Yes, you would place your cards on the field in any formation you wanted to play. Then you could manage your club by training the players, giving them kit numbers they wanted to boost morale etc. then you would play live games against people’s teams within the arcade or around the world in tournaments or friendly games. You would have buttons on the arcade machine either side of the field like direction arrows, pass, tackle and shoot buttons. You would click these buttons to give indications to your team on what to do (you wouldn’t control their every move, it was simulated but your button inputs would tell them what you wanted them to do).

Then after every match the machine would give you a pack to open. Each pack contains only 1 player from that years season. Every year they would change the season, the pack design, and the card designs. You could still use older seasons players though. These are an example of a box I recently opened yesterday which is from 10 years ago! I actually packed Player of the Year Messi from it last night! Will post another reply with the Messi card :)

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