The best European Championship video games ever made

“Official tournament tie-in’ is a dirty phrase among most gamers, with the Euros and World Cups serving up their fair share of pathetically stuffed turkeys over the last 30 years. But a small, special handful of games do emerge from the ‘burn after first play’ pile – and it’s these we celebrate below.

From all that time, just three official licensed titles make our list of the best Euros games ever; but the two unauthorised ones more than make up for it. Or at least did in their day. These are the fab five that succeeded at being the virtual equivalent of France 2000, rather than Faroe Islands Forever.

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