Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer

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Commodore 64 cover art
Developer SportTime [1]
Publishers
Designer John Fitzpatrick [1]
Platforms Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
ReleaseCommodore 64:
Genre Traditional sports simulator [1]
Modes Single-player, multiplayer

Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer is a computer game released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, published by Gremlin Interactive in Europe, and by Mindscape as Superstar Soccer in the USA. [1]

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Gameplay

Superstar Soccer is an arcade action soccer simulation game. The player controls one player at a time. [2] In addition to taking the role of the centre forward, the player is also the manager of the team, responsible for hiring players and setting training regimes.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. [2]

Zzap!64 magazine awarded the game 74%, describing it as "a pleasant and well-produced football game that is very playable, even if it isn't that true-to-life". [7]

Reviews

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "GameFAQs - Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer". GameFAQs.
  2. 1 2 Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (April 1988). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (132): 80–85.
  3. ↑ "World of Spectrum - Magazines". www.worldofspectrum.org.
  4. ↑ "World of Spectrum - Magazines". www.worldofspectrum.org.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2012-01-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "World of Spectrum - Magazines". www.worldofspectrum.org.
  7. ↑ "Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer". Zzap!64 (34): 28. February 1988.
  8. ↑ "ACE Magazine Issue 05". February 1988.
  9. ↑ http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Tilt/tilt_numero051/TILT%20-%20n051%20-%20fevrier%201988%20-%20page028%20et%20029.jpg [ bare URL image file ]
  10. ↑ http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/garylinekerssuperstarsoccer.htm Archived 2012-01-26 at the Wayback Machine [ bare URL ]
  11. ↑ "Aktueller Software Markt (ASM) Magazine (January 1988)". January 1988.
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