Hello!
To-ooh-day is Wednesday (Wednesday!), to-ooh-morrow's Thursday (Thursday!), we so excited, we so excited...
Enough of that guff, who feels nostalgic? Check this out, yo. Back in the day (first time I might have ever said that), computer games were actually sometimes played on a computer. Expensive things called Amigas which you begged your dad all year for and who used to sponsor Chelsea in the 1993/94 season.
The best game on the Amiga was a little piece of magic called 'Sensible Soccer', potentially the worst name for a game ever but what a little gem it was.
The game play was rigid and laughable compared to today's standard, but it was thoroughly addictive.
We used to have a thing called a joystick which had ONE button you used to tackle, pass, cross and shoot with, and there were no tricks aside from being able to curl the ball, score free kicks and take corners.
What did set it apart from other football games of the time and before it was the season mode, the first of it's time which allowed you to buy and sell players, which was a pre-cursor to the likes of FIFA and Pro-Evo.
I remember buying Claudio Cannigia for United who was brilliant due to his pace, and another brilliant forward was, erm, Stan Collymore.
If you could afford him, Romario too was the best player in the game and you'd usually win games 12-6 and similar score-lines which added to the realism of actual football.
Happy days...
To-ooh-day is Wednesday (Wednesday!), to-ooh-morrow's Thursday (Thursday!), we so excited, we so excited...
Enough of that guff, who feels nostalgic? Check this out, yo. Back in the day (first time I might have ever said that), computer games were actually sometimes played on a computer. Expensive things called Amigas which you begged your dad all year for and who used to sponsor Chelsea in the 1993/94 season.
The best game on the Amiga was a little piece of magic called 'Sensible Soccer', potentially the worst name for a game ever but what a little gem it was.
The game play was rigid and laughable compared to today's standard, but it was thoroughly addictive.
We used to have a thing called a joystick which had ONE button you used to tackle, pass, cross and shoot with, and there were no tricks aside from being able to curl the ball, score free kicks and take corners.
What did set it apart from other football games of the time and before it was the season mode, the first of it's time which allowed you to buy and sell players, which was a pre-cursor to the likes of FIFA and Pro-Evo.
I remember buying Claudio Cannigia for United who was brilliant due to his pace, and another brilliant forward was, erm, Stan Collymore.
If you could afford him, Romario too was the best player in the game and you'd usually win games 12-6 and similar score-lines which added to the realism of actual football.
Happy days...
