SENSIBLE SOCCER - A RETROSPECTIVE | Commodore Amiga (1992 - ONWARDS)

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Sensible Soccer for the Commodore Amiga - often called Sensi, is an association football video game series which was highly popular in the early 1990s and which still retains a cult following
It was developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga and Atari ST computers in 1992 as well as for the PC. The series was created by Jon Hare and Chris Yates, as a successor to their previous football game MicroProse Soccer (1988), which in turn was inspired by the arcade video game Tehkan World Cup (1985)
Here I take a walk down memory lane to revisit the origins of where my Commodore Amiga gaming took its first steps... pure nostalgia
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00:00 Introduction
00:11 Sensible Soccer Origins
01:25 MicroProse Soccer
02:02 What Is Sensible Soccer?
02:47 The Control System
03:55 Sounds & Fluidity Of The Game
05:08 Scoring Goals
05:58 Sensible Soccer v1.2
07:09 Custom Team Creation
07:35 Sensible World Of Soccer (SWOS)
07:58 Goal Scoring Superstar Hero
08:23 Changes In SWOS
09:02 Management Mode
09:35 Massive Database Of Players
10:12 Atmospheric Games
10:43 Beating The Goalkeeper
11:15 "Accrington Stanley - Who Are They?"
11:31 My Thoughts
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  • @StooCambridgeArtist
    @StooCambridgeArtist Жыл бұрын

    Lovely stuff! Who'd have thought all these years later Sensi would be so fondly remembered and played! Cheers! It's Sensi'tastic! ⚽👍

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    The one thing am glad about is that the graphics of the player sprites remained the same throughout. Its those awesome 12 pixel high sprites that we all remember the most about the game. Iconic for Sensible Software games and therefore you definitely deserve massive credit there ❤️😇🕹👌 definitely defined a whole new genre

  • @ScouseHouseClassics
    @ScouseHouseClassics Жыл бұрын

    Still the best footy game ever

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely, still play it now... although am pretty shocking at it these days. Am blaming my slower reflexes hehe 😇🕹👌

  • @wolfelovesjol4evayea
    @wolfelovesjol4evayeaАй бұрын

    You’re completely right - when my brothers and I put this on back in the early 90s, it really wasn’t that hard to convince ourselves we were watching the real thing. The level of authenticity they managed to achieved through such a simple format was fantastic. SWOS was the best game ever.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Ай бұрын

    Still has to be the best football game out there for me, purely based on the arcade style action where you could just 'get a game going' without all the new fandangled control systems of modern football games. Tap to pass. Hold to shoot. What more did we need back in the early 90s 😇🕹️👌

  • @ponchostoybox
    @ponchostoybox Жыл бұрын

    One of the best games ever alongside its sensible companion cannon fodder!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh course, Cannon Fodder is another absolutely fantastic and incredibly addictive game. Sensible Software had the chemistry for gaming spot on 😇🖱👌

  • @dennisdistant
    @dennisdistant12 күн бұрын

    Ah man. You just reminded me of the Euros of 1992. How we didn't manage to win that year with players like De Boer, Rijkaard, Bergkamp, Van Basten, Gullit that year still amazes and hurts me to this day. Great game too!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    12 күн бұрын

    Holland were unstopabble back in the early 90s. I particularly liked Richard Witschge, he was superb if you had him on Sensible Soccer! He also played for Blackburn Rovers for 1 game... which is the town I lived in back in the early 90s. Funny thing was - an unimpressed Witschge later made an outspoken attack on Blackburn, branding the Lancashire town and its inhabitants "poor and ugly" hahaha... he was right though! 😇🕹️👌

  • @kommissar.murphy
    @kommissar.murphy Жыл бұрын

    Such a brilliant game.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Still definitely one of the very best football games ever made 😇🕹⚽️👌

  • @stewsretroreviews
    @stewsretroreviews2 ай бұрын

    110% the best football game still around mate, just started playing this again, as my Amiga has just been fixed after 20 odd yrs in the loft 😂 Brilliant stuff dude! 👍

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    2 ай бұрын

    You're not kidding, this is the ultimate best football game ever made for pure addictiveness by far. Good to see you're getting your Amiga out and playing it in its native form.... pure nostalgia, as soon as the intro music comes on its like a rush of pure excitement. It also brings me right back those early times almost instantly 😇🕹👌

  • @stewsretroreviews

    @stewsretroreviews

    2 ай бұрын

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer The music still takes me back mate too👍 great times 😊

  • @GKitz211
    @GKitz211Күн бұрын

    "Sensible Soccer " was ever on par with "Kick Off 2" for me. Both are still the prime football-games in 2024.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Күн бұрын

    Yeah, Sensi is still an absolutely fantastic game. 2 player mode. Few cans of beer. Brilliant for 'games days' with friends & family 😇🕹👌

  • @stigkenobi7525
    @stigkenobi7525 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic game. I remember one that was almost identical. Football Glory, I think it was. You could do volleys and bicycle kicks in it, and you had streakers running onto the pitch. Other than that it was basically a copy of this.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Football Glory was decent although a lot 'wilder'.. in that you could slide tackle players from 20 yards away. Making for a fast frantic football experience 😇🕹⚽️👌

  • @MorrisseysMonkey
    @MorrisseysMonkey Жыл бұрын

    Used to play this with our kid back in the day and always thrashed him! 😂👍⚽👟💥

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha aye I had some epic games with my brother on this - my greatest achievement was winning the Champions League with some tin top team from the Faroe Isles. All I needed was a decent keeper and Tim Sherwood. Cheap midfielder from Blackburn Rovers but he could whack it hard from outside the box 🤣😇⚽️🕹👌

  • @leeannewillson7342
    @leeannewillson7342 Жыл бұрын

    many an hour was spent playin this series back in the day

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Such an iconic game series. I particularly loved SWOS.. I think I won the Champions League with Ítróttarfelag Fuglafjarðar, abbreviated to IF, of the Faroe Isles haha some achievement! Dont think I would have those kinds of skills now. I'd just spend all the seasons funds on the best goalkeeper I could afford and hope for the best. Great days 😇🕹️👌

  • @ArttuTheCat
    @ArttuTheCat Жыл бұрын

    SENSIBLE SOCCER Definitely the best soccer game since KICK OFF. Me and my friends played a legendary Amiga game SENSIBLE WORLD OF SOCCER last time in an autumn 2021 😺👍🕹️🕹️. I still have MICROPROSE SOCCER for my Commodore 64 as a disk version in a compilation called SOCCER STARS. I also have MANCHESTER UNITED: PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP for my Amiga 500 - CiB - with the red coloured disks 😺👍.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    I actually enjoyed the Man Utd game, was pretty decent. Am sure I had that for the Mega Drive. The cheat was something like 'three shredded wheat' for the best players 🤣🤣 memories 🕹👌

  • @kommissar.murphy

    @kommissar.murphy

    Жыл бұрын

    The man u game was poor, but the way they recreated that patch on the left side of Old Trafford where the grass would never grow was funny!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha I never noticed that before 😇🕹️👌

  • @jamestoney6108
    @jamestoney61084 ай бұрын

    Such strong memories of playing this, brilliant game

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    4 ай бұрын

    Big time buddy, top game this... I was literally hooked on this. Every night after school I'd fire up the Amiga and play 4 or 5 games before Tea was ready. Then plough through a season straight after - brilliant memories 😇🕹️👌

  • @NordicWolf1975
    @NordicWolf1975 Жыл бұрын

    Spent soooo many hours on these games. Still beats any game today in playfield overview. My neighbour's boyfriend played in the Italian league div 2 or 3. It was surreal having someone I knew in a game.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    That's mad, I had a friend called Lynette Craig and her uncle was playing for Falkirk in Scotland so we used to always buy him for our current squads hahaha a shame he was crap though 🤣🤣😇🕹👌

  • @nickreels
    @nickreels7 ай бұрын

    I played Jon Hare once and drew 2-2. He then thrashed me 4-1 in the second game.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    7 ай бұрын

    I bet your palms were sweaty after holding out 2-2 with the legend himself! That took some doing, as he was at a Play Expo event one year and was thrashing everyone... alas, I wasn't there that day haha 😇🕹️👌

  • @kcchumber
    @kcchumber7 ай бұрын

    The goat of all footy games....

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    7 ай бұрын

    Without a shadow of a doubt. Still just as addictive even after all these years. In fact if it was released today it'd still be the goat 😇🕹👌

  • @kcchumber

    @kcchumber

    7 ай бұрын

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer great review as well 👍

  • @Darkuk
    @Darkuk Жыл бұрын

    I could never learn to love this game. Think I’m the only person!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    No there were many who gave up with pure frustration. My lad is one of them hehe. Mind you, after all these years of practice I should go easy on him now and then but I can't resist 🤣⚽️👌🕹

  • @paulcarson5396
    @paulcarson5396 Жыл бұрын

    Classic. But i have to admit that i preferred Microprose soccer.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Ahh nice, yeah the original classic - I'm just playing kick off 2 now on my old mega drive hehe bringing back some memories 😇🕹👌

  • @chrisatkins2026
    @chrisatkins2026 Жыл бұрын

    Absolute classic on Amiga and far better than the PC version which I thought played too quickly. The version for Amiga got it just right and delivered one of the best football games of all time that still holds up today. The novelty teams were so good too, teams made up of sweet names or biscuit names for example. This format still works today, havent Microprose released something recently that looks identical on Steam? I will say it though... Sensi is way better than Kick Off (in my opinion anyway).

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Am with you that Sensible Soccer was miles better than Kick Off, but am seeing there are many out there who preferred the Dino Dini classic footie game. Too fast on the PC yeah and on the consoles they just seemed to make the game incredibly easy with the 'sticky feet' dribbling... cant beat the classic Amiga Sensi and I'd chose them as my 'go to' versions anyday 😇🕹️👌

  • @petercortens6019
    @petercortens6019 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video! Damn now I have to play a football game :P controls look really sweet

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    It has a steep learning curve as the ball doesn't 'stick' to the feet. Unless you play on a Sega Mega-Drive/Genesis... as they diluted the games controls to give a more authentic arcade feel. However, the Amiga version will always be the flagship Sensible Soccer to really cut your teeth on 😇🕹⚽️👌

  • @UnrealTournament420
    @UnrealTournament4208 ай бұрын

    C64 and Amiga 600 were everything to me ❤

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    8 ай бұрын

    Me also, I know exactly what you mean 😇🕹️👌

  • @raymoreton3184
    @raymoreton31849 ай бұрын

    i am not a huge lover of footie games but i do like this set a lot, there was even an amiga christmas cover disk sensi vs canon called canon soccer it was only tiny but worth the mag just for that, it put a different spin on it and talking of CF you know if a soldier is not fully dead and crying you can still keep shooting him to help him along his way and it still makes a noise.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah - Cannon Soccer, I had that coverdisk too... legendary memories. As for shooting the soldiers, a great feature was that randomly some soldiers would scream out when they'd been shot. There is a video of this on the channel which actually makes a point of this little graphical wizardry that was thrown in by the legendary Jon Hare 😇🕹️👌

  • @disgaea76
    @disgaea76 Жыл бұрын

    swos was the best ever!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Deffo, still has to be right up there amongst the best Amiga games ever and also definitely the most addictive footy game ever made 😇🕹👌⚽️

  • @ritchwaghorn6541
    @ritchwaghorn6541 Жыл бұрын

    Your love for SS in all its versions flows out of this video! I was a fan back in the day of course, but I actually prefer Kick Off 2 nowadays (sacrilege I know) and Player Manager was an awesome game too..

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    It's the nostalgia that comes with it, the hairs on my arms literally stand up when I hear the theme from the original Sensible Soccer at the beginning of the video, as it brings me right back to when I first got my Amiga. Best memories ever 😇🖱🕹👌

  • @cryptohodlouterspace247
    @cryptohodlouterspace2479 ай бұрын

    What a beautiful game. I went through half a dozen joysticks for the amiga playing Sensi heheh. I think it came out for the sega too at some stage, but the ball stuck to the player's feet so it didn't require the skill of the commodore version. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Makes me want to play it again. Now.... where's my amigaCD ?

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    9 ай бұрын

    Yeah, the Sega version was more 'sticky-feet'... its the version that's on the Evercade handheld too which makes it a bit too easy. The Amiga version is and will always be the definitive version of this awesome and purely addictive footie game 😇🕹👌

  • @nustde00
    @nustde00 Жыл бұрын

    Bout time i been keeping up with the back catalog, because the back catalog is keeping up with you!!! So... I thought it was called Football or Footie? That's fun!! Thank you for showing this one off, i just don't see myself bootin up the amiga for it!...ok.... well maybe ;) I just don't know any positions, rules, teams or anything! LOL!!! ohh, I just had a microwavable goblin style steak and kidney pie!! SO AVERAGE!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    I do like me a good Steak & Kidney pie 😇🕹️👌

  • @playaveli
    @playaveliАй бұрын

    Nice 1!! :)

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Ай бұрын

    Superb footie game this one isn't it 😇🕹️👌

  • @Bodyfitcph
    @Bodyfitcph4 ай бұрын

    Best footballgame ever

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    4 ай бұрын

    Absolutely, an awesome game no matter how many years pass... still the best 😇🕹️👌

  • @DJWHITE_
    @DJWHITE_ Жыл бұрын

    Ha! I preferred Fifa International to Sensi but then SWOS came along and was massive!

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Fifa was great for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, as I had that too... but I always will return to SWOS, as it just seemed to be the much more addictive of the two 😇🕹️👌

  • @DJWHITE_

    @DJWHITE_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CheekyCommodoreGamer Right about time I got massively into point and click graphic adventures. Monkey Island, Indy, Tentacle, Sam and Max, full throttle!

  • @naviamiga
    @naviamiga4 күн бұрын

    Love every version, but the scope of SWOS is so great, it really puts every other football game since to shame.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    4 күн бұрын

    You're right, this is the definitive game for all football fanatics. Sod your Fifa's, if you can master SWOS then you're a legend of the sport. Superg games 😇🕹️👌

  • @timporter4008
    @timporter40083 ай бұрын

    its the playabilty of the game you I used to play it for hours liked management side when I could take my team Gillingham all the way to premier league and win all the cups aswell the messages were great when it said you have a vote of confidence and had only a few games to either improve or have to get to point you could sell players to get out of debt for me know football game comes close to it

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    3 ай бұрын

    The game is flawless apart from the fact that 90% of your players would lose value, which was a shame... other than that, absolutely brilliant game 😇🕹️👌

  • @timporter4008

    @timporter4008

    3 ай бұрын

    @@CheekyCommodoreGamer yea that was annoying you could have defenders keep loads of clean sheets and strikers and wingers play well scoring goals and value go down if I remember rightly the only player that seemed to go up in value was the central striker

  • @Stoobers
    @Stoobers Жыл бұрын

    GOAT :)

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Has to be right up there as the best footie game ever made 😇🕹👌⚽️

  • @frankhenshaw4000
    @frankhenshaw4000 Жыл бұрын

    The best.. 🌍⚽💾🕹️👍

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Love this game, definitely one of... if not, THE best 😇🕹👌

  • @tokyo0lights
    @tokyo0lights9 ай бұрын

    Started playing this again on my psvita taking me back to 1995 on the snes version

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    9 ай бұрын

    Sensible Soccer is still, in my opinion, the most addictive football game out there 😇🕹️👌

  • @charly03090309
    @charly030903099 ай бұрын

    Real men played Kick Off 2

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    9 ай бұрын

    Another great game - I need to look at Kick Off 2 at some point 😇🕹️👌

  • @charly03090309

    @charly03090309

    9 ай бұрын

    @@CheekyCommodoreGamer Player Manager is worth a look too. You could load your team and tactics into KO2. Definitely gave an advantage against my mates.

  • @nasagoal

    @nasagoal

    3 ай бұрын

    Kickoff was for girls

  • @TL....
    @TL.... Жыл бұрын

    you just can't make this stuff up lol " A murderer who battered a man to death previously starred in the iconic "Accrington Stanley, who are they?" advert as a child, the ECHO can reveal. Kevin Spaine was yesterday found guilty of the murder of Learoy Venner, who was repeatedly punched and kicked in a brutal assault at a flat on Belmont Drive in Anfield. The 43-year-old today returned to Liverpool Crown Court to be sentenced, where he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years. John Harrison KC, appearing on behalf of the killer, told the court during his sentencing that his client was formerly a "very promising young footballer" and even starred in the famous television ad for the Milk Marketing Board in 1989. Spaine was one of two boys seen in the clip, clad in Liverpool FC kits. "

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow, there's definitely some science behind drinking semi skimmed then 🤣🕹👌

  • @TL....

    @TL....

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CheekyCommodoreGamer 10:47

  • @123macks
    @123macks8 ай бұрын

    Best game ever can u not buy a box with it on it

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    8 ай бұрын

    It's got to be the best footie game ever for sure - I have it on my evercade (Blaze Evercade - Codemasters Collection 1) and still play it pretty regularly... alas, this is only the Mega-Drive version which has more 'sticky foot' control and is much much more easier to score 😇🕹️👌

  • @123macks

    @123macks

    8 ай бұрын

    @@CheekyCommodoreGamer a loved the game played it for hours can u not get it on a retro box way about 4 thousand games 👍👍

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    8 ай бұрын

    Am sure you can, theres a load of cheap ones on Chinese online stores like 'Ali Express' etc, if you dont mind waiting a few weeks for delivery. They're cheap & cheerful but they do the trick 😇🕹️👌

  • @DoctorMeatDic
    @DoctorMeatDic Жыл бұрын

    Kick Off 2 is the best. Takes a long time to become good, but it has far more longevity than SS. We played KO2 every day for over ten years. It never got boring.

  • @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    @CheekyCommodoreGamer

    Жыл бұрын

    Cool games are definitely subjective but I know that even now there are players who'd even prefer the original Fifa over Sensible Soccer and quite a few who loved Kick Off 2 (which was another awesome game). Was so lucky to have so many awesome games made on the Amiga... such a great era to have lived through 😇🕹👌

  • @charly03090309

    @charly03090309

    9 ай бұрын

    Kick Off 2 was proper "ave it!" football. It simulated the game better by making you work hard just to get the rudementary passing and dribbling skills. Sensi was just too easy to pick up and play like Messi's Barca without much effort. Player Manager was even better though.

  • @nasagoal

    @nasagoal

    3 ай бұрын

    over ten years? i started playing Swos in 1996 and still play and love it today, while other games like Fifa or Kickoff got boring and repetive

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