Sensisble Soccer
sensiblesoccer.de
sensiblesoccer.de
https://readonlymemory.vg/the-making-of-sensible-soccer/
is fascinating. I've reread it a few times now, and each time it give me an urge to implement a soccer game.
This was before widespread internet or over the air updates, so the developers had to send out patch floppy disks to early buyers (of whom I was one) that made the game usable. I don't remember any other Amiga game that needed to be patched in this way.
After the fixes, it became one of my favourite ever games and I wasted far too much time honing my goal from halfway line skills, and building up title winning teams in management mode before the clubs went bankrupt.
I am judging you.
Kick Off 2, at least on the Amiga was sooo much better. With Sensi, if you run down the pitch, slightly off centre, strike with after touch to the other side, you would more often than not score. With KO2 you had players with genuinely have different abilities, some could score from certain positions, others couldn't.
With some teams a 'long ball' approach worked, others you needed to play to nippy wingers, or maybe even a full back who could charge down the line.
Every player was much of a muchness in sensi, so you really only had to come up with one 'system' to play
I Edwards, FTB Sinclair FTW.
Another I really enjoyed was Manchester United Europe on the Amiga -- though no one seems to ever talk about it, so perhaps it was rubbish!
I still have very fond memories of bringing Barnet FC from the lowest of divisions to the highest, with Henrik Larsson as the top scorer. He was just ridiculously fast.
"Frontier: Elite II" was infamous for its bugs. They sent out patch disks, but these patch disks introduced several new bugs, which meant the process had to be repeated.
Some Amiga magazines carried patches on their cover-mounted disks.
Many (un)happy memories of breaking the microswitches in Quickshot Cobra joysticks playing this game. Or was that Kick Off 2?
15 years ago I stumbled across a "SENSIBLE 11" t-shirt in a shop in South Africa and only recently had to give it up as the moths had got to it. Same font, same pixelated players.
I had (maybe still have) one of those - from a Kickstarter or something? - but even at the time I acquired it, the fit was somewhat tight and now, post-plague, no chance.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/sensible-soccer-european-cham...
Was it not a very popular game outside of Europe?
Also s/sensisble/sensible/?
Although a more serious comparison with Fifa (in terms of visuals and gameplay) could be made by considering I Play 3D soccer: https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/i-play-3-d-soccer/sc... Blows my mind what they managed to achieve technically on an Amiga and even a C64! Too bad the gameplay is mediocre