By Chris Wright
With FIFA 14 being released today as the franchise moves into its 21st year, we were suddenly overcome by a potent gust of nostalgic whimsy as our minds were instantly cast back to the very first game in the series: 1993’s FIFA International Soccer, which we spent countless hours poring over on the Mega Drive. David Platt on the front cover if memory serves. The skew-whiff isometric view rendering the thing nerve-shreddingly annoying at every turn, quite literally!
Anyway, as per usual with this kind of thing, we fumbled Youtube-wards and set about reacquainting ourselves and duly stumbled across this little corker of a video, which details the progression of the FIFA series from that maiden outing in 1993/94 right though to last year’s bells-and-whistles affair…
We’d have to pick FIFA 99 as our personal favourite of EA Sports’ oeuvre, though that’s also the same year we stopped playing it so, who knows, any of the 2000-2013 editions may have been far, far superior.
What say you?
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