If you managed to get the hang of it and knew how to score, there was the added bonus of selecting sound effects to accompany your goal celebrations. As the video below shows, the flight of the ball was as predictable as one of those 50p fly-away Champions balls. There wasn't much in the way of improvements for FIFA '95. Controlling the sound effects when you'd scored a goal on FIFA '95 Although it was ultimately pointless, as a seven year old that was still confined to the rules of parents and primary school, nothing felt more rebellious.Ģ. Perfectly accompanied by the Benny Hill theme tune, the footage below demonstrates how you could make your player flee the referee for as long as you wished.
However, when you committed a cynical foul on the 1994 edition, you could at least prolong being given a stern talking to by the ref. Unfortunately, as is the case in real life football, FIFA has always been spoiled a little bit by including referees. With that in mind, here are five classic memories from our FIFA-playing past. While the youngsters of today will be excitedly preparing to spend much of the year ahead fine-tuning their ultimate teams, for those of us that have grown up playing the very early editions of the games, this is a time to nostalgically look back at just how good we thought we had it.
With the season well under way, we're now a matter of weeks from the release of the latest edition of FIFA.