For: Amstrad CPC, C64, Spectrum

Perspective: Side scroller

Best remembered for: Being the official game of the Mexico '86 and scoring about 0% in magazine reviews across the board. It was utter shit!

For: Amstrad CPC, C64, Spectrum

Perspective: Top-down(ish)

Best remembered for: Pitting players purely as the goalie, and saving a succession of shots. And having a brilliant title, that didn't really have much to do with the game

For: Amstrad CPC, C64, Spectrum

Perspective: Side-scrolling

Best remembered for: Legendary telly theme tune, cute seven-a-side gameplay and a 'revolutionary' ball rebound system. Woo!

For: Home computers

Perspective: Top down with little players that looked like splodges

Best remembered for: Introducing indoor and outdoor matches, weather effects, replays and a strange choice of tricks, such as 'banana flanks', whatever they are

For: Home computers

Perspective: Top down

Best remembered for: The ball not sticking to your players' feet, ensuring novices spent half the matches dancing round the ball

For: Home computers

Perspective: Side view

Best remembered for: An enjoyable passing game, simple arcade-y gameplay, being able to bury the ball from your own half and starring erstwhile forgotten man Michael Phelan

For: Amiga

Perspective: Top-down with piddly sprites

Best remembered for: Being ridiculously fast and utterly playable, so much so, it's still enjoyable today. It even got a souped-up PS2/Xbox re-release in 2006!

For: PC, PlayStation, SNES, Sega

Perspective: 3D, multi-cameras

Best remembered for: Being the first decent FIFA game, having John 'Motto' Motson commentary and far-reaching leagues across the globe. And being able to score 40-yard scorchers

For: PlayStation, PC

Perspective: Nifty 3D

Best remembered for: revolutionary two-man commentary with Trevor Brooking and Barry Davies, Michael Owen motion-capture and being fast as f**k

For: Dreamcast, arcades

Perspective: 3D, generally from the side

Best remembered for: For swallowing our 10ps in the arcades when we were penniless kids and featuring massive, chunky sprites that looked more like rugby players