Elite Soccer on SNES is that kind of rough-around-the-edges 90s soccer game where the players look like little chunky sprites, but somehow it just works. You pick a team—half the fun is seeing how weirdly unbalanced some of them are—and then it’s straight into fast, chaotic matches where slide tackles happen way too often and the ball physics are… questionable, but in a fun way.

It’s not the prettiest or deepest soccer sim, but there’s something satisfying about how immediate it feels. One second you’re clumsily passing between defenders, the next you’re spamming the shoot button from midfield and somehow scoring. The keepers are either unbeatable or completely useless, no in-between.

If you’ve played other SNES sports games, you know the drill: simple controls, exaggerated animations, and that weird charm where everything’s just a little janky. It’s the kind of game you fire up when you want to yell at the screen with a friend over who fouled who. Definitely a product of its time, but that’s why it’s still fun.