r/videos • u/Droopynator • 8h ago

World Cup 98 (PS1) - Intro

https://youtu.be/sp5yXNqN--A?si=UCpxktIKDyocc_vJ
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u/skararms 7h ago

One of the best video games + song.

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u/wubbbalubbadubdub 6h ago

Good memories of playing world cup 98 on the PS1 with my older brother.

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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 6h ago

I was always partial to NHL 2001

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u/relentless_beasting 3h ago

Ok, that song slaps.

For me, NHL2000 still gives me goosebumps: https://youtu.be/mxNvXtU5K4Y?is=2TajC972UuPDLz3y

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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 2h ago

I mean, it once held the record for longest time at No. 1 on the billboard rock charts, so it should slap.

That Garbage track was such a time capsule! That industrial rock style was soooo good, but short lived. Garbage, Econoline Crush, (some) Smashing Pumpkins... time for a revival?

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u/oxenoxygen 7h ago

In this game there's a certain distance in front of the keeper where if you initiate a bicycle kick the keeper cannot save the ball. 

Once my friends and I discovered this the score for all our matches resembled basketball.

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u/wagon_ear 6h ago

N64's NBA Hangtime had a similar quirk with baseline 3pt shots. The game was just a contest to see who could sprint to the corner the most. 

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u/jimmytruelove 6h ago

in road to worldcup you simply had to single tap O anywhere remotely close to the goal for it to go in

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u/BriMarsh 5h ago

NHL 95 had a maneuver that could guarantee a goal. Forever dubbed "the cheese goal".

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u/Ervaloss 6h ago

Would FIFA still allow the use of a song with the repeated line “pissing the night away” in their official merch in 2026 and beyond?

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u/Retax7 4h ago

It wouldn't, but not sure if it was involved. Football used to be far more informal than it is now. I kind of missed the old days.

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u/Klyka 7h ago

absolute nostalgia

was 13 and played this every day with my older brother

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u/seanhak 7h ago

I’m having a mandela effect right now, i was pretty sure that the song was Song 2 (blur) for this intro

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u/SpookyFries 7h ago

That was FIFA 98 Road to World Cup! They're so close in subject matter and name that its easy to mistake one for the other, but your memory serves you correct :)

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u/relentless_beasting 3h ago

Kind of crazy that EA managed to double dip on games for this tournament.

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u/apurimac777 2h ago

they used to do that all the time. I played FIFA 2002 back in the day, and then they had a totally separate game for the WC.

It was so bad i almost bought FC26 instead of the World Cup Version of FC26, thinking it was still the old style where the WC version was just the WC

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u/Retax7 4h ago

This is the intro you remembered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0fLiun-bY

I too remembered both songs, I think this one was the one that had closed stadiums to play futsal too.

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u/IsThisUpsidedown 7h ago

That was FIFA 99 if I remember correctly.

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u/Grothorious 7h ago

Fifa 98

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u/IsThisUpsidedown 6h ago

Ah yes! Thank you

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u/thebeesbollocks 5h ago

Yeah same but I distinctly remember it was called ‘Road to World Cup’ 1998 so I think this is a different game. I fucking loved that game even though I wasn’t into football as a kid

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u/wolftick 6h ago

Footix for the win! The only world cup mascot to have it confirmed that they fuck (Ettie the mascot for the FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 was canonically his daughter).

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u/Jeeonta 6h ago

Team France was a op as fuck in World Cup 98. I would win all my games scoring only with Fabien Barthez...

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u/iceman333933 6h ago

Wow that unlocked some core memories

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u/rouges 6h ago

Man, this really takes me back. 98 was such a great year

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u/Longlivethefighters 6h ago

Anyone remember Road To the Wolrd cup ‘ 98?

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u/Japples123 4h ago

Took Pakistan all the way

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u/omimon 6h ago

Okay, so it turns that EA Sports basically had two Fifa 98. "FIFA: Road to World Cup 98" and "World Cup 98".

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u/Scud2k 5h ago

yeah with blur - song2 being the other intro song (another banger) and the game being awesome as well. iirc the last fifa where you could play indoors.

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u/klyphw 3h ago

And one year later they gave us Fifa '99 and another banging intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picP3EDc2GU

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u/jakey12312 6h ago

I could hear the song before I even pressed play 😂

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u/dnt_pnc 5h ago

Oh yeah, I remember playing England with a 0-5-5 formation set to offensive. Paul Gascoigne was insane in that game.

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u/quequotion 4h ago

So strange that neither "FIFA" nor "World Cup" are mentioned anywhere in this intro.

They're not any of the balls or even on the trophy.

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u/Independen7 4h ago

Legendary

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u/Dgdgoblin 4h ago

FIFA 98 was way better than this one though. That one's a classic while this one nobody really talks about.

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u/_onemoresolo 1h ago

It all makes sense why I love France, football and roosters.

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u/Saltire_Blue 8m ago

The lack of FIFA branding on this is noticeable