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The FIFA Series is a popular series of football (soccer) video games, released yearly by EA under the EA Sports label. Since its debut release in late 1993, it has been one of the most profitable and well known video game franchises. While there was no major competition when EA released both the first titles in their Madden NFL and NHL series, football video games such as Sensible Soccer, Kick Off or Matchday Soccer were being developed since the late eighties and were already competitive games in the Football Market when EA announced a football game as their next addition to the EA Sports label.

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The key points of EA's massive advertisement were the isometric view of the ground (when all other games used either top down, side scrolling or birds' eye views), detailed graphics and animations and of course, the FIFA endorsement (although it did not feature real player names). It was shipped for Christmas 1993, named FIFA International Soccer, and was released for most active platforms of the time.

While FIFA 95 did not add much other than the ability to play with club teams, FIFA 96 pushed the boundaries. For the first time with real player names, the PC, 32X and Sega Saturn versions used EA's Virtual Stadium engine, with 2D sprite players moving on a 3D stadium. FIFA 97 had crude polygonal models for players and added indoor football, but the pinnacle was reached with FIFA 98:Road to the World Cup. This version featured improved graphics, a complete World Cup with qualifying rounds (including all national teams registered in FIFA) and refined gameplay. Months later, World Cup 98, EAs first officially licensed tournament game, improved Direct3D support, gave each team a unique kit and broke the sequence of poor video games based on tournaments started by US Gold's World Cup Carnival in 1986 and continued until Gremlin's Euro 96.

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Fifa 98 no nintendo 64 com o Lele =B
Posseba7 (Guilherme S Pozzebon) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:17:02 -0000
Fifa 98 no nintendo 64 com o Lele =B
FIFA Manager 10、ほんとよく落ちるな・・・VCのランタイムエラーなんだよね。やっぱWin7の64bitじゃ駄目なんかなぁ。てか、98歳になってもゲーム終わらない。いつゲームオーバーになるんだろう。
orz_nu (Buchi) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:05:43 -0000
FIFA Manager 10、ほんとよく落ちるな・・・VCのランタイムエラーなんだよね。やっぱWin7の64bitじゃ駄目なんかなぁ。てか、98歳になってもゲーム終わらない。いつゲームオーバーになるんだろう。
@bytesandrock "song 2" me recuerda al fifa 98 #caidadecarne
enemigo (♪Pato Maripani) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:24:49 -0000
@bytesandrock "song 2" me recuerda al fifa 98 #caidadecarne
@OscarFilho Atacante do Glorioso FIFA 96,97,98 ... Um dos melhores....ahahahah
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@OscarFilho Atacante do Glorioso FIFA 96,97,98 ... Um dos melhores....ahahahah
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K_Hawke (Kitty Hawke) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:54:46 -0000
Great FIFA Soundtracks 98 - 10 | Share Spotify Playlists at ...: Just great songs from the game FIFA between the ye... http://bit.ly/6aSgN1
Great FIFA Soundtracks 98 - 10 | Share Spotify Playlists at ...: Just great songs from the game FIFA between the ye... http://bit.ly/6aSgN1
K_Hawke (Kitty Hawke) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:54:46 -0000
Great FIFA Soundtracks 98 - 10 | Share Spotify Playlists at ...: Just great songs from the game FIFA between the ye... http://bit.ly/6aSgN1

 
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