An interesting retrospective! I hadn't really been familiar with any of the FIFA games (or for that matter, sport games in general) but this was really fun to watch!
RTWC98 was our go to pre-pub game back in the day... few mates, setup a little league, few cans and that was us until it was time to turn out... Happy days! :)
Got this game for 3 quid in my local GAME in the early 2000's, a bargain! I still enjoy playing this today. The indoor mode is awesome. (I also own the N64 version as well, takes a while getting use to the controls though.)
Oh what a great game that was. I mean I can't play it now, but for the time the sheer depth and presentation just blew my mind. I got my PlayStation at Christmas 1997 with two games, and on Boxing Day I went to buy this. My first and possibly best PS1 purchase.
Never really liked footy games, but used to play Fifa Road to World Cup a lot with my mate on his PS1. The music really made a deep impression on me, still love some of those tunes.
was never really a fan of the early FIFA games i did'nt take them all that seriously until FIFA 2005 came along but found this video a great watch none the less. i might just give some of these older games a try thanks for uploading.
FIFA 94 was my earliest memory as a kid on the megadrive and I've always bought them though there's been some stinkers over the years. None of the FIFA games though come close to Pro Evolution 6 that game for me was still the most fun I'd ever had on a football game.
That's in WC'98. There's also an option for sepia in the most excellent Sensible Soccer Meets Bulldog Blighty on Amiga Power Coverdisk #21, along with a Cannon Fodder crossover mode where the ball is a grenade. Check out the ADF good sir; enjoy your work.
Fifa 2000.. They had like England 1966, Manchester United 1968 and Brazil 1973.. And yes some from the 30s... The ball pitch and color of the screen would change depending on the era the team came from... It pisses me off they haven't done it since
Good ol' times. I remember that in a classics match of 1980 Pietro Vierchowod was a team member of Italy. In reality he was also a squad member of the 'modern' Italian squad of 1998, but he wasn't registered as an Italian squad member in the game itself.
man there's something about ps1 graphics, i remember at the time i hated how 'smooth'' n64 games looked but i never thought i'd be nostalgic for a rendering engine.
Kimbo, I can't believe you didn't speak a bit more about the origins and the early years and build up in the MegaDrive. FIFA had a couple of resurrections (FIFA 98 and then after being defeated by Konami's PRO) but the nothing would have been possible without the golden Mega Drive years...
Great review Kim, I never played this and still need a copy, but I bloody loved World Cup 98 on n64 and PS1 and I even liked Three Lions, I'm not even a football or sports fan, but back in the day my friends all were so I naturally got sucked into playing multiplayer!
There's a fascinating degree of arrogance in thinking the single most popular sport on the planet wasn't something that was going to sell... I hate sports in general (sports games even more so), but I would still say if you're going to pick one to make a game about for a worldwide audience, Football would be the one to go with.
To be fair, in the early 1990s, the two biggest video game markets were the US and Japan, two countries that have never been big supporters of football to that point. Europe's video game market was mostly PC based and the market was saturated with a lot of football games (most of which were bad)
Actually the very first 32-bit FIFA game (which came out on the 3DO) was released to near critical acclaim. I remember here in the US a magazine called Computer Player gave it a rare (for them at least) 10 or of 10 saying "you're looking at perhaps the greatest sports game ever. Period." Then again, they may have been enamored by the 3D engine.
SNARCast Productions I upgraded my PC to a Cyrix DX4 100 cpu to play Quake but FIFA ran well on it. before that it was slowwww on an SX33. I also gawped a lot at Need for Speed on the 3DO until we got a PC release
As did I forgot how Need for Speed was such a misnomer on the 3DO because the game was actually quite slow. A year later I did get a new Pentium 150 PC and later a Diamond Monster 3D card to play RTWC 98 and NHL 98. It was such a blast!
The best licenced game for that tournament is the Japan exclusive for the Saturn - World Cup '98 France: Road to Win, running on the SEGA Worldwide Soccer 98 engine and the last proper release in that series. A cheap import and like RTWC very playable even now.
Totally with you on the indoor football option! How is this not an option on the modern football game? There should be a jumpers for goalposts mode too!
The thing I found a bit endearing about 98 aside of taking Papua or Macau to the World Cup was how Brazil's league was a mess. Only game to ever feature freaking Madureira for one.
Oddly, I find it to be my favourite FIFA game - although on the PC. I used to play the hell out of it with friends. Ah, the nostalgia rushing in! (World Cup 98 was alright, too, although it felt a tad slower)
I can't believe I just listened to someone talk about soccer video games.... and was interested in it! It really takes a lot to not make me fall asleep when it comes to this type of stuff, so either you know how to make things interesting..... or someone has slipped some drugs into this tea, heh
im the same, i normally hate ball sports, i never watch anything about football, i barely even know a single player! but i watched all the soccer vids that Kim did xD
Great video - this was *the* football game of my childhood. If we weren't playing this, we'd either be playing Smackdown (mostly 2) or Tony Hawk (also mostly 2). I remember getting FIFA 2000 for our Packard Bell and I just didn't like it anywhere near as much.
Hi Kim! I was hoping you or someone in the comments could help me. I recently discovered your channel and would like to watch all of your videos. If I want to do that what playlists should I save? It seems like most of your video are in the "game reviews" folder with the exception of the A to Z of licensed games, the five videos on gaming television, and your guitar playing videos. Do I have that right? Thanks!!!
Did so many full 38 game seasons in this game 3 of us in the same league and it's a well known fact if you give Gary Breen shit when it's showing the line ups you will lose to Coventry city
I played the crap out of WC98 on PC back in the day. I remember playing on 45 min halves and beating Iran 72-6 with Germany, which was both the most goals I'd scored and most goals I'd given up in a match. Nowadays I'd never have time to play any sports game on full time settings (if they even allow it) both because of the timesink but also because you can just never get a realistic result out of it. I also just fucked around a lot with that game, tackling the goalie to get a red card until I forfeited from having too few players. Kind of sucks that they didn't have indoor mode in that game because it's my favourite part of a lot of the older FIFA games (and one of the ones on the Wii). That newer FIFA Street game has fun indoor arenas too.
Technically, the governing bodies of American Football, Basketball and Hockey aren't the NFL, NBA, and NHL. Their governing bodies are the IFAF (Gridiron), FIBA (Basketball), IIHF (Hockey). And leagues don't have the rights to player likenesses or names, their unions do (NFLPA, NHLPA, NBPA, MLBPA). In Association Football, players rights are usually held with their unions as well. For example, in Great Britain, the Professional Footballers' Association control player assets. France has UNFP and Germany has VdV for example, and a lot of players associations in football are linked together in FIFPro, which is a large governing body of player unions.
Btw .. how is the online gameplay with football games these days [on PC] ? Last time I had a semi-working experience (no horrible lags, the other player just passes the ball back to defence after one goal etc) that was actually fun was probably with PES 2006 xD . The last ones I tried were FIFA 2012 and PES 2013 and it sure was no fun [still play PES 2013 locally with custom patches]. Well, at least there is Rocket League :]
Hi, Fifa is a great Football Video Game franchise. But I am not really into it. I just played Fifa 96, 97, Fifa World Cup 2006 and Fifa Street 2. Which Fifa is the best one? For me it is Fifa World Cup 2006.
my fifa facts -16 bit era the mega drive version was far superior(how could you not mention about running away from the ref) -fifa 98 was an amazing game and blew my mind for the time -the early 2000s pro EVO was the superior game but fifa took back it's crown
fifa 98 was the best fifa ever.period.the soundtrack, the teams, the controls...everything was awesome.fifa 99 was ok too.starting from 2000 everything went downfall
Im european but dont really like football..... :S i try to watch it when my country plays in the world championships, but even then i feel like im just watching some ants kicking around a ball for no reason... But this video was SUPER interesting! i watched pretty much all your videos about this topic and i have no idea why im enjoying them! haha
fifa international was the best. running away from the referee was hilarious till you eventually got bored and let him catch you to send you off lol, fifa 95 was wicked too. the crazy cheats with curve ball and invisible walls and stuff, the shear mental goals you could score on that game were amazing. i would run towards my own goals holding long pass, punt the ball at my goal keeper from half way then hold towards the opposition goal putting back spin on the ball till it flew down the pitch at like 100miles an hour for a goal lol was brilliance. games have totally lost the charm and character they had back then. you should do a pes one too for a while that was the better game. it started as international superstar soccer lol
He makes a load of errors, firstly saying how “revolutionary” the isometric view was on FIFA 96! ISS deluxe on the super nes was WAY better, the only downer was not having the proper names! Same with his crap about leaving ISS98 in the dust which is also bs as Konami’s effort received FAR better reviews!! One good thing about this game was the amount of international teams which has never been repeated on ANY football game! I wish someone would! I want to try and do something with the Faro Islands who keep being thrashed 10-0 and only play football part time!
I played RtWC 98 over and over with my housemates. I thought it was amazing at the time. I waited with baited breath for FIFA 99... It sucked in comparison
PS1 FIFA was utter trash, PES was just head and shoulders above it at that time. I knew absolutely no one who preferred FIFA in that era unless they had never played PES.
Was FIFA 64 the game that Nintendo got before Road to the World Cup came along? that was a terrible game, comparing that to the RTTWC that came after you see an incredible change, also worth note is the excellent World Cup game of 2010 that got so many things right and introduced the seasons mechanic that is used for online progression, gameplay balance make it simply the best FIFA to date.
RtWC '98......can't even begin to imagine how many hours me and a mate sank into that!
i sank years, bruh..
Same
ahhh road to world cup 98! where Dundee Utd's Maurice Malpas, an old grumpy white man from Fife was a backflipping black man.
This game is absolutely amazing. The number of teams, the gameplay, the brilliant memorable commentary, everything is perfect.
God I loved World Cup 98 on the PC. I later got it on the N64 second hand for some reason.
It's 2020 and I can finally listen to Song 2 again without cringing.
An interesting retrospective! I hadn't really been familiar with any of the FIFA games (or for that matter, sport games in general) but this was really fun to watch!
RTWC98 was our go to pre-pub game back in the day... few mates, setup a little league, few cans and that was us until it was time to turn out... Happy days! :)
I haven't had decent Internet access for a while so I haven't been able to check your channel for a bit. Why haven't you hit 1,000,000 subs yet!! x
Song 2 by Blur + Road to the World Cup '98 = iconic
Got this game for 3 quid in my local GAME in the early 2000's, a bargain! I still enjoy playing this today. The indoor mode is awesome. (I also own the N64 version as well, takes a while getting use to the controls though.)
hmmm... I'm biased for ISS Pro Evo, it took the physics on to a new level at the time. We used to laugh at the FIFA magic boot glue.
Sega worldwide soccer 97 was also miles ahead of even FIFA 98.
Oh what a great game that was. I mean I can't play it now, but for the time the sheer depth and presentation just blew my mind. I got my PlayStation at Christmas 1997 with two games, and on Boxing Day I went to buy this. My first and possibly best PS1 purchase.
Never really liked footy games, but used to play Fifa Road to World Cup a lot with my mate on his PS1. The music really made a deep impression on me, still love some of those tunes.
Fifa 95 had the best cover, Erik "The Viking" Thorsvedt.
was never really a fan of the early FIFA games i did'nt take them all that seriously until FIFA 2005 came along but found this video a great watch none the less. i might just give some of these older games a try thanks for uploading.
FIFA 94 was my earliest memory as a kid on the megadrive and I've always bought them though there's been some stinkers over the years. None of the FIFA games though come close to Pro Evolution 6 that game for me was still the most fun I'd ever had on a football game.
Which FIFA game was it where you could play teams from the 1920s, but they played in sepia or black and white?
That's in WC'98. There's also an option for sepia in the most excellent Sensible Soccer Meets Bulldog Blighty on Amiga Power Coverdisk #21, along with a Cannon Fodder crossover mode where the ball is a grenade. Check out the ADF good sir; enjoy your work.
Fifa 2000.. They had like England 1966, Manchester United 1968 and Brazil 1973.. And yes some from the 30s... The ball pitch and color of the screen would change depending on the era the team came from... It pisses me off they haven't done it since
I logged so many hours on this one. Definitely the best of the bunch.
I won a loose copy of RTWC98 when i bought another CiB PS1 game, and to be honest it just hooked me. This soccer game is the GoaT!
Good ol' times. I remember that in a classics match of 1980 Pietro Vierchowod was a team member of Italy. In reality he was also a squad member of the 'modern' Italian squad of 1998, but he wasn't registered as an Italian squad member in the game itself.
man there's something about ps1 graphics, i remember at the time i hated how 'smooth'' n64 games looked but i never thought i'd be nostalgic for a rendering engine.
Kimbo, I can't believe you didn't speak a bit more about the origins and the early years and build up in the MegaDrive. FIFA had a couple of resurrections (FIFA 98 and then after being defeated by Konami's PRO) but the nothing would have been possible without the golden Mega Drive years...
Great review Kim, I never played this and still need a copy, but I bloody loved World Cup 98 on n64 and PS1 and I even liked Three Lions, I'm not even a football or sports fan, but back in the day my friends all were so I naturally got sucked into playing multiplayer!
There's a fascinating degree of arrogance in thinking the single most popular sport on the planet wasn't something that was going to sell...
I hate sports in general (sports games even more so), but I would still say if you're going to pick one to make a game about for a worldwide audience, Football would be the one to go with.
To be fair, in the early 1990s, the two biggest video game markets were the US and Japan, two countries that have never been big supporters of football to that point. Europe's video game market was mostly PC based and the market was saturated with a lot of football games (most of which were bad)
This and fifa 99 was the last fifa games i played, after i discovered ISS and PES there was no turning back.
Actually the very first 32-bit FIFA game (which came out on the 3DO) was released to near critical acclaim. I remember here in the US a magazine called Computer Player gave it a rare (for them at least) 10 or of 10 saying "you're looking at perhaps the greatest sports game ever. Period."
Then again, they may have been enamored by the 3D engine.
SNARCast Productions the PC port of the 3do version was also very playable and I think it had good reviews.
Wish I played that but at the time I didn't have a powerful PC to run it. Wanted to play NHL 96 on it too :(
SNARCast Productions I upgraded my PC to a Cyrix DX4 100 cpu to play Quake but FIFA ran well on it. before that it was slowwww on an SX33. I also gawped a lot at Need for Speed on the 3DO until we got a PC release
As did I forgot how Need for Speed was such a misnomer on the 3DO because the game was actually quite slow. A year later I did get a new Pentium 150 PC and later a Diamond Monster 3D card to play RTWC 98 and NHL 98. It was such a blast!
SNARCast Productions good times my friend, good times
Ah great, I'll watch this as soon as I finish work!
Great upload Kim.
Iss pro evo on PS1 was night and day better than Fifa 98 99 2000 2001
Iss 98 on the N64 is the best footbal game of the 90's. Butt road to the world cup was fun.
Dirk B iss 2000 was better.
The first FIFA game I ever played. Brings back memories...
The best licenced game for that tournament is the Japan exclusive for the Saturn - World Cup '98 France: Road to Win, running on the SEGA Worldwide Soccer 98 engine and the last proper release in that series. A cheap import and like RTWC very playable even now.
I just got a boxed copy of it for my retro PC. They should have stopped there frankly. They got it absolutely right.
Funny I remember winning this game with Cook Islands lol
Totally with you on the indoor football option! How is this not an option on the modern football game? There should be a jumpers for goalposts mode too!
I actually own Fifa 98 for my N64.
To this date, it's the only Fifa game I have ever really gotten while it was relevant
Couldn't agree more with you in regards to it being the best FIFA / Soccer game of all time!
The thing I found a bit endearing about 98 aside of taking Papua or Macau to the World Cup was how Brazil's league was a mess. Only game to ever feature freaking Madureira for one.
This is quality stuff! Big fan
another fantastic video!
98 was definitely the best FIFA of its generation. But even then, I always went back to 95 on my Mega Drive
Agree.. RTWC 97 is a classic
Oddly, I find it to be my favourite FIFA game - although on the PC. I used to play the hell out of it with friends. Ah, the nostalgia rushing in! (World Cup 98 was alright, too, although it felt a tad slower)
I can't believe I just listened to someone talk about soccer video games.... and was interested in it! It really takes a lot to not make me fall asleep when it comes to this type of stuff, so either you know how to make things interesting..... or someone has slipped some drugs into this tea, heh
im the same, i normally hate ball sports, i never watch anything about football, i barely even know a single player! but i watched all the soccer vids that Kim did xD
Great video Kim, I still play the PC version of FIFA 98 which actually works in Windows 10!
me too! i even modded mine!
Fifa 98 was the first modern fifa.. Every game since have built of this one
Great video - this was *the* football game of my childhood. If we weren't playing this, we'd either be playing Smackdown (mostly 2) or Tony Hawk (also mostly 2). I remember getting FIFA 2000 for our Packard Bell and I just didn't like it anywhere near as much.
7:06 - yes I remember the original footage too Kim ;)
Hi Kim! I was hoping you or someone in the comments could help me. I recently discovered your channel and would like to watch all of your videos. If I want to do that what playlists should I save? It seems like most of your video are in the "game reviews" folder with the exception of the A to Z of licensed games, the five videos on gaming television, and your guitar playing videos. Do I have that right? Thanks!!!
Didn't 98 also had Fat Boy Slim on the soundtrack? Anyway I love me some FIFA 98 on PC spend so much time playing it back in the day.
"Rockafeller Skank" was on FIFA 99.
i remember it being body rock
PSID412 this one had Song 2 by Blur. Which was utter brilliance
love the beckham datablast!
You deserves more likes and subs.
"He couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo!"
"The goalkeeper looks like he swallowed a wasp"
I love FIFA road to world cup I got San Marino to the final
Frankly, that was worth it for the dancing John Motson :)
Did so many full 38 game seasons in this game 3 of us in the same league and it's a well known fact if you give Gary Breen shit when it's showing the line ups you will lose to Coventry city
Fifa 96 also had a John Mottson song on PC
Gigi Buffon appeared for the first time in Fifa 98, Del Piero appeared in Fifa 96 but he retired last year.
I want to know the source of the FIFA 16 budget. That seems huge! Did it all go to licensing fees?
I played the crap out of WC98 on PC back in the day. I remember playing on 45 min halves and beating Iran 72-6 with Germany, which was both the most goals I'd scored and most goals I'd given up in a match. Nowadays I'd never have time to play any sports game on full time settings (if they even allow it) both because of the timesink but also because you can just never get a realistic result out of it. I also just fucked around a lot with that game, tackling the goalie to get a red card until I forfeited from having too few players. Kind of sucks that they didn't have indoor mode in that game because it's my favourite part of a lot of the older FIFA games (and one of the ones on the Wii). That newer FIFA Street game has fun indoor arenas too.
I love this game so so much! It's a shame that it doesn't have a champions league or UEFA Cup mode in it, though. Those came later on in fifa 99
nice video... it is really one of my favorite games, really revolutionary... just think since fifa 2009, the game is way better...
Fifa hasn't been good for years now, it's an atrocious money grab.
Great videos keep them up
Fifa: Road to World Cup 98 was the most revolucionary football game and is the father of all the modern Fifas.
I loved this game
Technically, the governing bodies of American Football, Basketball and Hockey aren't the NFL, NBA, and NHL. Their governing bodies are the IFAF (Gridiron), FIBA (Basketball), IIHF (Hockey). And leagues don't have the rights to player likenesses or names, their unions do (NFLPA, NHLPA, NBPA, MLBPA).
In Association Football, players rights are usually held with their unions as well. For example, in Great Britain, the Professional Footballers' Association control player assets. France has UNFP and Germany has VdV for example, and a lot of players associations in football are linked together in FIFPro, which is a large governing body of player unions.
yo Kim ... how about Mikro-Gen? :-) ... (or is it already done and i just missed it? :-D)
Best gaming documentaries on the internet!
*WOO-HOO!*
No one ever mentions the greatest of the 32 bit football game of all time: Olympic Soccer!
Did you ever play the 3do fifa? That one was very good!
Btw .. how is the online gameplay with football games these days [on PC] ? Last time I had a semi-working experience (no horrible lags, the other player just passes the ball back to defence after one goal etc) that was actually fun was probably with PES 2006 xD . The last ones I tried were FIFA 2012 and PES 2013 and it sure was no fun [still play PES 2013 locally with custom patches].
Well, at least there is Rocket League :]
Ah fifa 98..... The reason the 🔺 button didn't work on my pads 🤣
What was the difference between FIFA 98: RTWC and FIFA 98: World Cup?
Iss on both N64 and PS1 and Snes destroyed fifa. On ps2 is was a massacre. Fifa sucked until 2011
Fifa '98 is legitimately one of the best games ever made.
HaHa I DID take the Cook Islands to the World Cup Final!
FIFA 96 , i loved it so much :S
I thought the N64 version of 98 was the best. Even played a couple of full 90 minute games against my brother on that back in the day.
14:07 that piss on Uruguay man..... :(
The PC version of Fifa 96 was fully 3D! And not too bad iirc
No, my mistake! Is also sprites, I must be thinking of 97 or 98
Francesco Totti the gladiator. gotta say ISS was better at the time.
What about the Saturn and Mega Drive versions of FIFA 98?
Hi,
Fifa is a great Football Video Game franchise. But I am not really into it. I just played Fifa 96, 97, Fifa World Cup 2006 and Fifa Street 2.
Which Fifa is the best one?
For me it is Fifa World Cup 2006.
my fifa facts
-16 bit era the mega drive version was far superior(how could you not mention about running away from the ref)
-fifa 98 was an amazing game and blew my mind for the time
-the early 2000s pro EVO was the superior game but fifa took back it's crown
fifa 98 was the best fifa ever.period.the soundtrack, the teams, the controls...everything was awesome.fifa 99 was ok too.starting from 2000 everything went downfall
Im european but dont really like football..... :S i try to watch it when my country plays in the world championships, but even then i feel like im just watching some ants kicking around a ball for no reason... But this video was SUPER interesting! i watched pretty much all your videos about this topic and i have no idea why im enjoying them! haha
I loved fifa 98
Do they still let you turn offsides off!?
world cup 98 was EXACTLY the same game as fifa 98 road to world cup. they made a great game and then immediately fucked up all their sequels
fifa international was the best. running away from the referee was hilarious till you eventually got bored and let him catch you to send you off lol, fifa 95 was wicked too. the crazy cheats with curve ball and invisible walls and stuff, the shear mental goals you could score on that game were amazing. i would run towards my own goals holding long pass, punt the ball at my goal keeper from half way then hold towards the opposition goal putting back spin on the ball till it flew down the pitch at like 100miles an hour for a goal lol was brilliance. games have totally lost the charm and character they had back then. you should do a pes one too for a while that was the better game. it started as international superstar soccer lol
350 million dollars!! And they still can't develop decent on field gameplay
*Fewer* teams! :p
WOOOOO
HOO
He makes a load of errors, firstly saying how “revolutionary” the isometric view was on FIFA 96! ISS deluxe on the super nes was WAY better, the only downer was not having the proper names! Same with his crap about leaving ISS98 in the dust which is also bs as Konami’s effort received FAR better reviews!!
One good thing about this game was the amount of international teams which has never been repeated on ANY football game! I wish someone would! I want to try and do something with the Faro Islands who keep being thrashed 10-0 and only play football part time!
I played RtWC 98 over and over with my housemates. I thought it was amazing at the time. I waited with baited breath for FIFA 99... It sucked in comparison
PS1 FIFA was utter trash, PES was just head and shoulders above it at that time. I knew absolutely no one who preferred FIFA in that era unless they had never played PES.
Was FIFA 64 the game that Nintendo got before Road to the World Cup came along? that was a terrible game, comparing that to the RTTWC that came after you see an incredible change, also worth note is the excellent World Cup game of 2010 that got so many things right and introduced the seasons mechanic that is used for online progression, gameplay balance make it simply the best FIFA to date.
great video!!!!!
and fifa 98 France isn't as good at fifa 98
That is the fattest bottom end I've ever heard. 😂