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Title: Best footy game ever
Post by: Red N White Dynamite on May 29, 2007, 12:24:50 PM
I have just purchased Sensible Soccer (International Edition) for the SNES for £4.99.

Best footy game ever or what!
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Jenga on May 29, 2007, 12:29:42 PM
I had Sensible World of Soccer.

I agree the best football game ever.
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on May 29, 2007, 04:58:17 PM
Surely these can't hold a candle to that marvellous football game: Striker?

Hours of fun pressing the players' heads and craftily kicking the ball behind the sofa when you were 1-0 up with only five minutes left to play...

 
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Altysmiffy on May 29, 2007, 09:21:27 PM
Surely these can't hold a candle to that marvellous football game: Striker?

Hours of fun pressing the players' heads and craftily kicking the ball behind the sofa when you were 1-0 up with only five minutes left to play...

 

Damn! I wish I'd thought of that!
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Daycare Dan on May 29, 2007, 10:29:26 PM
Surely these can't hold a candle to that marvellous football game: Striker?


I remember playing the Atari ST version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striker_(sports_video_game) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striker_(sports_video_game))

But Sensi was always better, if hard to see!
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Jezza on May 30, 2007, 09:36:18 AM

I never got the idea of subeuteo and I probably can't spell it.

I had striker but always felt it was too easy to over hit the ball and for the last 5 minutes I would be trying to find the minute ball under the sofa.

The Casdon soccer game was pretty good with a bumpy pitch resembling Droylsden circa 1999.

In the modern age I quite like FIFA on the PS2 but can remember many a happy hour trying to master the controls of the zx spectrum footie game by codemasters before it crashed.
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on May 30, 2007, 12:22:38 PM
The Casdon soccer game was indeed a treat.
I was presented with the 'Bobby Charlton' edition circa 1970 and it whiled away many hours, especially when the ball got perilously trapped behind your goalkeeper.

A friend possessed the Big League football game, which was similar to Striker but involved pulling back the player's leg to kick the ball rather than pressing his head.

Oh, and don't get me started on blow football grudge matches against visiting relatives at Christmas....
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Jezza on May 30, 2007, 02:06:52 PM
Blow football was a right con..two straws, a ping pong ball and a couple of goals also made out of straws in a box with kevin keegan on the front for a fiver.....all about ripping the young football fan off.

So in some ways it was years ahead of its time.
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Red N White Dynamite on May 30, 2007, 02:11:54 PM
Given the nature of the "equipment" required, was it really necessary to buy it as a set?   :)

Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: markecky on May 30, 2007, 03:19:17 PM

In the modern age I quite like FIFA on the PS2 but can remember many a happy hour trying to master the controls of the zx spectrum footie game by codemasters before it crashed.

I can still remember my amazment when a game came out and you could redefine keys..I always used z and x for left and right, k and m for up and down and space so shoot.
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Jacko on May 30, 2007, 03:55:33 PM
Italia 90 on the MEGA DRIVE!!! :D i remember being able to score a goal with 5 overhead kick passes! 
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Ballers on May 30, 2007, 04:04:37 PM
Premier manager for me, circa 1992.

In many ways I was well ahead of my time as I had cheating and money laundering down to a fine art.

You could have upto a 4 player game, so I would enter 4 teams, Alty, Macc, Vics and Wycombe. I took out huge overdrafts/loans/mortgages on the last 3, sold their best players, also sold the ones I wanted at Alty to us for the minimum price you could bid (imagine the other clubs fury at Tinson moving to Alty for £50k less than they had bid). I then sold them the likes of Lee Spencer, Steve Strange and Paul Jones for...well basically every penny they had before quitting as their supremo/chief assest stripper.  ;D

I then had the funds I wanted for Alty and turned Moss Lane into a palace as well, secretly used to throw games at the end of the season so I could have another succesful seadon in the conference, which alledgedly was de riguer at the time too.

O'Neill Donaldson, think he was at Doncaster, I know he went on to play for Sheff Wed in real life but he was THE man, had him in my side and he was Swindells esque! well 55 odd goals a season anyway 8)
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Daycare Dan on May 30, 2007, 07:38:47 PM
The original FIFA on the Mega Drive, where all players looked the same, played the same, but you could run away from the ref and he could not book you until he caught you, bizzar!

I also had "Paul Gascoigne" football (or that could have been "Kick Off") on the Spectrum, the players were see through!
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: radcliffe alty on May 30, 2007, 09:28:45 PM
It's Sensible Soccer for me on SNES everytime. Nearly failed my exams due to that game. I liked the whole raft of different teams you could have and had cracking games as my favourites 'Musical Instruments' against such footballing powers as 'Root Vegetables', and 'Big Band'.

And don't get me started on Goldeneye on the N64..........
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: radcliffe alty on May 30, 2007, 09:31:07 PM
Oh......and World Cup on the Amstrad 64 had a cracking renedition of Match of the Day whilst loading but was the most frustrating game to play ever. Every player was slower than Gary Talbot and every shot took as long to get anywhere as a Steve Aspinall floated free kick....and invariably went just as wide of the target.
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Alex on May 31, 2007, 12:24:08 AM
clearly you all forget fifa 98 with the five a side mode. endless games of that with the mates.  ;D ;D ;D

well thats my vote cast i'm a bit young for most of the stuff your mentioning daycare (how old does that make you feel  ;)) only kiddin fella
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Alex on May 31, 2007, 12:27:04 AM
And don't get me started on Goldeneye on the N64..........

best non footy game ever IMO
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Jimmy Hill on May 31, 2007, 12:47:13 AM
I loved this one when I was a youngster:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/European_club_soccer.jpg)
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: teasybeaver on May 31, 2007, 10:15:43 AM
I loved this one when I was a youngster:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/European_club_soccer.jpg)

This game was class, the graphics were years ahead of its time and if you got beat in the final you ended up playing about 15 random special finals against south american teams. This defo gets my vote!

Although I have to say that me an Frosty have tested our friendship to the max with some pretty heated Pro Evo sessions, it knocks the bollox off any fifa game!
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: thegazelle on May 31, 2007, 11:11:57 AM
All these soccer games , most of which i havent got a clue about are beaten to a pulp by a geography text book stolen from barrel watkins cupboard a pen and a two differnent coloured dice one for home team score and one for away team. do the draw for the Facup and away you go . i invented handicap systems and usually alty won the FA cup

spent hours playing wembley, the board game, before we discovered the moss.

but best ever sports game by a cocked hat is / was howzat . still have books and books (thanks Barrell) of old test matches and challenge games, Bob ratcliffe won the batting averages one year
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: bighairedmike on May 31, 2007, 12:05:47 PM
Does anybody remember Tecmo Cup Football Game  on the genesis. It was class, more like a role-play game because when you come into contact with an opponent you get to choose whether to pass/shoot/dribble etc. theres some story to it and you end up having to win the world cup i think.

everyone looks the same its just changes in hair/eye colour. Remember playin it with my uncle at about 4/5 years old. happy days.
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Ballers on May 31, 2007, 01:37:39 PM
but best ever sports game by a cocked hat is / was howzat . still have books and books (thanks Barrell) of old test matches and challenge games, Bob ratcliffe won the batting averages one year

Howzat? As in rolling the dice /pushing the pencil to simulate Test Cricket. If so marvellous, many an hour doing that. A quick game regularly morphed into an entire Ashes tour down under against State sides, build up to Tests etc. :D
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Ballers on May 31, 2007, 01:41:17 PM
And don't get me started on Goldeneye on the N64..........

Happy years at university! Me and the lads in our halls loved it, connoseurs. We played Licence to Kill (i.e. 1 shot and your dead), great for the likes of me who weren't great at the general game and so so tense, many a standoff just trying to get the right angle. Think we had a corridor of gorgeous girls wanting our attention and wanting to go out while we all sat there transfixed. Usually, there was more than 4 of us so finishing last or in the bottom half was equivalent to relegation!  ;D
Title: Re: Best footy game ever
Post by: Amsterdam Alty on May 31, 2007, 01:54:47 PM
Very Much the best game ever! Goldeneye, set a major precident for what aFPS had to be! how perfect dark managed to be so off the mark with the same games engine i will never know!