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Each sport has its most popular players, those who excite the fans of their team and, in general, everyone who sees them play. Their significance is so great that they can even get new fans of that sport; they are that good. That was the case of Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pelé" for soccer.
After several days hospitalized, unfortunately, this Thursday, December 29, O Rei (The King) died at 82 after fighting against cancer. As a legend, he leaves a great legacy, not limited to the real-world soccer fields but also the digital ones. For this reason, from Level Up, we take a brief tour of his passage through video games.
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The first soccer player on the cover of a video game
Today it is usual to see players on the cover of sports video games. However, this was not always like that. In the case of soccer video games, the first was Pelé, considered by many to be the best soccer player of all time.
That game had the image of the Brazilian star on the cover and his name. We are talking about Pele's Soccer, a game created by the Sears company and released in 1980 for the Atari 2600.
A peculiarity of the game is that it did not face teams of 3 VS 3 instead of 11 VS 11. Why? Due to the technological limitations of those years.
Here's a TV commercial used to promote Atari's line of sports games. In addition to Pelé, we see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball) and Mario Andretti (car racing).
That game had a sequel released several years later, in 1994, called PELÉ II: WORLD TOURNAMENT SOCCER, this time for the Mega Drive, preserving the same view as its predecessor.
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2009: The return of O Rei
It took 15 years for the soccer player to officially return to video games, with Ubisoft launching Academy of Champions: Soccer for Wii in 1999.
In this game, we had to create a character and learn soccer tricks at a school run by Pelé himself. Something like the dream of many footballers, even if it is virtually
The goal was to complete various challenges with teams made up of Ubisoft characters, including Rayman, Rabbids, and Sam Fisher.
Take a look at its announcement trailer:
The last one, on the go
Pelé: Soccer Legend was the last video game inspired by Edson Arantes, available on Android and iOS mobile devices. We are a player trained by the legend, and our objective was to score as many goals as possible with the help of Pelé.
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This is how it looks:
FIFA Soccer and the modern era
Being one of the most important representatives of the sport, his participation in the soccer games created by Electronic Arts sounds logical. Sure, at least until this year, when his contract with FIFA ends, but that's another story,
It was in FIFA 14 when the player joined the series as part of the classic players of the Ultimate Team mode. Starting with FIFA 18, he began to have various in-game cards depicting the highlights of his career. The best of all his cards is the 1970 FIFA World Cup, a competition he won with the Brazilian team.
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As a bonus, we share this video with 10 "impossible" goals by Pelé, proving the enormous talent of the footballer born in Brazil, the land of "Joga Bonito":
Rest in peace, Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pelé".
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