Absolutely was going to say the same exact thing I started rotflmao when he said Ronaldo 2 bahahaha I don't even think he's trying to be funny either straight up comedic GOLD!
Just a small clarification. La Copa Libertadores is the equivalent of the european Champion's League, which is a club competition, not a national team cup. The cup you are referring to is la Copa America, which is the continental national competition for south american countries. (PS only recently also north american national teams have been invited to participate making it at all effect an american continental competition) (PPS the ball is red/orange in that game because you're playing in the snow and, if the field gets white by it, it's easier to see the ball)
@@nadademamaditasCONMEBOL is the football confederation that supervises football in all South America. Libertadores is the club competition and Copa America is the continental nations cup.
Thab played the CONMEBOL qualifier in the video, even though Brazil didn't played the qualifier that year because we won the 94's world cup. Copa América doesn't qualify to world cup.
I played this game so much on PC back in the days, good memories. The commentary from John Motson and Andy Gray was legendary. Unfortunately John Motson passed away in February this year. 😢
I used to play this a ton on PC as a kid, amazing games. Kind of wild how in 1998 FIFA could have all the national teams in the world, but now they only give you like 20-30 each year.
Sorry to bring my nerd knowledge but no 1:44 Copa Libertadores is a Club International Competition in South America but it is not the qualifiers for the world cup they are just called "Qualifiers" Also the FIFA 98 and World Cup 98 are "different" games because the FIFA and World cup games are different series although they were both done by EA today what they do is add DLC of the world cup to the main FIFA game instead of making world cup games they did until the 2014 world cup game. I do not blame you for doing both though in the end is the same sports simulation game just with different name.
RTWC98 was one of the best soccer games out there at the time, but yeah, it was rough. I really liked that it had an actual dive mechanic, just like in real life! Sadly, the following FIFA game on the console never felt like an actual sequel to this one. The World Cup 98 'sequel' actually had some stuff taken away from the previous game, so it wasn't exactly a clone.
Pretty sure the Chumbawumba song and blue bird were the official mascot and song of the world cup. Konami's superstar soccer games were much more enjoyable on the N64
Funnily enough, you could've picked Australia for the OFC qualifiers, they're really short. Plus, if you made it through the qualifiers yet got beaten in either the groups or the knockout stage, you could start from whichever of the two you ended at with any team you wanted.
John Motson the godfather of football commentary… RIP.. passed away earlier this year… I had this game for the PC when it came… PS… The bird was the French World Cup mascot and the music all i remember was chunbawumba… Legendary!
You know what's the funniest part about this video? It's that according to FIFA rules at the time, the current World Cup champion auto qualified for the following World Cup tournament without the need to go through the qualifying stages. And can you guess what team won the 94 WC?
@@michaelkitchin9665 I believe the WC in Japan/Korea in 2002 was the last time the previous champion had an automatic spot in the tournament. I'm pretty sure France didn't have to go through the European Qualifiers but I need to check that.
The idea of having every FIFA registered country in a game was really wild. It still doesn't happen that often today. As for the World Cup games, that's all down to licensing. They're not a full-fat FIFA but they make up for it with the official stadiums, team kits and some presentational flair.
This game actually had some local -versions where commentators spoke different language depending where game was sold on Europe. That is pretty rare thing for cartridge games, at least on Europe. Turok 2 also had some European dialogue, though.
@@silvereloking6149 N64 usually had less music or cutdown music than PS1/PC games, due to the storage space available on cartridge compared with CD, Plus the PS1/PC could just play uncompressed CDDA instead of digitized music.
1:40 Copa Libertadores is a club championship, like Europe's Champions Legue. What you're playing is the World Cup Qualifiers. Anyways, your pronunciation of Libertadores was actually pretty good!!
I feel sorry for you when a sports title comes up in the random number generator.. Although those baseball RPGs (death by taxi) have been a ton of fun to watch
1) I believe the ball is red in that snow game because sometimes a “high vis” ball is used in snowy conditions 2) That weird cartoon animal in the intro of the second game is the official mascot of that World Cup, named Footix. Every WC has one idk if it’s to sell to kids or what
I am like Thab, in that you could tell me anything about Soccer and I'd just take your word for it. Oh is that player world-renowned Mr Dimbly? That's so cool. What, an illegal kick from the Rhombus Zone? Damn fuck that team! We're gonna go for a field goal where everyone lines up and kicks the ball all at once? Pretty rad, Soccer
4:00 *"Why the heck is this ball red!?"* It's the "snow ball". They are normally yellow or orange, and are used because a white ball can be hard to see against the snow. The game is probably going for orange, but it looks kind of red.
I used to played this with my dad. we did not have a memory pack so we played the non stop one weekend until we qualify to the world cup. Thats a core memory to me.
The games were not identical. There were bunch of differences between them. The shooting, passing and dribbling were handled differently. I remember for example that in FIFA 98 you could press QQ (I've played on keyboard) and your player would fall down pretending that he was tackled. That was the last release that that feature was added to FIFA :(. Thab though seems to not use any techniques during his play as he does not enjoy this kind of games. Kinda sad :/
Do you mean FIFA 98 = World Cup 98? With the bird? They're definitely based on the same engine. World Cup 98 seems slightly more refined, and was released half a year later. However, there are only two N64 soccer games that are worthwhile. FIFA 99 and ISS98. Everything else is just less refined or inferior games.
its amazing how much content is in FIFA 98. It has soccer clubs and leagues, plus almost all the international teams!!! Usually only the World Cup release has more international teams, but the roles were reversed that year.
I wanna take this time to talk about how I appreciate that you seem to try (almost always successfully) to pronounce names correctly. Love your content, keep up the great work THAB!
These are 2 different games, my favorite football of all time is FIFA 98 RTWC. Sadly, N64 version is behind of PC and PS1 version. No soundtrack, commentary without real names, and some other things.
I love the fact that when you play an American sports game, you seem to know every player but yet youve never even heard of John Motson, one of the greatest commentators of all time. Unfortunately, he passed away this year. May he rest in peace.
The only Fifa game to have indoor soccer until just a few yrs ago. In 97! They had indoor soccer..in a fifa game! Way ahead of their time. I miss the arcade feeling, not a fan of the simulation style anymore.
In Europe, N64 wasn't quite as popular as in the US, so I never owned it, and I don't know the library that well as a result, besides the obvious games (Zelda, Mario etc.). Looks like it's much more focused on sports games/platformers than PSX, which had just about any genre under the sun, and way, way more games too. Even the Japanese exclusives so far haven't been that unique, really. It's a real pleasure, learning about this console through your videos!
The bird is Footix :D world cup 98 happened in France, and the rooster is the french sports national emblem hehe :D Footix specifically was the official mascot for the world cup that year.
A chumba wumba song inn a footie game is is the furthest thing from random, "i get knocked down" was written as a football rally anthem, chumba wumba has alot of those.
I have memories of playing this game with a friend in elementary school and... ... getting bored after a few minutes and switching back to Goldeneye ...so yeah 😅
Copa libertadores is a club competition in the South American confederation known as conmebol and because the World Cup is a tournament for national teams Brazil does not participate in the copa libertadores world Cup qualifying is just called World Cup qualifying
One of my favorite games growing up!! You have to try out the Indoor Soccer field it’s so awesome!! Also you can slide tackle the goalies!! Both of these unheard of in a soccer game
too bad no one told him the cheese move in these games. You can literally c stick up to jump with the ball. If you do this while charging at the goalie you will jump over him every time and then you can just run the ball into the goal. I used to do this so much as a kid lol
Its 2 releases sinces one is PAL region and one is NTSC. People would not buy both, its either one or the other. This occur several times for sports games in the N64 cataloge. Thats why they are basically the same with regional variations
No, it was possible to buy both in each Europe and USA. They're not regional variants, they're 2 different games. From 1998-2014, EA/FIFA would release an additional World Cup-licensed game when a World Cup was being held that year. "FIFA Road to World Cup 98" is pretty much just "FIFA 98" it features soccer clubs and leagues too. "World Cup 98" is the actual World Cup-licensed game that only focuses on national teams, no clubs are in it.
When my dad fisrt gabe me my N64 it came with Mario Kart, Mario Party (1) and World Cup 98. Man, this game can be average at best but back in the day, in front my amazed child eyes, this was the best football game ever. SO GOOD!!!
I know you don´t like Racing games, especially simulation racing games, but I´m really looking forward to F1 World GP, as it´s the game that got me interested in F1^^
Ahh Friday, the N64 games least favourite day of the week. This week, Fifa : road to world cup 98 gets its long awaited beating from Thab. What game will he destroy next week? It's completely random that's the twist!
