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

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Judith Hann and Kieran Prendiville demonstrate the a computer football game, featuring realistic graphics and gameplay. With ten players on screen at all times, how does the computer cope? Michael Rodd explains how programmers use "sprites" to smoothly and accurately simulate the intricacies of the beautiful game.

Originally broadcast 12 June, 1980.

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All Comments (21)

@yaosio 9 months ago

Graphics will never get better than this.
@CarrotUK 10 months ago

The little squeal Judith gives out at 1:47 when she tries to save the ball is hilarious.
@candjim 8 months ago

For one moment I actually thought I was watching a real football match.
@7by62 10 months ago

Not a single monetization gimmicks in sight!
@ryanparker2696 10 months ago

"I'm a gentleman, so I'll go first"
@jeshkam 10 months ago

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
@NeverStopRolling 10 months ago

When did we stop "punching in" text? :( We need to bring that back...
@Larry 10 months ago

Ah, wow, it's just like being at a real football match!!!
@badhamian 10 months ago

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!
@fredo1070 10 months ago

£1000 in 1980 would be £4000 today, ouch.
@BuckRolly1 10 months ago

These graphics are AMAZING... when is it out?
@cammaster50 10 months ago

So realistic! I am immersed in its glory
@Omegaspeedmaster69 10 months ago

It makes my zx81 with optional 16k plug in ram pack look rather futuristic 😊
@MrFaceHead 10 months ago

Looks quite fun as a two-player game, like table football.
@markstevens1237 10 months ago

4:08 "Judith's just laid me out flat ,but she's still getting a right pasting here."😮
@OlafProt 10 months ago

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.
@swaneknoctic9555 10 months ago

I don’t think anything has come so far in such a short space of time……..Video games.
@starfleetbrat 10 months ago

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!
@joebryant5722 10 months ago

That looks very close to how Utd and specifically Maguire have been playing for the last couple yrs 🤣
@TheFlixFiles 10 months ago

FC25 on the PS5 Pro Early Preview.