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Sensible Soccer was possibly one of the most addictive and playable football games of the 1990's. It was developed by Sensible Software, who were the same team that created the 'shoot em up' game Cannon Fodder. The Amiga Version of Sensible Soccer. Long before the rise of the Electronic Art's FIFA and the Pro Evolution series of games. Sensible Soccer was the computer game that most followers of football tended to play. The game was massive on the home computer market. It was a huge hit on PC, Amiga and the Atari systems. It was also released on the Nintendo and Sega consoles. The Game Boy version proved to be very popular as the simplicity of the controls worked well on a hand held device.  On the home computers, the game was often played using the joystick and it was a game that was incredibly easy to pick up. The game did not need detailed graphics or motion capturing. It was a bird's eye view kick about with the ability to customize teams to yo...

If there was one computer game that defined my youth.. It was Frontier: Elite II. Frontier:Elite II was a vintage computer game written by David Braben and in my opinion, it was an excellent way to lose yourself for months if not years! Initially published by Gametek in 1993. It is the first sequel to the earlier game Elite. The Elite franchise was a series of games in which you traded and fought through the known universe. The game systems that it was initially available on were for the Commodore Amiga, the Atari ST and the PC home computers. I originally used to play the game on my trusty Amiga and even now, I have fond memories of the game. The game allowed you to choose whether or not to align yourself with the democratic Federation, the uncompromising Empire or to keep yourself independent of both of these galactic superpowers. If you sided with one you found the other power would take a dim view of your presence in their territory and from that poin...