1980: Hyper-Realistic COMPUTER FOOTBALL | Tomorrow's World | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive 

Graphics will never get better than this.

The little squeal Judith gives out at 1:47 when she tries to save the ball is hilarious.

Not a single monetization gimmicks in sight!

For one moment I actually thought I was watching a real football match.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

"I'm a gentleman, so I'll go first"

These graphics are AMAZING... when is it out?

Ah, wow, it's just like being at a real football match!!!

When did we stop "punching in" text? :( We need to bring that back...

Reminds me of so called 'computer club' at school in the 80s where we all just sat around playing JetPac on the ZX Spectrum. Great days!

£1000 in 1980 would be £4000 today, ouch.

So realistic! I am immersed in its glory

It makes my zx81 with optional 16k plug in ram pack look rather futuristic 😊

4:08 "Judith's just laid me out flat ,but she's still getting a right pasting here."😮

I was at a posh school in Guildford in 1983 and it had banks of BBC Micro (and one hallowed IBM bathed in light at its own desk that only 6th formers could touch). But the BBC was just immense. We all had the 5 1/4 floppy discs and played Aviator endlessly. Everything around the time of this TW programme to about 1995 was just huge steps forward into realms we couldn’t even get our heads around. Such exciting and hopeful times. The way internet has been allowed to develop though, has destroyed any sense of wonder. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but I think history might see Tim Berners-Lee in a similar light to Oppenheimer.

That looks very close to how Utd and specifically Maguire have been playing for the last couple yrs 🤣

I don’t think anything has come so far in such a short space of time……..Video games.

Looks quite fun as a two-player game, like table football.

"...and the computer analyses your tactics..." 0:37

Texas Instruments! I had one of those when I was a kid in the 80s - a 99/4a, and Im pretty sure I actually played this game. There were some good games on that!

I can't watch this without thinking it's a Victoria Wood sketch. She was so spot on with these kind of shows

FC25 on the PS5 Pro Early Preview.

Cutting edge stuff! 😆

All those years that I wasted playing Kick off, Sensible Soccer, FIFA and Pro Evo. This is the football game I always wanted!

Couple of hours on Scratch and you couls knock that up now.

Very realistic.. Everton's back line really does move at that speed.

Oh gawd it's a TI-99.

@1:14 when the computer can do 32 sprites but only time to draw 4 sprites per line so the red player has a ball sized hole in him.

Never knew the matrix filmed on this location

Brilliant.

FIFA '80?! 😂 Today's hyper realistic computer graphics have come a very long way since these humble beginnings. Quite a few dodgy decisions in the game. Where's VAR and goal line technology when you need it? (another 30+ years in the future).

Looks like a TI99/4 (not 4A) computer. Power would increase rapidly and costs would fall in the same way. And look where we are, on the verge of the dawn of the VR/AR revolution.

0:50 Ah yes gentlemen first as the old saying goes

Is that a Texas Instruments micro? My Intellivision from that era had much better graphics (by early 80s standards of course) on its soccer game than this does. I loved watching Tomorrows World as a kid too! And remember two of the three hosts here so well! Are they even around anymore? I remember seeing them as if it were yesterday! And very clear picture quality too, for SD 4:3 aspect ratio, early 80s TV.

Do I believe those crowd sounds are generated by the computer game or superimposed?

The words "Hyper-Realistic" are not mentioned anywhere in this recording. What is mentioned is the £1000 when it goes on sale. I'd want my money back, even in 1980, as the game clearly sucks. Lest we forget, in 1980 we had pacman, Donkey Kong, galaga, asteroids, frogger, defender and many more in the arcades. It took some time before consoles and personal computers could match the quality of those arcade machines. For £1000, I could've played 10,000 games at the arcade, at 10pence a shot. It's entirely possible that over the course of about 10 years I may indeed have spent that much in the arcades 😄 ... although there were sneaky ways and means of getting free credits on arcade machines in the 80's and 90's 😉

Because I'm a gentleman I'll go first LMAO, ah the good old days💀

Now A.I where we came from fascinating

I can see why this "computer games" business never caught on!

Exelente vídeo y con una época maravillosa

I knew this comment section would be golden 🤣Well done lads I needed a laugh.

The ball doesn't seem to slow down at all. 1:25 - 1:33

It's better than all the FIFA's and no DLC or extras to pay to win !

this seems dated even for 1980, and Atari machines had sprites three years earlier, you did have to muck about with VBIs to get more of them moving on screen

I had a football game in the 80’s called football manager where you could buy and sell players and go up and down a league. I suppose the equivalent today would have you dealing with the media and handling the drug and sex scandals the players get themselves in.😂🤣

Thought I was watching Match of the Day.

Texas Instruments TI 99/4 with some kind of prototype/development device

it is a whole different ontology

The crowd sound effects aren't in the original game!!

Wow, thought I was watching a real match for an hour.

My old IT teacher used ro punch the information into us students.

Real world graphics.

"And because i'm a gentleman, I'll go first" Ok then lol.

I thought it was a video of a real football game .

I can't see it catching on

I take it all back, the new EA Sports FC looks good.

Will my RTX 3070 run this?

Clearly before the days of micro transactions.😂

Looks infinitely better than EA's Switch updates of FIFA every year.

It’ll never catch on. 😂

Is this what they used for the recent Indian moon landing?

'Hyper Realistic'!! Do the BBC ever tell the truth?

I’ve seen more realistic football matches in my own excrement as it’s flushed down the toilet

Laughable now, but state-of-the-art for 1980. Even the color televisions had only been around a decade or so.

Still better than EA FC24

only thing 'hyper-realistic' was the foul 5 seconds into the game

Better gameplay than FIFA23!

Better than FIFA 23 tbh

😂

When we reminisce about these games we think of how much fun they were, when we are shown them again we realise by today’s standards how crap they were.

3 dimensional? Hahaha that's 2D

The beginning of the end. We now like in a world of computer game drug addicted zombies

lol he goes first cause he’s a gentleman if he was a real gentleman he would of put her name first how disgusting how he dares call him self a gentlemen

Looks like a TI99/4 (not 4A) computer. Power would increase rapidly and costs would fall in the same way. And look where we are, on the verge of the dawn of the VR/AR revolution.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?