# Simple football (soccer) game akin to Sensible Soccer? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719 "2015-07-20T19:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/1 "2015-07-20T19:51:55Z")
Hi folks, I’m hankering to play a really simple, old-school football (oh, all right, soccer…) game. Back in the 90s, there was a game called Sensible Soccer. One button. Directional controls. That was it. I’m not after photo-realism, complicated gesture-based controls, button-combos or licensed teams. I just want some simple, old-fashioned, unrealistic arcade football. 😃 Potential systems I could play this on are an iPad 3, an Android phone or a Mac running Yosemite (and I can play web-based games of course). If it’s not too demanding a game - and given the requirements, it shouldn’t be - I can probably run it in a Windows VM I have kicking about on the Mac, as well. All suggestions appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/2 "2015-07-20T19:57:21Z")
Belay that order! Turns out that Sensible World of Soccer is available for Mac on [GOG.com](http://GOG.com). Awesome. See you all in a week or so… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/3 "2015-07-21T06:25:26Z")
…Sensible Soccer… Ah, the classics! One of my favourite Sensible titles was Cannon Fodder. [War, never been so much fun.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0) RIP Jools. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/4 "2015-07-21T09:26:33Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …Sensible Soccer… > > Ah, the classics! One of my favourite Sensible titles was Cannon Fodder. [War, never been so much fun.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0) RIP Jools. ☹ I never got that far on Cannon Fodder. I found it really tricky. Fun, though. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/5 "2015-07-21T10:08:33Z")
I remember this Sensi Soccer/Cannon Fodder mashup fondly: > [@](#): > > On the Amiga Power Coverdisk 21 one of the demos was Sensible Soccer: England vs Germany, also known as Sensible Soccer Meets Bulldog Blighty.[15] This featured a mode of play that involved replacing players with soldiers from Cannon Fodder, and the ball with a hand grenade. The grenade would randomly begin to flash eventually exploding, killing any nearby players. from [Sensible Soccer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensible_Soccer) ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/6 "2015-07-21T10:50:58Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > I remember this Sensi Soccer/Cannon Fodder mashup fondly: > > from [Sensible Soccer - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensible_Soccer) …yeah, I got that somewhere around the house! And Amiga Power was simply the best video games magazine around! Corr blimey, this thread is bringing back the memories! ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/7 "2015-07-21T21:10:03Z")
So I got Sensible World Of Soccer installed. Instant nostalgia. I remember spending hours with my brother editing the team data so we could have Rebels v Imperials. Fired it up and the theme tune kicked in - Goal Scoring Superstar Hero. Until that moment, I’d have been prepared to swear that I’d forgotten it, but it came flooding back… a cheesy slice of 90s dance music, with an awesome FMV intro which was basically the developers fooling about on the football pitch - when devs were celebrities amongst PC gamers. Then I got frustrated at the simplistic controls, but I assume I’ll get better. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/8 "2015-07-21T21:18:46Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > a cheesy slice of 90s dance music Ah now, that reminds me about something else I had on the Amiga. Do you remember the [Jesus on E’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D2JEkcdLNw) demo? 🆒 God knows how they got over half an hour of tunes and visuals onto two floppies. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/9 "2015-07-22T07:07:47Z")
The early CM/FM are available for free download. ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/10 "2015-07-22T17:36:32Z")
I have SWOS still, though I mainly play the management mode as it is something you can play casually unlike the insanely complicated I’m-not-sure anything-I-do-makes-a-positive-difference-to-my-team’s-performance Football Manager. In SWOS, a few shrewd buys and optimizing your formation and you can win the European Cup back-to-back with a San Marino club team. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-football-soccer-game-akin-to-sensible-soccer/725719/11 "2015-07-23T04:26:58Z")
> [@Asympotically\_fat](#): > > I have SWOS still, though I mainly play the management mode as it is something you can play casually unlike the insanely complicated I’m-not-sure anything-I-do-makes-a-positive-difference-to-my-team’s-performance Football Manager. > > In SWOS, a few shrewd buys and optimizing your formation and you can win the European Cup back-to-back with a San Marino club team. In the first few Championship/Football Managers you can power through a season in a couple of hours. In the last few FM it takes a few hours just to get through preseason. But it adds to the reality to have an entire world of football simming in the background.