Full Time Soccer on the Game Boy Color is one of those old-school football games that feels both charmingly simple and frustratingly hard at the same time. You pick a team (good luck telling them apart with the tiny sprites), and then it's straight into a match with that classic top-down view. The controls are basic—pass, shoot, tackle—but the AI somehow always manages to steal the ball right when you're about to score.

It's got that early handheld sports game jank—players move in stiff little bursts, and the ball physics are... questionable. But there's something weirdly addictive about it, especially if you grew up with these kinds of games. Just don't expect FIFA-level realism unless your idea of realism is defenders running in perfect squares.

You can play it on emulators now, but honestly, it hits different on an actual GBC screen with that washed-out green tint.