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.

History

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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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@ogoulder Haha yeah we have to another super long series of FIFA.
VJLIZ (Vincent Lizama) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:21:38 -0000
@ogoulder Haha yeah we have to another super long series of FIFA.
@lotsofharsh maybe..coz if ppl can master soccer wt #Fifa series...why not this?
tipaw (Sukanto Mukherjee) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:26:16 -0000
@lotsofharsh maybe..coz if ppl can master soccer wt #Fifa series...why not this?
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SHJets (Coach) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:42:54 -0000
19th FIFA World Cup News » Sports TV online: Watch Test S…: Sports TV online: Watch Test Series South Afri... http://tinyurl.com/ybtpuyp
I was already playing the FIFA series when @YadhavDeerpaul was still wearing bebe dou!
rajjkamal (R Kamal Sookoowareea) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:15:02 -0000
I was already playing the FIFA series when @YadhavDeerpaul was still wearing bebe dou!
This tweet is dedicated to all the fans of the FIFA Manager series.
Xi7 (Who.Am.I.?) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:32:48 -0000
This tweet is dedicated to all the fans of the FIFA Manager series.
beat @DavidAColman 2-1 in a mini series of FIFA 10 matches. John Carew & Steve Sidwell were on fireeee!! ;D
chris_brawl (Chris Wilson) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:19:08 -0000
beat @DavidAColman 2-1 in a mini series of FIFA 10 matches. John Carew & Steve Sidwell were on fireeee!! ;D

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