A Little Bit Sensible Posted by Peter Parish, 143 days ago
Gravity Gets Me Down
Another Amiga Action giveaway, “Sensible World of Moon Soccer” took a tentative look into the crystal ball of football. Not content with forming a breakaway group in Europe, the mysterious G14 organisation of this dystopian future society had evidently expanded their vast empire of greed to reach, literally, intergalactic levels. Armed with the ability to sell broadcasting rights to the entire universe, rotund chairmen had constructed fabulous stadia across the solar system and purchased a vast array of alien talent to bolster already over-inflated squads. Meanwhile, arguments raged on Earth as to whether it was entirely right and proper that the team should be led into the forthcoming Universal Cup by a two-headed gentleman from Outer Andromeda.
Essentially, this was a limited-play demo of the original Sensible World Of Soccer--with the added quirks of strangely blood-cell shaped craters littering the pitch and player names straight out of the “no vowels please” school of Role Playing Games. The function of the craters became pretty clear the first time a hopeful punt from nippy winger X’nnthzvbn landed in one and spun off in a random direction, encouraging all kinds of attempts to beat the ‘keeper with wacky moon-pox-aided ricochets. Oddly, the ball never drifted off into space when booted too hard.
