May 18, 2024
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To celebrate the World Cup (and also because I'm so pumped about it), here's a football game set in the CT:OS universe... yes, the one I've been itching to write for a long time.
(Image: I commissioned Isabela Zaneti to create the beautiful cover art, she also made the cover art for Viataca :D)
Synopsis
At twenty five, you'd been touted as England's next legendary footballer. Then, on the cusp of an actual breakthrough—disaster strikes. An injury, a broken engagement, and a doping ban that sends you into a catastrophic tailspin.
Now, you’re thirty, with a past weighed down by unfulfilled dreams and haunted by what-ifs. Everyone has already written you off as a washed-up has-been who’d never lived up to their potential.
When the English manager decides to believe in improbable lost causes and names you in his World Cup squad, you get one last chance at rewriting your story.
Release
It'll be out for patreon/ko-fi supporters ($6 and above) on Fri, Jun 19. Stay tuned for the link :)
Features
It's the last match of the season, and your team is up against a historic rival. You're playing against Rayyan and Tobin. Here are just some of the things you can do:
Pull off a sliding tackle on Rayyan
Score an amazing curling corner kick
Score a hat-trick
Get a yellow card / get subbed out
Win... and be player of the match
Get a call-up from the English World Cup manager...
Have birthday dinner with Sam, also your high school best friend in this alternate timeline
Goal Storm (PS1)
Wacky goal in this early US PS1 longbox game that also happens to be the first game in Konami's Winning Eleven / PES / eFootball series. ^) ^
Mini Rusty Soccer Game Restoration
Arcade Legends: Sensible Soccer Plus is a plug-and-play Mega Drive-on-a-chip unit released by Radica in 2005 under license from Sega Toys. It is really less a handheld than a compact self-contained system built around three Sensible Software Mega Drive titles: Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, and Mega lo Mania.
That line-up alone gives it obvious appeal. Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder were hardly throwaway inclusions, and for anyone with affection for that corner of early-1990s British game design, the idea of having them bundled together in one small Radica unit was an attractive one. It also stood out within the broader Arcade Legends / Legends range, because instead of relying on Sega’s own arcade brands, it focused on a third-party studio with a very distinctive identity.
Its original popularity is harder to judge now. The unit was definitely released in the United Kingdom in 2005 and is well documented as part of the Radica line, but it does not seem to have become one of the more talked-about entries in the range. Even so, the concept itself was strong enough to make it memorable.
What makes it interesting today is the package more than its market impact. As a licensed Radica device built around Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, and Mega lo Mania, it captures a very specific kind of mid-2000s retro repackaging: old Mega Drive software, a self-contained plug-and-play format, and a selection clearly aimed at players who already had some nostalgia for those names. On that level, it remains an appealing little curiosity.
VAI BRASIL! Vai ganhar a Copa Do Mundo! (GO BRAZIL! go win the World Cup!)
FOI 3 A 0 VAI BRASIL!!!
(Context/translation for the English folks: Brazil just won a soccer game in the world cup, and it was 3 nothing HEHEHHEHEHEHE I hope they win)