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(PC) Sensible Soccer Series (SWOS 96/97 & Sensible Soccer 2006) - £1.86 - GoG

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Probably wasted on todays youth Classic games in my opinion,

360 controller support and full audio commentry.

What's cool about it:
Choose between being a player, a coach, or a player-coach for any one of the 1,500 Club and National teams.
Features more than 26,000 real-life-players with accurate personal statistics!
Manage one or more teams throughout a 20 season career and take your team all the way to the European Cup Final
Overview:
Sensible World of Soccer 96-97 edition is the best and last installment of the most popular soccer series. It’s bursting with every feature you could ever want in a football manager sim. Sensible World of Soccer is brimming with 26,000+ real-life players, each one with carefully researched statistics and abilities, 144 competitions, from the local tournament all the way to the European Cup Final. Full career records and the unique scouting feature allows you to track and observe a player’s progress and evaluate their contribution to your team. If management is not your style then dive into the action and play for your team. Be prepared to lose quite a few nights’ sleep as you take your team from being a bunch of nobodies to all-time champions, in this 1990s favorite soccer game! Or "football", as we call it in Europe.
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  1. MrMarvin's avatar
    For me Kick off 2 edge it
  2. pr2thej's avatar
    Time to lead the mighty Forest back to being a football superpower!
  3. mathewwhite's avatar
    pr2thej

    Time to lead the mighty Forest back to being a football superpower!



    Its only a computer game, not a miracle maker 8n)
  4. Deen_Gray's avatar
    Still the best football game I've ever played for addiction and game play!
  5. Fredoo's avatar
    What a classic game,

    As a teenager, I would spend hours on end playing this.

    Forget Fifa and PES,

    This is the No.1 Footie game next to the original days of Championship Manager.

    Wish they would bring it to Playstation etc.

  6. timeforheroes's avatar
    Best footie game ever
  7. Tyranicus66's avatar
    Had this on the amiga 500. Epic entertainment.
  8. BriBhoy67's avatar
    Needs to be played on an Amiga 600/1200, on a 14inch telly using a competition pro joystick.

    I used to have a shoe box full of spare microswitches and screwdrivers etc so I could repair joysticks that broke down mid game. The way you used to rive the joystick backwards & forwards adding height & curve etc to the ball used to absolutely ruin joysticks
  9. deleted719084's avatar
    Great game!


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    This one killed my free time back in the day

  10. stupet11's avatar
    Just gotta post on this!

    My friend had the original kick off on an Amiga, and that was all the excuse I needed to buy one for, erm college. Dad went halves with me. He did query the need for a joystick for college work, bless him.

    Kick off was good....trapping a ball and watching some one steam in and tackle you, and fall over - as good as a goal. And over head kicks! But compared to Seni, it was pinball.

    I first discovered Seni on a cover disk (floppy disks!) on Amiga Power....a demo that finished when you scored a goal. Blew me away! And I had had girlfriends too by this time! It was the equivalent of undoing that first bra....

    I think I bought every mag that reviewed it, and was there on release day with my £24.99. It was kick off slowed down, so you could do skills...Subbuteo compared to Table Football. Without having to get the iron out.

    Kick off incarnations spoiled it really....KO 2 being the best version. But Sensi kept getting better....with a basic management mode, buying palyers, having star players....speedy players with poor ball control or skillful players that were slow!

    You could even design some funky kits. What more could a boy (erm, in my mid 20's by time the last one came out!) want???

    Why oh why did they not continue to develop this, keeping the basic format? Would have been fab on the handhelds.

    Bought the mega drive version that plugs into tv recently with canon fodder and meglo manie. One play and in the bottom draw. Needs a joystick! That;s why it was so popular....joystick, pot noodles, **** - that's what boys want!
  11. OptimusPrimeval's avatar
    Ah the memories
  12. deleted1075301's avatar
    Hot, simply because I wasted a good few months of my life during my teens playing this beauty or an earlier version anyway. I wouldn't go near it again as sometimes nostalgia has a way of booting you in the balls.

    (edited)
  13. deleted175778's avatar
    When games came in proper cardboard boxes with a thick manual & 6 floppy disks.

    Good times
  14. antf83's avatar
    I like to leave this game alone. So many good memories. It reminds me of being a kid. Happy days but it makes me sad!
    Amazing game.
  15. MrBishnakov's avatar
    Ah the memories. Reminds me of these classics.

    The Original
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    The European version
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    The best version
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    Notable mentions from a bygone era
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    Oh, to be 8 years old again.

  16. TH3R4POR's avatar
    mergleb

    I would say that the Sensible Soccer game first came out about 2002 so it … I would say that the Sensible Soccer game first came out about 2002 so it is about 12 years old.And no I don't really like any of the soccer games as they have little graduated feel.


    ...and yet this SWOS is clearly labelled 96/97 season, do you think they released it as retro game from brand new?
    (edited)
  17. dogphish's avatar
    Great game. happy days.
  18. deleted646063's avatar
    BuzzDuraband

    Just to point out the reviews on GoG for SS06 don't look overly … Just to point out the reviews on GoG for SS06 don't look overly impressive, But SWOS seems to have no issues, I have included separate links and prices, You choose ;)Sensible World of Soccer 96-97 - £1.05Sensible Soccer 2006 - £1.16



    What platform? Are they Xbox One screenshots Buzz?
  19. HUX1's avatar
    Cant understand why this hasn't been re released as an App. They would make a killing
  20. Fredoo's avatar
    BuzzDuraband

    SWOS is on Xbox Live (360) I'm not sure about PS though.



    Hey thanks for that,

    Thank you for sharing.
  21. pr2thej's avatar
    KirstyB87

    No Messi and Ronaldo



    retrocollect.com/New…tml

    That should solve that problem at least!
  22. Mark43's avatar
    SWOS, the last football game I actually enjoyed playing, fantastic game.

    As for an iOS/Android version, touch screen controls would be turd as with most games.
  23. Clipper's avatar
    My favourite games growing up - Microprose soccer, kick off 2 and player manager. The skill is those was immense.
  24. sterlingdeal's avatar
    Classic game, the number of joypads I broke with this game was countless
  25. DanielsanDeals's avatar
    Aftertouch baby! Bend it like Beckham.
  26. tinkerbell2008's avatar
    heat from me!!! best game ever back in the day! awesome. I used to be on it all day & night. my mate was really good at it & would come round & beat me. so I closed my curtains & ignored the door in the end. my competitive streak lol
  27. jazlabs's avatar
    Makes me want to get the Amiga 600 out the loft! Best game ever.
  28. deleted110251's avatar
    I used to play up, brother used to play down...absolute classic...loving the outpouring of love for this game...it's as if SWOS has died...never...all time classic...
  29. MattGoo's avatar
    Best game ever. I have a version of this on PC, and an Amiga emulated version.
    Might have to load a quick (hours!) game of this
  30. PurplePerson's avatar
    BuzzDuraband

    For anybody interested......SWOS 13/14 Update for GoG's SWOS 96/97



    How on earth was I supposed to resist after this nugget? It's a bit unrealistic though. It has Phil Jones valued at 2.2 million... which is clearly about 2 million too much. X)

    Now to recreate the old custom formation I had, that I called the 'corkscrew'. Thing of beauty it was... devastating beauty.
  31. Wongo's avatar
    wow this and Cannon Fodder on the Amiga 1200, memories.
  32. bisky's avatar
    loved this game, impossible not to buy it,

    is this not the same for free though?

    myabandonware.com/gam…2by
  33. Monkeybumcheeks's avatar
    Voted cold...Get away from my top spot duraband !!X)
  34. juux's avatar
    mergleb

    BEWARE this game is about 10 years old and the graphics and more … BEWARE this game is about 10 years old and the graphics and more specifically the collision routines may appear to be poor incomparison to modern soccer games.



    10? Try nearly 20, with the core SS engine being (I think) nearly 23 years old.

    Also, collision routines? I think developers had these down pat for sprite-based games in the 80s, never mind the 90s.

    SWOS is perfection, you never feel cheated by any nonsense like dodgy collisions. Worry not about shader counts, hardware tessellation and volumetric lighting and just play.

    Perhaps FIFA 14 is more your style of footy game?
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  35. deleted242925's avatar
    DamienB

    I had the Mega CD version which came with some funky digital audio … I had the Mega CD version which came with some funky digital audio soundtracks. It also had the crowd chants as Redbook Audio so I used to play it in my CD player whilst playing Subbuteo.Also have the Atari Jaguar version. Nothing really stand out about it except for it being a retro game on an actual Atari... technically



    Get the **** out this topic you console ****. This Sir, is for computer loving memories not for you with a lame console flashback. In fact can we get rid of this guy JFK style? ;-)

    I had a jaguar too. Avp was the best and scariest game I played.
  36. DamienB's avatar
    Yeah in my later years I know that was the case, but it was my Dad's computer so I didn't have much say in the matter. Just played whatever copied floppies he brought back from his mate's.

    Press 'T' for trainer mode
  37. shempz's avatar
    I used to play this to death as a teenager - I used a Competition Pro 5000 and also a Zipstick.

    Used to use a draft excluder or towel to prevent any light escaping from the bottom of my bedroom door, and I'd put a pillow over the disk drive of my Amiga 1200 to muffle the sound - so my parents had no idea I was playing this until god knows what time at night.

    Record score in a 3min match....43-0

    Ah, the memories.
  38. stupet11's avatar
    I always thought Kick Off 2 was for arcade game players....and SWOS for footballers.....KO2 was the headless wingers or the 'ave it brigade, SWOS was for the Dennis Bergkamps...cultured!
  39. TH3R4POR's avatar
    kjcoolcat

    not related to the post so i apologise now (voted hot though btw).. this … not related to the post so i apologise now (voted hot though btw).. this games got me a bit nostalgic - anyone know how to get King of Boxer on whatever, xbox, PC etc.. ? just had a blast from the past thinking about getting bashed about the ring by Brown Pants



    either using MAME (Amiga Emulator) or online here - vizzed.com/pla…ame
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