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Playing Footballer of the Year (C64)

Cybergoth

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Hi there!

 

Yup, Footballer of the Year is a sports game:

 

footballeroftheyear.gif

 

Of ourse, it's not a real soccer game, but just one of those ever popular soccer managers ;)

 

I even owned it as kid, it came with a compilation from Gremlin called "10 Great Games". Actually "9 Average and 1 Good Game" would've been a much more appropriate title, but it sure was a lot to play for the price of one :lolblue:

 

This soccer manager has a totally unique twist: You're not managing a team, but just one single player! As the title suggest, you want to become the "Footballer of the Year".

 

So at the beginning you create a player and choose a team, but you can easily transfer to another team if you want to. During normal league play, you can use so called "goal cards". This'll give you a random 1-3 chances to score a goal in a game. In the screen above you see the (ugly) goalscene minigame. Of course you can still lose a match, if the other team scores 5 goals against your team, even when you alone scored 3. It's just beyond your control. Of course if you really manage to add 3 goals for your team in a game, chances of winning are pretty good.

 

Tonight I played a first season. It went pretty good, but of course I didn't instantly become the Footballer of the Year :)

 

Not sure what the winning conditions are, maybe tomorrow I'll figure out some more.

 

Greetings,

Manuel

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Nathan Strum

I grew up playing soccer as a little kid. In fact, it seems most kids play soccer in the U.S., but few of them ever continue with it. I guess it just never became big enough business here to sustain the professional leagues. Probably too short of a collective attention span. ;)

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Cybergoth

Buggy Trash! :D

 

That stupid program had my team relegated, even though we ended the league on the #1 spot and won both the UEFA and the League Cup! ;) ;) :D

 

WAAAHHHH! Never trust a sports game!

 

That's it, I'm leaving! :D

 

Some future day Never will the "Playing..." series see it's sequel "Footballer of the Year 2", instead it'll continue with something fast.

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vdub_bobby
I grew up playing soccer as a little kid. In fact, it seems most kids play soccer in the U.S., but few of them ever continue with it. I guess it just never became big enough business here to sustain the professional leagues. Probably too short of a collective attention span. ;)

Actually, there are several professional soccer leagues in the US that are profitable, or seem to be, anyway. They just haven't (and won't IMO) ever really rival the big pro sports leagues in the US: baseball, football, and basketball.

 

I think the market for pro sports is too crowded at this point to get a critical mass of young fans.

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