Gazza's Superstar Soccer

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Developer(s) Empire Interactive
Publisher(s) Empire Interactive
Platform(s) Amiga 500/600, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum
Release1989
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s)1 or 2 players

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

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The game was included in several sports games compilations, such as Soccer Mania [3] and Grandstand . [4] The game also had a sequel, named Gazza II. [5]

Gameplay

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

A triangle is used to indicate the height and side effect of each shot.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Gazza's Super Soccer Archived 2008-02-17 at the Wayback Machine at ysrnry.co.uk
  2. Gazza's Super Soccer Archived 2007-12-28 at the Wayback Machine and Bodo Illgner's Super Soccer at thelegacy.de
  3. "World of Spectrum - Soccer Mania".
  4. Grandstand at hol.abime.net
  5. Gazza's Super Soccer at worldofspectrum.org