In the waning light of the 2000s, when broadband was a wish more often than a guarantee and hard drives wore the modest pride of a few dozen gigabytes, the world of football gaming lived in a delicate tension between ambition and limitation. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 — PES 2009 — arrived as a bright, textured promise: subtler ball physics, faces that tried to remember players’ moods, and a quieter, more intelligent artificial opponent that could punish sloppy play. For many players, though, accessing that promise required a ritual born of constraint: the hunt for the “highly compressed” PC download.