Gazza's Superstar Soccer

Gazza's Superstar Soccer

Developer(s) Empire Interactive
Publisher(s) Empire Interactive
Platform(s) Amiga 500/600, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum
Release date(s) 1989
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) 1 or 2 players
Distribution Cassette, Disk

Gazza's Superstar Soccer is a football game released for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500/600, Atari ST and Commodore 64 platforms. It was created in 1989 by Empire Interactive, and was named after the popular English footballer Paul Gascoigne.[1] It was also released in the Netherlands and Germany as Bodo Illgner's Super Soccer[2] and in Scandinavia as Anders Limpar's Proffs Fotboll

The game was included in several sports games compilations: Soccer Mania or Grandstand.[3] The game had also a sequel, named Gazza II.[4]

Gameplay

The game has no scroll. Instead, it has three different screens showing one third of the field each. In one you get a side view of the middle of the field. When the ball goes out of the screen, you see a new screen with the goal at its top (the camera is "flying" over the middle of the field)

It also has a triangle to indicate the height and side effect of each shot

Preceded by
Batman: The Movie
UK number-one Spectrum game
March–April 1990
Succeeded by
Rainbow Islands

References

  1. Gazza's Super Soccer at ysrnry.co.uk
  2. Gazza's Super Soccer and Bodo Illgner's Super Soccer at thelegacy.de
  3. Grandstand at hol.abime.net
  4. Gazza's Super Soccer at worldofspectrum.org

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