#43
'SOCCER'
for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) released in 2000.
Does it actually look silly like that? Yes, it does. But the eyes can be decieving in this game. Because it's the best multiplayer experience the NES has to offer. The game only has the simple name 'SOCCER' and it is what it is. It's soccer, or football here in Europe. Other football-games are always too serious for my taste, though I never tried Mario Strikers, but this one isn't! The game features the simplest controls imaginable, unrealistic yet suitable gameplay mechanics and half-time cheerleaders.
Back in the day I used to play this game a lot. In fact, I think it'll rank in the top 10 games I played most in my lifetime, if I could keep score on each game I played. We used to play 'Duck Hunt', my #47 entry, or 'SOCCER'. Not much else. Not very surprising, because when the NES was moved from my aunt's house to my grandma's after she got an SNES instead, this was pretty much the only form of entertainment we could get at grandma's.
Of course, objectively the game doesn't really deserve to be on a top 50 'Best Games of All-time' list, because for all intends and purposes it's not a good game. Even for it's time, graphics were quite mediocre, content was extremely slim and gameplay was low-levelled simplicity. However, the game proves that there's really only one thing that matters. The fun factor. And for that it actually remains the only game I've ever bought in the Wii's Virtual Console that wasn't part of an offer like 3DS's Ambassador Program. And because of the nostalgia and good feeling it will forever give me, this game belongs on my list.
#42 Hint
It raised some eyebrows; that theme-park game that wasn't a construction- and managment sim.
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