From the Archive: Animal Soccer World - the worst game of them all

Be proud, everybody, because arguably the worst video game of all-time is a football game. Well... tangentially.

The intersection at which football and video games meet is almost as old as the medium itself. It’s now been almost fifty years since the Binatone TV Master MK IV was launched, plugging directly into your television with three different formats of the groundbreaking Pong format—which itself had only been relaed released in 1972—including one described as “football.”

A year later saw the release of Mattel’s Intellivision Soccer, a game which saw the introduction of players wearing colours and some degree of an attempt to simulate the laws of the game. The intervening four decades have, however, seen wildly varying results for lovers of both football and video games, from the almost creepy realism of the globally successful Football Manager and FIFA series of games to… well, we’ll see.