Electronic Table Soccer!
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Odyssey 2 - USA - 1st edition. |
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Electronic Table Soccer! is a foosball (aka table soccer) video game developed by Magnavox and published by Philips for the Odyssey 2 in 1980. Like with the real-life game, players try to knock a ball past their opponents and into a goal to score a point. The first player to 10 points wins.
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Personal
Own? | No. |
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Won? | Yes. 10-0 score. |
Finished | 2023-10-26. |
After finding a few Odyssey 2 games where the AI was easy to beat, I decided to try and find others. I ended up beating this one on my first try. Later that day, after several more attempts, I beat the game with a score of 10 to 0, completely shutting-out the AI.
Review
2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Best Version: Odyssey 2
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- The game features an AI, which was a rarity at the time. Too bad it's terrible.
- The flipping animation players make when you score is cute.
Bad
- I do not like the controls. You have to keep left or right held down to move the associated players, but you have to press a different direction to have them kick. This makes it awkward and takes a while to get used to.
Ugly
- There is very little to the game. You'll see everything it has to offer after a few seconds.
- This was the first foosball video game to attempt to draw humanoid players, and the awful graphics and animation make that clear. The audio is also grating.
- After playing for only a couple minutes, I discovered how to abuse the AI in such a way that, whenever I got control of the ball, I was guaranteed to score.
Media
Box Art
Documentation
Videos
Representation
Strong female character? | Fail | There are no women. |
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Bechdel test? | Fail | There are no women. |
Strong person of color character? | Fail | Characters don't have a clear race. |
Queer character? | Fail | There are no queer characters. |
Credits
Role | Staff |
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Entire Game | Ed Averett |
Titles
Language | Native | Transliteration | Translation |
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Danish | Indendors Fodbold | Indendors Fodbold | Indoor Foorball |
Dutch | Elektronisch tafelvoetbal | Elektronisch tafelvoetbal | Electronic Table Football |
English (Jopac version) | Baby Foot | ||
English (UK) | Electronic Table Football | ||
English (USA) | Electronic Table Soccer! | ||
French (Canada) | Soccer de Table Électronique! | Soccer de Table Electronique! | Electronic Table Soccer |
French (France) | Football de table electronique | Football de table electronique | Electronic Table Football |
German | Tischfußball | Tischfussball | Table Football |
Italian | Gioco del calcio | Gioco del calcio | Football Game |
Portuguese (Brazil) | Futebol Eletrônico! | Futebol Eletronico! | Electronic Football |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Futebol de mesa | Futebol de mesa | Table Football |
Spanish | Cuadro electronico de futbol | Cuadro electronico de futbol | Electronic Table Football |
Swedish | Elektronisch bords-fotboll | Elektronisch bords-fotboll | Electronic Table Football |
Links
Categories:
- Video Games
- 1980 Video Games
- Video games developed by Magnavox
- Video games published by Philips
- Video games published by Magnavox
- Odyssey 2 Games
- Video Game Genre - Action
- Video Game Genre - Ball and paddle
- Video Game Genre - Single-screen
- Video Game Genre - Sports
- Media Theme - Sports
- Multiplayer
- Multiplayer Simultaneous versus
- Software Distribution Model - Commercial
- Video Games I Don't Own
- Video Games I've Beaten
- Video Game Rating - 2
- Video Game Graphics Rating - 2
- Video Game Sound Rating - 1
- Video games without a strong female character
- Video games that fail the Bechdel test
- Video games without a strong person of color character
- Video games without a queer character
- Video Game Prime Order - Action, Strategy, Adventure