FIFA is also the most successful sports video game franchise overall.[21]

Franchises

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References

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