7 not-so-well-known facts about the FIFA franchise

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3. Inspired by the World Cup

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The actual inspiration for EA to develop the game was actually the 1994 World Cup in Atlanta.

So if you’re wondering why FIFA decided to host the football world cup in a country where it is called ‘soccer’, hey it worked. You would not have the game probably if it had happened elsewhere.

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The initial version was released on DOS, Amiga, Sega CD, 3Do, SNES, Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear and Game Boy. Exhaustive ain’t it?

However, the MLS didn’t feature in the game until 2000 with only teams from the country’s second division, the USA League, being featured.

The first version to be available on the PlayStation platform was FIFA 06 which became available on PlayStation 2.

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