England Championship Special

Athletes

England Championship Special's national squad with their corresponding attributes as given in the game:

``` Player Speed Skill Strength Aggression David Seaman 5 2 4 4 Chris Woods 4 1 3 4 Des Walker 4 4 3 4 Mark Wright 3 3 4 3 Stuart Pearce 4 5 4 5 Gary Stevens 3 3 3 4 Paul Parker 3 4 4 3 John Barnes 4 5 3 4 Neil Webb 3 3 4 3 Trevor Steven 3 4 3 4 Steve Hodge 3 2 4 3 Stephen McMahon 3 2 4 4 Paul Gascoigne 5 2 4 5 Chris Waddle 4 5 3 3 Steve Bull 4 4 3 4 Bryan Robson 3 2 4 3 Ian Wright 4 5 2 4 David Platt 5 4 4 3 Peter Beardsley 4 3 3 3 Gary Lineker 5 4 3 4

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The manual omits McMahon, but lists Nigel Martin, Tony Dorigo, Tony Adams and Lee Dixon, none of which appear in the game. In addition, the manual gives completely different (considerably higher) values for the four player attributes.

Version differences

Amiga and ST versions are the game's original incarnations with both the full set of gameplay elements and most detailed graphics. The Amiga version suffers from bugs that cause players to warp around the playfield.

The PC version is a stripped-down conversion of the 16-Bit originals with coarser graphics. Team morale is omitted, side-view penalty shots are replaced by a cruder top-down variation. Strangely enough, PC version matches cannot be played a full 90 minutes, but only 45 minutes max - likely a bug.

The C64 conversion has no digitized pictures except for the player photos, no referee graphics, weather and morale system aren't implemented, the penalty shots correspond to the PC version. It also features a bug meaning that, after entering the team selection and formation screens, it is not possible to get back out of this to play the actual game.