{"id":1684,"date":"2015-06-17T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2015-06-17T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T14:09:23","slug":"best-football-soccer-games-pre-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2015\/06\/17\/best-football-soccer-games-pre-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Best football (soccer) games pre-FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gaming world quite rightly regards EA Sports\u2019 FIFA<\/em> <\/a>franchise as the cream of the footballing crop. With the company\u2019s effortless transition into the world of next generation consoles, thanks in no small part to their sublime IGNITE game engine and the sponsorship of Lionel Messi, a leading contender to win the Ballon d\u2019Or in the football betting<\/a>, FIFA<\/em> looks a certainty to finally do away with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer<\/a><\/em> (PES) and have complete domination of the gaming genre in the next few years.<\/p>\n

However, it has not always been that way. In the years of yonder, the times when the first\u00a0PlayStation <\/a>console (1994) was ground-breaking, they were just another fish in a saturated pond, an idea that is hard to imagine in the current climate. As such, we have decided to take a look at some of the best primitive football games of the PlayStation era and before.<\/p>\n

Intellivision Soccer (1980) – Mattel Electronics<\/h2>\n