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How To Turn Your Love Of Sporting Video Games Into Real-Life Adventures

Retromash about 1 month ago

It’s great to play retro sporting video games on your computer or games console – in a lot of cases, you can really get the feel of the game and how it might be to play in real life. It’s the kind of thing that’s become an important pastime for …

PC 486SX (ao486) • 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Another DOS game collection? Why not! This one has a slightly different focus than Exo/Flynn, and DOSContainer projects.We originally published the “Special Sauce v0.0.1” collection a little while ago, and Limi (of AmigaVision fame) reached out to say …
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Random: Did You Know About This Hilarious FIFA 97 Easter Egg?

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"This reminds me of touring with the Sex Pistols!".For generations of sports fans, the late BBC commentator John Motson represented the voice of English football. So it's fairly unsurprising, then, that when EA Canada and Electronic Arts decided to add com …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Special Sauce MiSTer FPGA DOS Game Collection

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Another game collection? Sure why not. I thought I would see what I could learn by tweaking all these games to run on MiSTer FPGA.Why this collection? Well it's not for everyone. The idea was to make a "booter" version of a top games collection where …
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"Why The F**k Did You Put Music In?" - How FIFA's Love Of Licensed Songs Almost Didn't Happen

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"We were sweating at the time".We recently spoke to the key creatives behind FIFA Road to World Cup 98, one of the most transformative entries in the long-running soccer series.As noted in the piece, this entry was the first in the franchise to use license …
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The Making Of: FIFA Road To World Cup 98, The "Greatest FIFA Of All Time"

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"That’s the best FIFA that’s ever been made and still is".Back when we were putting together our 'Making of' for FIFA International Soccer, we asked several members of the FIFA team to name their favourite FIFA game, and almost unanimously, they answer …
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The Making Of: FIFA International Soccer, The Game That Launched A Billion Dollar Series

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"The work that the EA Canada people did was f**king insane".2023 is a milestone year for the FIFA series, marking the 30th anniversary of the original title, FIFA International Soccer for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. So we felt it was worth taking a trip d …
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Flashback: How An IRA Bomb Derailed FIFA '97 On Sega Saturn

Time Extension about 6 months ago

"Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables".There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn't typically one of them. Neverthel …
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Flashback: How An IRA Bomb Almost Derailed FIFA '97 On Sega Saturn

Time Extension about 6 months ago

"Ceiling tiles were displaced and light fittings were dangling by their cables".There are a lot of common problems that tend to crop up while making a video game, but having your whole office destroyed in an explosion isn't typically one of them. Neverthel …
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Guide: Best GTA Games - Every Grand Theft Auto Game, Ranked By You

Time Extension about 6 months ago

With GTA VI around the corner, we rank all the games so far.With over 370 million units shipped since the inception of the series in 1997, Grand Theft Auto is effortlessly one of the biggest video game franchises on the planet – heck, it's one of the big …
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Guide: Best GTA Games - Every Grand Theft Auto Game Ranked

Time Extension about 6 months ago

With GTA VI around the corner, we rank all the games so far.With over 370 million units shipped since the inception of the series in 1997, Grand Theft Auto is effortlessly one of the biggest video game franchises on the planet – heck, it's one of the big …
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Guide: FIFA Cover Stars - Every Athlete From 1993 To 2022

Time Extension about 7 months ago

Rooney! Ronaldinho! Nakata! Messi! Ronaldo!As hard as it may be to comprehend, the era of FIFA is now over. Back in 2022, EA and the footballing body decided against continuing their business partnership, and instead, the video game series is now known as …
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Sensible Soccer Legend Jon Hare Wants To "Get Even" With EA And "Outlive FIFA"

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"We can’t compete with these corporate f*****s".Former Sensible Software boss Jon Hare has delivered a blistering rant in the direction of EA Sports FC as he prepares to release the latest version of Sociable Soccer across PC and consoles.Hare created Se …
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Guide: Best PS1 Emulators - PlayStation Emulation Made Easy

Time Extension about 7 months ago

The best emulators for Sony's 32-bit wonder.Sony's 32-bit PlayStation is the console that began decades of dominance in the world of games for the Japanese tech giant and is home to some of the most famous franchises in interactive entertainment. Gran Turi …
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Games • Is Bruce Lee the only game where player 2 can control the "bad guys" while player 1 completes the levels?

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Hey guys, I'm mostly a CPC/MS-DOS/PS1 fan from Spain, but I appreaciate all retro platforms. I believe the true war should be retro Vs. modern. I created this account to ask this question here as this seems a very active forum and Bruce Lee came out for m …
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PlayStation Had The Chance To Steal FIFA From EA In The '90s, But Passed

Time Extension about 8 months ago

"I think EA would have responded quite badly to that".A lot has been written this year about EA Sports' decision to part ways with the FIFA brand to release EA Sports FC 24. However, what you might not know is that this could have happened much sooner than …
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Flashback: Remembering The Time Robbie Williams Did Motion Capture For FIFA

Time Extension about 8 months ago

"He said, 'I’ll do this for nothing'".In 1999, EA Sports made an agreement with the famous UK singer Robbie Williams to feature his latest single "It's Only Us" as the opening song for FIFA 2000. The publisher had licensed popular music in the past, cutt …
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Original FIFA Dev Says EA/FIFA Split "Should Have Been Done Years Ago"

Time Extension about 10 months ago

"The video game doesn’t need those four letters".Last year, the announcement was made that the video game developer EA Sports and the Football governing body FIFA would no longer be working together on new FIFA games after the two organizations failed to …

Software • Keyboard and mouse randomly stop working in Win98 D3D games under nvidia driver ver. 56.64 and 45.23

Vogons about 11 months ago

Aye, got another one for you guys. In my Win98 rig, the keyboard and mouse randomly stop working in Need for Speed III and Fifa World Cup 98, but this happens ONLY when I use nvidia drivers 56.64 and 45.23. I've checked this using 2 separate GPUs - the …

General Old Hardware • ISO on\for DOS?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi all ? there is a question that always been inside me, but never properly asked for: I have some, lot of games for DOS that requires a CD for play (Monkey Island, Full Throttle, The Dig, Timegate, FIFA 96 ecc.) but unfortunately I only have ISO images …

Bally's World Cup Soccer coming to Pinball FX – with Fifa licence

Digital Pinball Fans about 2 years ago

On the latest Pinball Show, Zen Pinball have announced that Bally's World Cup Soccer will be coming to Pinball FX. The table originally launched in 1994 to coincide with the 1994 World cup, which was held in the US. It was designed by Larry DeMar and John …

187: Goal Scoring Superstar Heros

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 7 years ago

Welcome to another episode of RGDS, where leading goal scorer Matt Aguilera, and robust but cultured centre-half Matt Lambourne discuss the music and the finer aspects of some of Retro Gaming's favourite football games. This is a FIFA free zone, so don't b …