Vintage Computer Football Games

[Vapin' Joe]

We thought the early ones were brilliant, looking back they were laughable crap. I used to spend hours playing this -


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbEeCPQFLeE&feature=related


Have a trawl through Youtube and there is even worse, much much worse...

 

[PapaZita]

Have a trawl through Youtube and there is even worse, much much worse...

Oh yes. Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum. Must have been '83 or '84. Me and my best friend spent the entire summer holiday playing that rubbish. The entire holiday. Every day. One day my mum insisted that we go outside, so we unrolled an extension cable and took the computer into the garden.

PZ.

 

[bongofury66]

Football manager on the sinclair zx 81 was better than the spectrum -no shitty graphics just a teleprinter type flash as something happened- it was very tense. However, if you expanded the 1KB memory to 16kb using the expansion ram pack you had the pleasure of waiting for 20 minutes for it to load (usually unsuccessfully) and if you did achieve success you got to play for 5 minutes before the thing crashed due to the fact that the expansion pack came adrift. Happy but futile hours spent.

 

[kyuss]

Sensible Soccer. Utterly addictive. In fact, I'm off to see if you can get it for the mac.

 

[Melonfish]

Sensible Soccer. Utterly addictive. In fact, I'm off to see if you can get it for the mac.

Sensible soccer for me too, on my miggy 600
don't forget SWOS (sensible world of soccer)

 

[Gasman]

I played Match Day on the Spectrum 48K for months. I well remember the crap sound and retina searing graphics. Later I graduated to the Spectrum 128K. The sound on that version was better but the graphics were just as bad.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

For those greenhorns brought up on FIFA, this is how it used to be -


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-kSAXO7sU&feature=related

 

[bongofury66]

I agree, Sensible Soccer was the best Footy game ever.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I agree, Sensible Soccer was the best Footy game ever.

On the PC maybe, but none of them were a patch on Subbuteo.

 

[bongofury66]

agreed

On the PC maybe, but none of them were a patch on Subbuteo.

 

[the_mikey]

I'm not quite sure why I bothered with this...

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnCMkpV3r8k[/media]

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I'm not quite sure why I bothered with this...

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnCMkpV3r8k[/media]

If anyone can find worse, I'd love to see it

 

[Hover Fly]

Does it have to be football?

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4QOgvN6wC8