AFL Challenge brings Australian rules football — that fast-paced hybrid of aerial marks, an oval ball, and a giant pitch — to the handheld, with teams and players licensed from the real league. The package is what you'd expect from a sports simulator of its era: full matches, stats, and the particular rhythm of a sport barely known in the rest of the world.
Its natural audience was always Australia, where the sport is a weekend religion. Outside those borders it works as a sporting oddity: a way to get a glimpse of a discipline almost no other video game bothers to represent.
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