ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2018 Entry 6th September 2018: Post 01: Amiga - SWOSTED Amiga - SWOSTED Sensible World of Soccer ... simply the greatest game ever made. AND WHY !!! cus no other game in my opinion provides so much on just two floppy disks. From the game interface you can play any team in any league in the world. This includes all the game data about every player in the world including all the reserves in a complete Team B for every team in the world. And it gets better. You can be called upon to coach any of the national squads and again be able to play any of the world national teams. All data on players then changes and become a star coding identifying the best players around the world. Not only can you play as player v player, but also player v computer and the third and best option, coach v coach or computer v computer. The third option is my favourite cus when I launch the game I do nothing but simply watch and or listen to the games. This is my ideal game cus it means I can play and do other things. I just listen out for the cheers when a goal is scored. I can watch all the goals again as highlights and even save the best bits to disk. It really is a bottomless pit of football fun and the detail on players and teams is immense. For years you were able to update teams and I have a full box of SWOS installers that I bought over the years. Even with the most complex of console games like FIFA there is still no comparable game that matches the depth to SWOS. I have struggled so much with FIFA. Also the Amiga footballing coach games came in various formats BUT, and again the big BUT none took an award winning football game like Sensible Soccer and then bolted on a football management game... and still did this on two DD Amiga disks. NOT EVEN HD but 2x850K DD floppy disks. And when you update you actually update the original disks. There wasn't even a need to create a third disk. For gaming ingenuity and brilliant programming and research second to none Sensible World of Soccer is in my opinion the greatest game ever produced. Nothing comes close... and I have played games on every platform and still do. This game never ceases to amaze me. As crude as the graphics are you still get the full flavour of a football match. And if that wasn't enough you can create your own custom teams and leagues and design your own kits. Incredible. I was so pleased when I obtained the hard drive installer. I have all my favourite teams saved to disk plus all my best goals. The fun is taking a lowly team in the bottom most league and coaching them to the premier and winning the European Cup. Magic. Anyway here is my tribute to Sensible World of Soccer. Amiga SWOS My box of soccer tricks. Was such a relief to get the HD installer. Cus I had worn my disks out. Please note that Sensible World of Soccer is not and I repeat NOT Sensible Soccer. So many updates to this game. I think I bought every PD release. I started playing the original game Sensible Soccer on the Amiga 500. I use to go around my sisters house and her son had all his mates round with their disk boxes and we played leagues all day Sunday sometimes. Classic. I still have all my SWOS save disks from the various years playing. I even used football books to track all the players in each of the teams. That's Mr Shearer with hair. And all the names were in the game. There were literally thousands and thousands. So we fire up an unexpanded Amiga.. Jermaine. Plug in the SpeedKing. And install the software. DRAT.. Out of memory. No worries.. I enlist the use of another computer.. As you do. Read on

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