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Wow, MicroProse Soccer right hit Steam clean

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Long before EA started churning out time period FIFA games thither was Cognisant Soccer. And before Sensible Soccer, at that place was MicroProse Soccer. IT was a popular Commodore 64 title formulated past Sensible Package (yes—they of Sensible Soccer fame) and released in 1988, though in the United States it was initially released as Keith Van Eron's In favou Soccer.

As set out of Ziggurat Games' mission to shovel tons of buried retro classics onto Steamer, it's now available to buy. The euphony is terrible, granted, but the art are sure to delight anyone with a lingering fondness for the 8-bit home computer epoch. It looks like this is the MS-DOS version as information technology's running through DOSBox, so it's definitely not the best variation of the game, just hey, it's still a nice slice of history.

Hera's some footage:

MicroProse Association football was beautiful popular at the time, only Sensible Association football definitely upstaged it ahead bit by bit declining in popularity through the belated '90s, making way for the dominance of FIFA and PES. Keister we get Actua Soccer next, please?

It's part of a big Ziggurat retro drop this month: strange unearthed gems include some old Data Eastward arcade games, corresponding the 1991 platformer Caveman Ninja and isometric fulfill RPG Gate of Doom.

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