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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Tending with Mike D. $1 Mystery Beer $4 shotwheels. Plus FIFA 10 and World Series at River Rat
themichaelkuhn (themichaelkuhn) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:09:55 -0000
Tending with Mike D. $1 Mystery Beer $4 shotwheels. Plus FIFA 10 and World Series at River Rat
Mike beat me in FIFA, but I did beat some random guy...doing homework, then world series
johnwoden (John Oden) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:23:20 -0000
Mike beat me in FIFA, but I did beat some random guy...doing homework, then world series
Watching: YouTube - FIFA PC Series Tribute - From 98 to 09 http://bit.ly/4uP2Ip
Jueeelz1 (Julian Oeste) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:30:37 -0000
Watching: YouTube - FIFA PC Series Tribute - From 98 to 09 http://bit.ly/4uP2Ip
@samclo @natethompson what is the "Fifa World Series"?
tokes (John Toker) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:03:22 -0000
@samclo @natethompson what is the "Fifa World Series"?
@natethompson me, Gary and black Paul are gonna run them Palace w*nkers like we done in 87 for the fifa world series.
samclo (Sam Clohesy) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:47:25 -0000
@natethompson me, Gary and black Paul are gonna run them Palace w*nkers like we done in 87 for the fifa world series.
World series...FIFA...soccer game
YakityBlah (Alex Davis) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:12:48 -0000
World series...FIFA...soccer game

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