Replay Events are pleased to announce that The National Football Museum will be attending PLAY expo with guests to talk about their upcoming exhibition on the history of football video games.
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Hosted by Steve McNeil this panel discussion with John O’Shea, Art Curator at National Football Museum, examining forty years of simulated soccer, from Atari to X-Box and beyond.
Football games (good and bad) have featured on pretty much every platform since gaming began, and some games, such as Sensible Soccer, remain relevant today.
Whilst the Football Manager database has become the go-to resource for sports journalists and real professional scouts, soccer stars like Rio Ferdinand are going berserk online over their FIFA stats: both of these phenomena exemplify the weird way football-gaming is blurring into real-life.
“[The exhibition] will be the first time the relationship between two international obsessions, football and gaming, has been explored in an exhibition as the line between simulation and reality becomes increasingly blurred.”
Discussion features a special preview of artefacts from the archives of EA Sports, Football Manager and the National Football Museum.