What a difference 30 years makes...

Finally, we turn to International Soccer, and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. Do you really need words to go with the pictures? We do love the funny men (in the Atari game, natch) but, cripes, our eyes and hearts are so spoilt with modern day gaming we can hardly imagine playing anything that doesn't have a dozen buttons, hosts of floating points or anti-aliasing. Roll on the next 30 years, eh!?

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.