This is possibly the only nice looking foosball table in the history of foosball tables. Most other attempts to create “designer” versions end up looking willfully over designed and therefore worse than a regular bar version. As of writing it is being exhibited at Milan Design Week 2008.

The Opus one is a $75,000 bespoke table with completely customized figures as miniature pieces of sculpture. Here the theme is good and evil with historically relevant figures. Warning, annoying Flash site after link.

This is a commercial version of the surreal idea of playing foosball with real people chained together in a giant inflatable pitch.

The ‘Offside’ table is a half sized, coffee table version of a pedestal foosball table, hand made in England by Howard Bushell.

Designed by Dutch firm, Springtime Industrial Design, this extrusion shaped modernist table was produced for the Italian manufacturer, Garlando.

Extra long foosball tables are something of a fad, and this unbelievably long version has several rivals.

To virtual players in Second Life, this appears as a life-sized soccer stadium where they run around kicking the football. To real-world players, this is a foosball table where the goal is to knock the opposing teams avatars out of the way rather than kick the ball.

Star Kick is a production version of a prototype computer-controlled table football game which was developed as a cooperation project between the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg and ADP Gauselmann.

This video shows a robotic foosball system built at Georgia Tech, in action.

The entertaining Foosballblog has gathered together a collection of really tiny but fully functional tables such as the one pictured here.