The_Knight
Champions League
- 13 December 2005
Hey guys, I thought I'd share with you my journey with football games since I started playing them in 1989. I'm a little embarrassed by how long it took me to jump ship to WE/PES, but there it is!
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My 30-year journey from Konami's soccer game, to FIFA, and back to PES
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PRO_TOO
Team Heffernan
Man!! Thank you!! 🙏
It’s starts off so well...!! Wasn’t the first match vs Cameroon?!
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that sharp transition from Gameboy to current PES really got me me off the sofa!! It’s moments like these I appreciate “being allowed” to become that old. 
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juce
Champions League
- 7 November 2003
Pretty awesome video... thank you.
Actua Soccer 3 was another stellar game, with a gazillion of teams and pretty cool, unique gameplay mechanics
Actua Soccer 3 was another stellar game, with a gazillion of teams and pretty cool, unique gameplay mechanics
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The_Knight
Champions League
- 13 December 2005
Thank *you* Juce, you're the reason we're all playing PES
I just checked Actua Soccer... that came out alongside FIFA'98? Wow. I feel sorry for the guys who made it... Looks like FIFA ate a big chunk of their sales.
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The_Knight
Champions League
- 13 December 2005
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I know, right? I loved that too.
Ameppe
International
- 23 December 2007
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- SSC Napoli
Such a cool video.
I love how harmonic and slow paced Fifa 11 was, comparing it to Fifa 20 it really seems they have gone backwards.
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How is it possible that I missed (or, most likely, forgot) this video?
Great recap, pretty much what happened to me too. Nintendo World Cup (which I now remember with a bit of nostalgia due to how over-the.-top it was), then FIFA International Soccer at home and the Super Sidekicks franchise at the arcades (boy I loved the third game of the series)... I only got to play ISS and ISS Deluxe at a friend of mine as I didn't have either NES or SNES at that time, but I grabbed myself a copy of ISS 64 and it blew everything else away.
Not a fan of FIFA 97, it was too stiff and on rails, but I agree FIFA 98 was a Hell of a game (and so was FIFA 99 for me).
Then along with FIFA 98 came Virtua Striker 2 (I hardly played the first one, but I spent a lot of time and money with the second one at the arcades).
From there on, it was almost only FIFA (with still a bit of Virtua Striker 3 and 2002 at the arcades and on a friend's GameCube) until PES 3 got released for PC, then PES until FIFA 09... And I did some back and forth in the following years (FIFA 12, then FIFA 14, then PES 2015, FIFA 16, hardly any game in 17)... Now I almost only play PES 2021 on PC and FIFA 14 or 16 on Xbox One.
By the way, @The_Knight, I'd love to see a Super Sidekicks series review of yours. Even more than that, a review of the arcade football games history (including of course some Konami arcade games like Premier Soccer and Soccer Superstars 😉).
Great recap, pretty much what happened to me too. Nintendo World Cup (which I now remember with a bit of nostalgia due to how over-the.-top it was), then FIFA International Soccer at home and the Super Sidekicks franchise at the arcades (boy I loved the third game of the series)... I only got to play ISS and ISS Deluxe at a friend of mine as I didn't have either NES or SNES at that time, but I grabbed myself a copy of ISS 64 and it blew everything else away.
Not a fan of FIFA 97, it was too stiff and on rails, but I agree FIFA 98 was a Hell of a game (and so was FIFA 99 for me).
Then along with FIFA 98 came Virtua Striker 2 (I hardly played the first one, but I spent a lot of time and money with the second one at the arcades).
From there on, it was almost only FIFA (with still a bit of Virtua Striker 3 and 2002 at the arcades and on a friend's GameCube) until PES 3 got released for PC, then PES until FIFA 09... And I did some back and forth in the following years (FIFA 12, then FIFA 14, then PES 2015, FIFA 16, hardly any game in 17)... Now I almost only play PES 2021 on PC and FIFA 14 or 16 on Xbox One.
By the way, @The_Knight, I'd love to see a Super Sidekicks series review of yours. Even more than that, a review of the arcade football games history (including of course some Konami arcade games like Premier Soccer and Soccer Superstars 😉).