11-year-old me: "FIFA 98 is like I'm actually PLAYING as Beckham in the World Cup!" FIFA 98: - ThreadSky

the slide tackle skidmarks in Actua Soccer 2 were possibly the best thing ever put in a football game. we still get cravings (game only works in windows 10 safe mode)

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scottjohnson.zip•91 days ago

Nailed it.

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likechristianb.bsky.social•91 days ago

They would be the ultimate power couple

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lowcalcalzonezone.bsky.social•91 days ago

His head is so tiny!

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tonypdickinson.bsky.social•91 days ago

FIFA 98 David Beckham won't harm you.. oh my God...

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feedmass.com•87 days ago

😂

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gearsofsound.bsky.social•91 days ago

Definitely not a capture fifa98

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ajred.bsky.social•90 days ago

The most upsetting thing for me is he's wearing number 8.

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genx-wisdom.bsky.social•91 days ago

So true. 😂

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nlfg.bsky.social•91 days ago

Epic, epic game though.

*Song 2 starts playing*

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keigezelllig1505.bsky.social•91 days ago

EA-Sports, it's in the game!

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hookystvinotrader.bsky.social•91 days ago

Its inclusion made the game great.

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auntieshell.bsky.social•91 days ago

Cool so 😎 cool !!!

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refreshed-lemon.bsky.social•91 days ago

That's definitely Duncan Ferguson.

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2di2d.bsky.social•91 days ago

My granny’s fan heater was the controls for a submarine

Kid’s imagination is awesome at filling in the gaps

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instantclassicog.bsky.social•91 days ago

This was the first and only FIFA game I ever played and loved

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warmwestwind.bsky.social•91 days ago

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dextersdesciple.bsky.social•91 days ago

Duke Nukem’s head
Jack Grealish’s legs

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mlporter.bsky.social•91 days ago

I worked i a GM foundry and we had some real comedy for management when I was there! Where they had 5500 people is down to 550.

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pardzavfc.bsky.social•90 days ago

That Nigeria team with Jay jay and Viktor Ikpeba

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somebullshit.bsky.social•91 days ago

I imagine the game was the inspiration for the statue

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olmate-unionthug.bsky.social•91 days ago

Such a step up from the Commodore 64

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goingblankagain.bsky.social•91 days ago

That FIFA/Silent Hill mashup was way ahead of its time.

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danhans42.bsky.social•91 days ago

Was playing WWF raw on N64.. The Rock... Just didn't feel right 😂

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jp3chi.bsky.social•90 days ago

The GOAT game!! I would play this the entire day as a kid

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patrickchapman.bsky.social•91 days ago

I remember playing Jungle Strike and ushering over my Mum to reveal to her the stunning likeness of Bill Clinton, which was this...

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jnthnwd.bsky.social•91 days ago

How many Argentinians did you manage to kick?

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lmfsilva.bsky.social•91 days ago

FIFA 98 was extra realistic in that regard because it had a tackle the only purpose was to get sent off.

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bristowbailey.bsky.social•91 days ago

To be fair that is an *extremely* 1998 haircut.

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ule-leon.bsky.social•91 days ago

God I love the way old fifa made us feel … I miss the time this games weren’t filled with micro-transactions and play to win mechanics

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mikethelefty.bsky.social•90 days ago

I was playing as Rooney

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red-diavolo.bsky.social•91 days ago

If you didn’t play ISS/PES during this era then you missed out

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mauragflynn.bsky.social•91 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣 those were simpler days! I loved a driving game on the Sega Mega drive, with similarly on point graphics 🤣

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shineyredflag.bsky.social•91 days ago

It’s him!

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richcurtin.bsky.social•91 days ago

You should use a shot from the game here not an action shot of actual Becks.

#HelpfulHint

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skybluegiant.bsky.social•91 days ago

Lore accurate curtains!

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mikerosemn.bsky.social•90 days ago

Nah looked just like him

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drhodnosaurus.bsky.social•91 days ago

I created a team including my stuffed animals as players, it was the best!

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haypaul67.bsky.social•91 days ago

Your problem being??? 😁

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neilsed.bsky.social•91 days ago

Nailed him!

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moha84.bsky.social•91 days ago

😂😂 facts those polygons looked real to us. Who remembers Tekken 1

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thedoje.bsky.social•91 days ago

It was no LiberoGrande. Also PES at that time was much better.

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g-god-c.bsky.social•91 days ago

Those were the days 😂

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whitepawn.bsky.social•91 days ago

And it obviously was

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halfpintpixie.bsky.social•90 days ago

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madam-im-adam78.bsky.social•91 days ago

If it didn't have his name, I could swear it was Darren Anderton.

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itskbop.bsky.social•90 days ago

Maybe if he was being carried off due to injury

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onlysams21.bsky.social•91 days ago

Wow FIFA 98 predicted Scott McTominay. They just put him in the Beckham slot by accident.

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indiana85.bsky.social•91 days ago

😂😂

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dogmomgigi.bsky.social•91 days ago

His haircut wasn’t that bad. Was it?

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awh42.bsky.social•91 days ago

Fifa 99 was ma first⚽️ game last one a bought was fifa 2019

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arrannz.bsky.social•91 days ago

1994's most realistic NBA experience

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mannextdoor.bsky.social•91 days ago

Fabulous.

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joshpatty.bsky.social•91 days ago

“I feel like I’m actually watching Reggie Miller, Rick Smits, and Dan Majerle!”

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petersonchris.bsky.social•91 days ago

Those PS1 era games look rough now. I remember when FFVII was mind blowing

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shinydh.bsky.social•91 days ago

I *think* that screenshot is from the separate World Cup 98 game? I definitely remember the goal graphics being different in FIFA 98.

AND OH DID I EVER PLAY FIFA 98. Turned the entire Brazilian league into a mess of custom teams. Which, with licensing weirdness, it practically already was...

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protomartyn.bsky.social•91 days ago

@gregorlauder.bsky.social

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loufioravanti.bsky.social•91 days ago

😂😂😂

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yancakes.bsky.social•91 days ago

I remember playing NHL 2002 or thereabouts at a kiosk in a Future Shop (rip) and they we were talking about how great the graphics were and their comment about player models was "they have noses!!"

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zach1345.bsky.social•91 days ago

Loved that game...

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scatling.bsky.social•91 days ago

Was that the edition where Clive Tyldsley would introduce any game being played after 10pm with “Well, I can’t believe they’re playing at this time but welcome to Wembley…”. Blew my tiny mind…

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cya.bsky.social•91 days ago

So they used the wireframes from the NFL game and just changed the texture maps?

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cya.bsky.social•91 days ago

One of the more amusing ways to make the football != football mistake…

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donnadeka.bsky.social•91 days ago

Who shrunk his head?!?!

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skohayes.bsky.social•91 days ago

I always thought David Beckham was better looking than that tiny headed creature!

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hoojieboojie.bsky.social•91 days ago

Where's his head? 😆

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ismaildon.bsky.social•91 days ago

He looks like Einstein's man

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ryandoble.bsky.social•91 days ago

My favourite World Cup. That game is so much fun too

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duchessweaves.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is the best version of Beckham I’ve ever seen!

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mrapplesworld.bsky.social•91 days ago

When FIFA99 came out, my cousin and I were like, how can graphics get any better than this? Also, the amount of goal celebrations was so much fun.

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sportingpage.bsky.social•91 days ago

World Cup 98 still GOATed

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fayereplicant.bsky.social•91 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

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sterix.bsky.social•91 days ago

Peal male performance

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itsamycrow.bsky.social•91 days ago

We had such imaginations back then.

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boringdavid.bsky.social•91 days ago

Graphics couldn't get better than that

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moah3.bsky.social•91 days ago

I was working on a football game for the world cup back then.
Needless to say it wasn't a success.

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kennethfaigh.bsky.social•91 days ago

Still the best FIFA game

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kingalakazam.bsky.social•91 days ago

"They added more detail to them, AND LOOK the fans move now!"

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mothtwiceborn.bsky.social•91 days ago

"...as drawn by Kevin O'Neill..."

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shy-mia.bsky.social•91 days ago

Why does he look like Jerma

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baltusv.bsky.social•91 days ago

Lacks the immersiveness of Peles Soccer..
https://youtu.be/LSEASVJIEx4

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teresalpn.bsky.social•91 days ago

👀 dang! Followed.👀😃😀🤣

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adrianfantasia.bsky.social•91 days ago

Wow looks exactly like him!

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namelessxv.bsky.social•91 days ago

Perfect memory

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americanpulps.bsky.social•91 days ago

Too real.

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sonofnature.bsky.social•91 days ago

https://pulseechonews.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-led-to-assassination-of-indira.html

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mhowardwrites.bsky.social•90 days ago

😂😂😂

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handlaypraymsg.bsky.social•91 days ago

im pretty sure those early games play like ping pong on grass

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qwerty4life.bsky.social•91 days ago

In defense of your younger self, this was what a soccer game (Tecmo World Cup) looked like in 1992:

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vampirelily777.bsky.social•91 days ago

His legs are on the wrong way round 🤔

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hermanosfc.bsky.social•90 days ago

Uncanny

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tonylikesweights.bsky.social•91 days ago

@rebekkarnold.bsky.social 🤣

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j-luke.bsky.social•91 days ago

I said something similar about Michael Jordan in Lakers vs. Celtics for the Sega Genesis.

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jack-penaloza.bsky.social•91 days ago

The man aged like bourbon.

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gunnargoldhair.bsky.social•91 days ago

@noscoredraws.bsky.social

Have you got a late 90s Beckham for reference?

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noscoredraws.com•91 days ago

It's uncanny

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gunnargoldhair.bsky.social•91 days ago

It's beautiful!

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augustudoh.bsky.social•90 days ago

19th century videogame..

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gunterrichter.com•91 days ago

I was reminiscing, watching some FIFA 98 gameplay on YouTube and thinking it would be rubbish. It was surprisingly not too bad!

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mattkarger.bsky.social•91 days ago

Beckham does not skip leg day, evidently.

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monovoce.bsky.social•91 days ago

I see no contradiction

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sueryan66bskysocia.bsky.social•91 days ago

😂 Makes you realise how good the graphics are now.

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adoseofbuckley.bsky.social•91 days ago

I had this feeling the first time I played an NHL game on the original PlayStation. "It's almost like watching it on TV!" Teenage me was delusional!

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zubairkhan28.bsky.social•91 days ago

Awesome 👍😎

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nickipedia89.bsky.social•91 days ago

I don't see the problem...? That's like looking at a photo of him!

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studalgleish.bsky.social•91 days ago

I still think of that game as the 🐐 of football games, but that is definitely of its time with graphics!

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wirralrobin.bsky.social•90 days ago

Wow the memories....

What a game that was! 🔥

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phillippe-felop.bsky.social•91 days ago

Vibes

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tiffncolorado.bsky.social•91 days ago

@taytayynwa.bsky.social 🤭

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thatgeekboi.bsky.social•91 days ago

damn gram gram

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marknicholascomic.bsky.social•90 days ago

My Granddad walked in on me playing FIFA 98 and asked with all sincerity

"Whose Playing?". He thought there was an ACTUAL game on the Tele!

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coolfishhat.bsky.social•91 days ago

i remember watching my older cousins playing this and loving it, some great memories.

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scrittle.bsky.social•91 days ago

Beckham really didn't age well after 95

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ckbk.bsky.social•91 days ago

That indoor soccer mode in the glass box was fire tho

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georgeshair.bsky.social•91 days ago

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mrsibson.bsky.social•91 days ago

If you were playing the N64 version. I made that stadium! #Humblebrag

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farshnuke.bsky.social•91 days ago

The only football game I have ever played for any length of time and enjoyed. I have genuinely played and enjoyed more games of actual football than I have football games.

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thesheiban.bsky.social•91 days ago

The intro video was awesome to watch

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nofunatparties.bsky.social•91 days ago

Aw, I miss this game so bad. 😭

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ghislaine777.bsky.social•91 days ago

We need to go back to this style

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yokaicentral.bsky.social•90 days ago

Lmao. Reminding me of the one family guy episode when quagmire first discovers porn

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vicious-vox-populi.bsky.social•91 days ago

Exactly the same! Stunned at the graphics 😆

Peak gaming, alongside mario kart 64... obviously.

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talbotus.bsky.social•91 days ago

Youth today do not understand the kinds of low poly counts we were subjected to.
I remember Perfect Dark looked just like real life. Now i litter cannot see anything happening when i look again.

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talbotus.bsky.social•91 days ago

For reference

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thatwasit.bsky.social•90 days ago

The kit was just like that. Tbf. 😅

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ulexryu.com•91 days ago

FIFA 98 was my first (and my last) football videogame.
It was also the first FIFA videogame dubbed in Spanish.

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tripol.bsky.social•91 days ago

My best football game still remains Actua Soccer. Trying to remember the release year though

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chargebfx.bsky.social•91 days ago

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tripol.bsky.social•91 days ago

Thanks for this

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dogs77.bsky.social•91 days ago

Hahaha!!! No.. too old , it looks Norwegian and about to bring out a sword.. 😳

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b-fieldmouse.bsky.social•90 days ago

Definition of "if you can hear a picture"...

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dbear14.bsky.social•91 days ago

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baseballharmony.com•91 days ago

Vieri!

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donkamillentee.bsky.social•91 days ago

Played Fifa World Cup 98 on N64 with a friend for a long time. Pizza, beer and liquer - trying to beat all until the finals. All Fifas after: casual arcade cash-in shit at best. Never bought any more copies after Fifa99.

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john-hurst.bsky.social•91 days ago

Did Victoria insist on the shoulder pads?

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chiefblue69.bsky.social•91 days ago

International superstar soccer 98 was my favorite. Basically exact same graphics but no licensing to have real player names. Backham Scoles and Inse feeding Oren and Sheallor

But yeah I definitely thought this was the pinnacle of video game graphics

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2fbs.bsky.social•91 days ago

I didn't realise his head was so tiny

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minotaursauce.bsky.social•91 days ago

Beckham's classic and iconic minecraft curtain fringe

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eevieenoise.bsky.social•91 days ago

No lie, that actually looks sick. I love the way this looks.

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bobk53.bsky.social•91 days ago

Or Messi!

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j1jem.bsky.social•91 days ago

🎶I guess I didn't know🎶
🎶Get busy, child🎶

It's like The Crystal Method *knew*!

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walters-hat.bsky.social•91 days ago

Wow this is like driving a resl car.

The car....

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volotor.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is one of the few games I feel real strong nostalgia for! I must of won the world cup with half the world!

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hughgrexshun.bsky.social•91 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

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chatsubo657.bsky.social•90 days ago

Best FIFA soundtrack ever.

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davedhannoo.bsky.social•91 days ago

That looks like the world cup 98 game not FIFA 98

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soozuk.bsky.social•91 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/soozuk.bsky.social/post/3lb4zhnmtkt2j

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davedhannoo.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yeah not that guy lol just played FIFA 98 way too much as a kid

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littleredrooster.bsky.social•91 days ago

Crikey...He looks like he's overdone on the spinach. 🤣

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germinateferocity.bsky.social•91 days ago

why did i think this was so realistic back then?

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chris923.bsky.social•91 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

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dr-amr-aid.bsky.social•91 days ago

Those were really wonderful days

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mmacken.bsky.social•91 days ago

Graphics were so real back then

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umair56.bsky.social•90 days ago

It was his pre Hollywood era ok

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veteranvandal.bsky.social•91 days ago

"Look at these graphics, so realistic."

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aramshaus.bsky.social•90 days ago

💯

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fphell.bsky.social•91 days ago

Best Fifa ever, one of the best soundtracks too.

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theangelremiel.bsky.social•91 days ago

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berczilla.bsky.social•90 days ago

I think they nailed his shoulders and haircut for the time

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whatsthatmoosic.bsky.social•91 days ago

Massively overrated game. FIFA was awful until they started copying the Pro Evolution control set up.

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madstun.bsky.social•91 days ago

Great reminder that it doesn’t have to be realistic to be fun! Still the one I played the most and also got in fights the most with my friends 😇😅

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forestmourner.bsky.social•91 days ago

wow he looks so different in 98!

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librarianth.bsky.social•91 days ago

That weather 😬

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rubensbarba.bsky.social•91 days ago

Still better than anything that comes out today

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gilgoh.bsky.social•91 days ago

You lost me at FIFA

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hintonusalex.bsky.social•91 days ago

I vividly remember early FIFA versions of Wayne Rooney genuinely looking like Shrek

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sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.social•91 days ago

Gee..your head shrunk some.

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donthitmeimgay.bsky.social•91 days ago

I take it back.
Female comics are funny.

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robin.bobin.uk•91 days ago

To be fair those baggy shirts did actually look like that.

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monkeygetfunky.bsky.social•91 days ago

They really exaggerated his good looks in this game.

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ysalamirione.bsky.social•91 days ago

ronaldinho is my favourite player.
weird how a lot of folk don't know beckham was a football player.
best crosser of a ball ever, his right foot was a wand.

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asheville.bsky.social•91 days ago

There he is, David Beckham

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turbochris88.bsky.social•91 days ago

That’s an old game lol

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imk316.bsky.social•91 days ago

It’s uncanny!

He’s even got the floppy, brown rabbit ears and everything.

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razerramon.bsky.social•91 days ago

I still have this game for the N64

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steven853.bsky.social•91 days ago

That game was very fun, though. I remember emulating it in high school, and handing them out to all my friends. This is what we would be playing during every computer related class lol

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