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- Thread starter Munkfish
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Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I'm grateful for the suggestions. However, I know this is sacrilege, but Subbuteo was gubbins.
Thank god (well, Dino Dini) that Kick Off was eventually invented.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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As good as kick off was (and it was ace) it wasn't as good as sensible soccer which was, is and forever will be the greatest football computer game of all time. For ever and ever. And then some.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Sensible Soccer was ridiculously addictive, very slick and hugely playable, but a touch simplistic (which was part of its charm, but also its slight flaw for me). When Kick Off 2 arrived though, THAT became the daddy. Those raking Dunk-esque long angled crossfield passes into space down the wing...oh yes. Come to papa.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Ah, Kick Off, Kick Off 2, sensible soccer, sensible world of soccer. Kids today with their FIFA don't know what real football games are.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Agreed. Those 16-bit top-down football games were the SHIZ. Mind you, I soon became a massive fan of PES when that came out on the PlayStation. A night round a mates house with a bottle of Thunderbird and a PES tournie...happy days. None of this playing online lark.
Yes! Kick Off 2 was the first football game I had for a games console. It was tremendous. I loved the keepers on it. They'd either make a ridiculous save from a bullet shot, or completely miss a ball trickling slowly towards the goal.
Is the right answer.
The cloth pitches were an UTTER waste of time. HAD to have the astro.
Corrected for you. Hell on earth
portslade seagull
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Didn't they do miniature toy soldiers as well. It was so much fun back then. The T'internet has killed all that
portslade seagull
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What about Striker where you pressed the players head down to make his foot move to kick the ball
Cian
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ToysRUs tried to enter the Irish market to compete with Smyths.
They lasted about 18 months before shuttering.
If a behemoth can't even survive longer than that against a company a tiny fraction of the size; something's wrong.
They lasted about 18 months before shuttering.
If a behemoth can't even survive longer than that against a company a tiny fraction of the size; something's wrong.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I'm starting to suspect that you had a cousin called Kevin, who's sure to go to heaven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgqa3cVOxUc
We banned it in our top leagues.
maltaseagull
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A.A. Bakers in London road used to be my subbuteo shop.
maltaseagull
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Yes! I had hundreds of them.
Someday in the future some archeologist will dick up our old rockery and find all the ones I lost re-enacting WW2 battles.
Wonder what they will conclude?
portslade seagull
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Same here along with tanks and lorrys
