Recommend a good classic football game besides FIFA, Sensi and ISS

Gamer Bhoy 89

I'm mad to try out an old football game that I never got to play, but there are thousands of ones to choose from. I was a FIFA boy right from the beginning (besides a 4 year hiatus playing PES 3, 4, 5, 6, then playing FIFA 08 onwards). I've played ISS and I've played Sensible Soccer.

Were they the only good ones out there back then? Or are there some hidden gems?

Turtwig

Super soccer for the SNES. Fcking loved tat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyeWExPZYg

You could shoulder charge opponents. Knock them down with power shots. And keepers with manual control were the best. Scoring goals was a bit of a puzzle too. Once you figured out the various ways it was quite easy.

Really catchy music themes too.

JrdanB

World Cup Italia '90 and later, Sega Soccer on the megadrive was great if only for the deadly music and the ridiculous banana goal keepers during penalties - in fairness though it was pretty crap aside from that.

(As far as I can tell it was the exact same game only re-named when the World Cup was over)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4CU_p8QQYU

CiDeRmAn

This is Football on the Playstation is another one.

Here's a list of everything
Link

world cup 98 on the neogeo is is my cab at the moment,
gets a lot of play.I mean a lot!

Andrew76

Kick Off 2 and Goal! on the Amiga are worth trying out, both by Dino Dini. Neither are as good as SWOS though. Goal! has some great crowd chants iirc, plays good too.

If you have a C64 then Microprose Soccer is the best you'll find on that machine (made by the same crowd that gave us Sensi and many more non-footy gems).

CathalDublin

Don't for get about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ZF__T7_K4

or what about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8jTOoZ8s4

Andrew76

CathalDublin wrote: »

Don't for get about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ZF__T7_K4

or what about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8jTOoZ8s4

Yeah, remember playing them, International Soccer as well (christ, can't believe that one is 1983!) - but the op did say good footy games. :P
Not sure I'd say these ones were good, we were just stuck for choice back then.

CathalDublin

Andrew76 wrote: »

Yeah, remember playing them, International Soccer as well (christ, can't believe that one is 1983!) - but the op did say good footy games. :P
Not sure I'd say these ones were good, we were just stuck for choice back then.

Match day on the old B&W TV was hilariously good:D

RNB

Give Striker (PS1) a bash - commentary from Andy Gray!

Myrddin

European Club Soccer on the Megadrive was a good one, I remember a cheat code to this day - enter Three Shredded Wheat on the password screen for more powerful strikes

Gamer Bhoy 89

Myrddin wrote: »

European Club Soccer on the Megadrive was a good one, I remember a cheat code to this day - enter Three Shredded Wheat on the password screen for more powerful strikes

I still own that actually, was the first football game I ever played and played it to death until I got FIFA International Soccer.

That cheat code though, I never heard of it :eek: Must give it a go for the buzz

Tomo.Murphy

This is Football was a great game. I'm sure it was the '03 version I had for the PS2. You could dive, do two-footed tackles and tackle the goalkeeper (all great ways to annoy friends who are playing against you by the way).

Vinz Mesrine

Striker and world cup striker for the SNES. Still very enjoyable.

johnny_ultimate

Marko's Magic Football - all the joys of kicking a black and white leather ball, but with pretty much all the other stuff about football removed and replaced with magic, monsters, teleporting and giant sprites!

Grayditch

CiDeRmAn

At least no one mentioned the excrement that was Actua Soccer.

A Greedy Algorithm

Virtua Striker - Dreamcast.

To be honest its pretty bad but there's something about it that keeps me coming back!

penev10

Vinz Mesrine wrote: »

Striker and world cup striker for the SNES. Still very enjoyable.

Is that the one with the indoor 5 a side mode? Great craic that

Kick Off 2 is a must play if you're looking for seminal footy games. The version on the MD was quite good too if you cant lay your hands on an Amiga!

Kenjataimu

Grayditch wrote: »

Adidas power soccer was the first soccer game I had on the ps1.
Was it triangle & X that did the predator power shot or square or circle?

CiDeRmAn

Actually, the Super Sidekicks games on the Neo Geo are pretty good, and play readily by emulation on a whole host of devices.

TechnoFreek

Andrew76 wrote: »

Kick Off 2 and Goal! on the Amiga are worth trying out, both by Dino Dini. Neither are as good as SWOS though. Goal! has some great crowd chants iirc, plays good too.

If you have a C64 then Microprose Soccer is the best you'll find on that machine (made by the same crowd that gave us Sensi and many more non-footy gems).

+1 for Goal! on the Amiga.

Thud

I had a copy ( :eek: )of Man Utd in Europe when i was young, the anti piracy device was a circular card that you had to line up the jersey with the shorts and type in the resulting code, I had only written down a few of them so spent most of my time reloading the game until one of the combinations i had came up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk3FlnImo7s

Josey Wales

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

At least no one mentioned the excrement that was Actua Soccer.

I was just going to post Actua Soccer. Loved that game. Used to play as South Korea with 7 players behind the lone striker.

I always thought that Konami Hyper Soccer for the NES was a good one for its time. It's the predecessor to ISS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrEYtS0a6og

Dr Bob

Microprose soccer the C64 version...Loved that game.

djsim101

ahhhh who could forget this baby....

GGGGGGOOOOOAAAAALLLLL !!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZaeewY_ccs

eddhorse

On arcade it has to be Seibu Cup Soccer http://youtu.be/x3KXbpGYJ_s

Home computer Sensible Soccer FTW.

I've played a lot of ISS on N64.

Microprose soccer on C64.

SWOS on Commodore Amiga.

Championship Manager 93/94 on PC.

STG.Otaku

Andrew76 wrote: »

Kick Off 2 and Goal! on the Amiga are worth trying out, both by Dino Dini. Neither are as good as SWOS though. Goal! has some great crowd chants iirc, plays good too.

If you have a C64 then Microprose Soccer is the best you'll find on that machine (made by the same crowd that gave us Sensi and many more non-footy gems).

Took the words right out of my mouth. Microprose Soccer though is especially good.

Try and win the World Cup with Oman though!

chopperbyrne

Versus Net Soccer which is an awesome Konami arcade game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNPXU97Vzc0

USA '94 on SNES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KmpPlQRymU

STG.Otaku

chopperbyrne wrote: »

USA '94 on SNES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KmpPlQRymU

Hugely underrated game. Nice pick.

o1s1n

urbanledge wrote: »

world cup 98 on the neogeo is is my cab at the moment,
gets a lot of play.I mean a lot!

Its Neo Cup 98! You must have a dodgy label

I love that game.

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Its Neo Cup 98! You must have a dodgy label

I love that game.

Its pure class.
the other super sikekicks are great too.
you can get away with some seriously filthy tackles.you can even break up the ref:D

brianon

SWOS from here http://www.gog.com/game/sensible_world_of_soccer_9697

with recent(ish) squads http://www.retrocollect.com/News/sensible-world-of-soccer-updated-with-201314-players-a-teams.html

DinoRex

There was this utter bag of crap on the Amiga:

I Play 3D Soccer



It was a first person perspective game where you control just one player on the pitch.

CiDeRmAn

Libero Grande on the PS and a sequel.
It had the odd feature of being a soccer game where you play as a single player on the field.