PAUL BROWN remembers the humble beginnings of the console togger

EACH new instalment of FIFA and Pro Evo, EA Sports’ and Konami’s respective football video game franchises, brings much talk of “player impact engines”, “updated facial representations” and “true-to-life active AI”.
Whatever that actually means, there’s no doubt both games are thoroughly impressive technological achievements, presenting frighteningly realistic football simulations with all the bells and whistles a fan could want.
But football games have much humbler or...