The blackbox 'Soccer' game probably isn't the #49 greatest game ever made, but a small handful of games on my list gain their right to be here in large part due to the nostalgia factor. "Blackbox" by the way, refers to the style of the game boxes of a series of NES games, of which the boxes were black with pixelated in-game sprites on the cover instead of some nice drawn art; others like this include Super Mario Bros., Ice Climbers and Wild Gunman. 'Soccer' is one of the earliest games I played, and I used to play it a lot with my oldest cousin on my aunt's NES.
The game, in all its simplicity, is fun though. Because the NES controller has only two buttons and a d-pad, you can only pass, or shoot in the general direction of the opponent's goal and move in eight directions. The goalkeeper moves around according to the movement of your currently active player, which makes him stand in the most ridiculous spots but luckily the ball moves quite slowly giving you time to move the goalie back into the ball's trajectory. But anyway, all this doesn't matter. It's about the laughs, and it gave us plenty of those.
