| Credits | |
| Published: |
1992, Renegade
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| Developer: |  |
| Design: | Jon Hare, Chris Chapman, Chris Yates, Dave Korn |
| Coder: | Chris Chapman, Dave Korn, Chris Jates, Julian Jameson |
| Graphics: | Jon Hare |
| Musician: | Richard Joseph |
| Sound Effects: | Richard Joseph |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS, ECS |
| Disks: | 2 |
| Code Language: | ASM 68k |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English, German, French, Italian |
| Players: | 1 or 2, Simultaneous |
| Notes: | Research: Mike Hammond |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Sports |
| Subgenre: | Football/Soccer |
| Tags: | football, multidirectional, sports, topdown |
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This is what happens when you understand about getting the scale of the player right to allow the best gameplay possible instead of trying to produce something that will only look good in a screenshot for the ads. Good design, good coding, simple but effective graphics. That's why it's a hit and all the other arcadey soccers with huge players are a fail.
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Happy 30th Birthday, Sensible Soccer!
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If someone wrote a book called "Growing Up in the 90's", the cover would be a screenshot of this game. All that had to be said about this game has been said in the last 30 years. So, there's not much else to say besides sharing stories about the fun each one has had with this game. I wish I could experience again the first time I played this game.
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What I love the most in this game are those varied chantings of supporters. I missed them in SWOS. It was also too easy to score a goal when you know how to do it. However for me this is still the best footie on Amiga.
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I prefer Kick off, by far. This game was designed for those who can't Master Kick off 2.
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Famous masterpiece with great playability / perfect overview perspective / different tournaments & some kind of after touch tackling ! Brilliant in every aspect ! As good as kick off or just 10/10 !
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The original and the best. So many options, I loved the made up teams like Eastenders and colours etc. I'm sorry people but it will never get better than this when it comes to football games. For those of us who had this when it first came out, ask yourself, Do you really get the same buzz out of the latest FIFA incarnation? Nope. Didn't think so
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I loved this game. I have organized many championship league with my friends.
Ball controll is a dream, even if sometimes goalkeeper was a poo.
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The game that started it all. My life passion started here.
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Used to love this game. We edited so many teams back then it was just ridiculous. It was very easy though, and winning 13-0 wasn't exactly rare.
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Aahh great memories.
I played it with winuae again and as I heard the stunning main menu music after more than 10 years again I remembered everything as if it was yesterday.
the "96/97" version is still the best but the first one is also still very good.
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Creat game. Infact my version is 1.2. My brother used to cheat in this game. Everytime he played against some one who hadn't played this game before he gave a joystick to another player but actually he played alone against computer. And Won
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Famous football themed pinball game. One of the first games to utilise “dynamic difficulty”. Meaning you can play a great game of pinball for 89 minutes and be up 5 goals to nil and the CPU will still score 6 goals in the last minute and beat you. Which is always absolutely hilarious. Many gamers are so overcome by hilarity that they are driven to throw their joysticks at the television screen. Every goalkeeper in the game plays like Neville Southall in his prime. Making 5 impossible saves before breakfast. Unless you’re leading 5 goals to nil in the last minute. In which case your goalkeeper plays like a land mine victim.
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Days of playing ... I loved the game and its various ad on's. The one and only soccer game (I always prefered this one to Kick Off). It was so hard (at the begining) to win (what ever World Cup or League) but I played it nevertheless and improved. And won the World Cup. Yeah. And now? Thank's to WINUAE I just restarted. Again trying to win the world Cup.
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Best sports game on the Amiga, it's got to be.
The team customization options were mental but awesome, the gameplay as music was also very good. It gave you the highlights of your match too, class.
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This is the version I had and I played the living hell out of it. Loved this game!! It made me a bit of a footyball fan. I'm from the US, but in the early 90s I discovered all the huge and wonderful Amiga euro-mags (I still have them all!!). A little town near me (where there happens to be a gigantic nuclear power plant) had a little Amiga/PC store. I used to buy these from the owner of the store after the owner's hubby got done with them. My "every other week" visits to that store were a highlight of my life at the time since it was right on my way home. I really miss that. Anyway, this game was all the rage in those mags and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why, from looking at the screen shots. Well, after buying it I discovered the goodness of this game. It was as perfect as perfect could be. You didn't even have to be a fan of the sport to enjoy it. Like someone else said, you "feel" this game at one point and it just takes you to that happy gamer place!! Who needs fancy 3D characters when a game works this great?
ONe of a kind. I love it and always will! Cannon Fodder was quite enjoyable too because of those little dudes in the game that look just like the ones here. :up:
10/10
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Despite I didn't understand all the entusiastic reviews of the era, it's a simple and nice game to enjoy for more than a few minutes
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I was more of a Kick Off fan, but this rocked anyway. You won't find anywhere a game with this feel.
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Subsequent editions kept improving but this was groundbreaking in itself. Years of fun. I also remember that 'The One' first goal wins demo. Was it the same one where you could play a proper game or as oranges Vs bananas with a peanut for a ball. And no, I wasn't on drugs in 1992.
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Still a good laugh now and then. I've always loved the custom teams editor, perhaps even more so than the gameplay. Welcome to my world.
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A top game, regardless
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The atrocious goalkeepers in this first version ruined it.
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Anyone remember the demo disc from "The One Amiga" magazine? Two-player, first goal wins...the amount of hours playing that demo through ther night was ludicrous. Did anyone ever play kick-off again?
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Brilliant soccer game! Better than Kick Off 2! And I really liked the team editor!
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For a game made up a few dodgey pixels that could probably be emulated on a zx80 this game is fantastic, the last football game I actually enjoyed and played more than just for the first week I had it. Customising the teams was fun , brill
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Sensible Soccer isn't the most realistic take on the sport. Perhaps it feels more like a table soccer than the real thing. But that's besides the point. The point is Sensi Soccer has the idea of playability, more so than in any other game I have played on any system. The playability fuses with your spine. You don't need to think how to control the players. You feel it. You know where they are, when to control them and how to control them. It's almost like a symbiotic relationship between you and Amiga.
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When it first came it had their critics... But it was still a very funny game which none had seen before. The referee is bad here and the goalkeepers also... Sensible Software and Renegade improved those things for the better in their next game, also called version 1.1
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The first version of Sensible soccer....
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The first football game (since Match Day II) on the CPC464 that had me TOTALLY hooked...
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