The game consists of two different soccer simulations, you can carry out a match in the stadium or indoors. The field is always shown from the top and scrolled softly into all directions.
Different game modes make for diversity. Up to 15 players can enter their names and then compete with each other in a league. One can also take part in a World Cup, whereby the venue corresponds to the one of a real World Cup. The computer takes over the controls of as many teams as needed. A two-player friendly can be played head to head.
The game offers features as "banana kick", "action replay" and weather.
The original was developed by Sensible Software for the C64, Electronic Pencil Company were responsible for the Amiga and Atari ST versions.
MicroProse™ Soccer, developed by MicroProse and Sensible Software and published by Ziggurat, is a reissued classic that captures an era when sports games were built around immediacy and feel rather than simulation accuracy. Returning to it today is less about comparing it to modern football titles and more about appreciating a design philosophy that...
