Whatever happened to the 'brutal future sports' genre? There used to be loads of them. I recently acquired it for my Megadrive, and that's a pretty solid port too, although pretty bare bones when it comes to game play modes compared to other Megadrive sports games like FIFA Soccer and NHL Hockey. (In fact the publisher *literally* went under, the owner Robert Maxwell fell off his yacht and drowned.) The reason the C64 port isn't so well known is that the publisher went under a short time after release and all stock was recalled. The players are smaller and you can see a lot more of the pitch at once which makes a proper passing game easier to play. It's not very well known, but I think it actually plays better than the 16 bit versions of the game. In the end we never really clicked with it though, and moved on to Sensible Soccer as our game of choice for two player battles.Ī couple of years later there was a port of Speedball 2 to the Commodore 64. It reminded me a lot of the Blood Bowl board game actually, buying star players, trying to injure the opposition players etc. I was never any good at it, but I liked the setting and the simple management aspects it had in the single player mode. I first encountered the sequel on a friends Amiga, long before I owned one myself. Nothing to say on the first game, never played it unfortunately. Three word review : Brutal timeless classic. That was, and always will be good enough for me. I never bothered playing the remake that came out a while back simply because the original was still so good and whenever I wanted a game I'd just fire up and emulator and spend an hour or so right back there having fun. Really nice memories of playing this game as a kid, yeah. My school friends and I even named our five-a-side footy team Brutal Deluxe (a reference somewhat lost on our teachers but we didn't care). I remember we took our console with us when we went to stay with family in the countryside as kids and our ancient cousin (who probably only would have been about 25 looking back!) played it with us all day long. I loved the fact you could upgrade your players stats, and from what I remember there was a fairly deep championship/career mode which I ploughed hours/days/months in to. We both had our tactics, he'd go for goals and I'd go for the multipliers and various point targets around the arena. My brother and I absolutely played it to death. We were eventually caught and reprimanded severely, but it was worth it! I got my own copy on the Sega Master System a couple of years later, and thought it was an excellent version (I've played it again recently and its held up surprisingly well). We used to sneak out of school on our lunch breaks (highly forbidden) and play this on his computer. A school friend owned an Amiga, and to the rest of us playing on our Amstrads and Spectrums it seemed like full on arcade quality games in the comfort of your home. I never played the original, but have fond memories of the sequel.
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