Insert Coin to Continue, Part 6: A Wide Open Playing Field (1994-2020)

For more than a decade, there was a plethora of football games available for console owners. It's just that not many of them were that great.

In many ways, we live in a world of near-infinite choice. We can find any music, any video, and a lot of words free of charge (should we choose to), and we can purchase from anywhere in the world if we’re prepared to wait a while for delivery. But in some respects choice is smaller than we realise, or smaller than we’ve noticed it becoming. On the Wikipedia page for football video games, there are thirty-five listed for the Playstation. There are sixteen listed for the PS2. There are three listed for both the PS3 and only two for the PS4. And you’re probably not sure what the third one is for the PS3 either, are you?