Football Glory
Encyclopedia
Football Glory is a 1994 football
computer game developed by Croteam
and published by Black Legend
that became famous due to the many similarities with Sensible Software
's Sensible Soccer
. It was released for both IBM compatibles and Commodore Amiga, and later peaked as high as second in the Amiga sales chart.
In essence a clone of Sensible Soccer, Football Glory was a more laid back, and at points, a much more comical approach: apart from several new features such as overhead and heel kicks, it included several seemingly unrelated animations (including female streaker
s and hooligans with assorted police officers chasing them, toilet paper and firecrackers thrown to the field by the audience after a goal, and cartoon-like talking bubbles after a referee decision, after which the player was allowed to chase the referee), and various other little amusing touches, such as the snow-ridden field having a snowman as a corner flag and icicles hanging down from the crossbar.
In 1998, Croteam released Football Glory as freeware.
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
computer game developed by Croteam
Croteam
Croteam is a video game developer established in Zagreb, Croatia in 1993, initially as a "garage games" company. They only had six employees and four contractors for the development of Serious Sam in 2001.-Company history:...
and published by Black Legend
Black Legend (software publisher)
Black Legend was an Amiga and PC games publisher, based first in Switzerland, then in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, and finally in Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England...
that became famous due to the many similarities with Sensible Software
Sensible Software
Sensible Software was a software house active during the 1980s and 90s, from the United Kingdom.The company was well-known for the very small sprites used for the player characters in many of their games, including Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Sensible Golf.- Early history :Sensible Software...
's Sensible Soccer
Sensible Soccer
Sensible Soccer, often affectionately known as 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 released for both IBM compatibles and Commodore Amiga, and later peaked as high as second in the Amiga sales chart.
In essence a clone of Sensible Soccer, Football Glory was a more laid back, and at points, a much more comical approach: apart from several new features such as overhead and heel kicks, it included several seemingly unrelated animations (including female streaker
Streaker
Streaker may refer to:* Someone who engages in streaking, purposely appearing and running nude in public* Streaker , a sailing dinghy* Streaker , a 1987 computer game published by Bulldog...
s and hooligans with assorted police officers chasing them, toilet paper and firecrackers thrown to the field by the audience after a goal, and cartoon-like talking bubbles after a referee decision, after which the player was allowed to chase the referee), and various other little amusing touches, such as the snow-ridden field having a snowman as a corner flag and icicles hanging down from the crossbar.
In 1998, Croteam released Football Glory as freeware.
External links
- Freeware download of Football Glory at Home of the UnderdogsHome of the UnderdogsHome of the Underdogs was an abandonware archive founded by Thai Sarinee Achavanuntakul , aka: Underdogs or Fringer on her own blog, in September 1998, and grew to be one of the most significant abandonware websites on the Internet, despite losing its domains to cybersquatters and then briefly...
- Football Glory information at the Amiga HOL
- Football Glory indoors information at the Amiga HOL
- Five-A-Side soccer information at the Amiga HOL