Gazza's Super Soccer

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Description

This was the first of the two football games licensed around Paul Gascoigne, then the most expensive player in British football history. The game is viewed top down, and can be set to either move left-right or top-bottom.

League and cup tournaments are included, as are single matches and set-piece practice sections (you have full control of these). The gameplay involves a number of advanced moves, and includes a gauge to control the exact dimensions of a kick (height and curl as well as strength), if you can use it quickly enough. Unusually, you have control over the goalkeeper, so can only blame yourself when you concede a goal. The players each have their own skills and strengths, and these develop as the game goes on – if you play well, your players become better, and more capable of facing better opposition.

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Alternate Titles

• "Bodo Illgner's Super Soccer" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Licensed title: Athletes
• Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne licensees

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Critic Reviews

Amiga Joker	Amiga	Jan, 1990	69 out of 100	69
Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Mar, 1990	64 out of 100	64
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Mar, 1990	52 out of 100	52
Secret Service / New S Service	Commodore 64	1995	50 out of 100	50
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Atari ST	Jan, 1990	3.8 out of 12	32
Power Play	Atari ST	Mar, 1990	31 out of 100	31
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Amiga	Jan, 1990	3.6 out of 12	30
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	ZX Spectrum	Apr, 1990	297 out of 1000	30
Power Play	Commodore 64	Apr, 1990	27 out of 100	27
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Feb, 1990	2.2 out of 12	18

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Licensing

With Gascoigne not being an international star of the same statute as Maradona, the game was re-licenced in Germany as Bodo Illgner's Super Soccer and in Sweden as Anders Limpar's proffs fotboll.

Related Web Sites

• Gazza's Superstar Soccer (information about the game on the open encyclopedia website)