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Table football, known as foosball [a] or table soccer in North America, is a tabletop game loosely based on association football. [1] Its objective is to move the ball into the opponent's goal by manipulating rods which have figures attached resembling football players of two opposing teams. Although its rules often vary by country and region ...
Tabletop football is a class of tabletop game simulating mainly association football, but also either of the codes of rugby, or some other form of football such as American football or Australian rules football. The games employ miniature figures of players on a bounded playing board or table that looks like a football pitch (field).
Unlike other tabletop games, tabletop sports require physical dexterity, and (to differentiate from other dexterity games like Jenga) usually has some degree of physical athleticism. Included are games like table football, sports table football, button football, table tennis, headis, cue sports, air hockey, pinball and table hockey games. They ...
Table football (foosball) is an in-table game using player figurese attached to rotating rods. Table football or table soccer may also refer to: Tabletop football, a class of tabletop games that simulate various forms of football, with moving or fixed gamepieces representing players on a pitch/field Subbuteo, a brand of these games
Table football, also known as foosball, a custom-table game loosely based on association football with figures on rods representing the players;
The line defence (7 figures or more) was introduced to the game by Michael Dent in the early 1970s when he moved from Scotland to England and joined the English Table Soccer League (Division 2). Prior to that date Subbuteo rules mandated a 'FIFA approved' formation, e.g. 4-2-4, 3-5-2, 4-4-2 etc. (see Scottish TSA Newsletter No.10, p3, November ...
The company was a subsidiary of electronics manufacturer Mirco Inc, producing foosball tables and coin-operated video games through the 1970s. They notably created a few of the earliest games incorporating microprocessors, including The Spirit of ’76, the first commercially available pinball utilizing the technology. The company was ...
Button football or button soccer is an association football simulation game played on a tabletop, using concave buttons or special-made disks to represent players on the pitch (field), often with a larger rectangular block as the goalkeeper piece. Board dimensions, markings, and rules of play are modeled to simulate standard football.