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anthkyesterday at 11:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

The first tabletop soccer game was from Spain:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futbol%C3%ADn


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mercaconayesterday at 1:47 PM

Not true. It’s just an undocumented myth. The Spanish Civil War is the reference to the invention by Alexandre de Fisterra, and it’s decades later than the first table football. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_football

ginkoyesterday at 3:28 PM

Seems like only the Spanish Wikipedia mentions this which is suspect. English Wikipedia mentions German&French manufacturers in the 1890s. German Wikipedia attributes it to a French Citroën engineer.