Goal

I played this game to pieces as a kid. Despite the fact that the players are just ASCII characters running around a 2D pitch, the game easily has you hooked and cheering for your team like crazy. You take on the role of manager of a national football team, and your task is to pick your team, make tactical decisions, and of course do as well as possible in order to encourage the growth of football talent in your country. The game operates on a 4 year cycle, where year 1 is the qualification stage for your continental tournament, year 2 is the actual continental tournament. Year 3 and 4 are about the World Cup instead.

The registered version of the game also came with an editor tool which allowed you to edit teams and player names. As far as I remember, these were fairly accurate for its time, at least for the bigger teams. However, I also remember some names that were obviously picked from other settings - politicians and other famous people would sometimes be footballers in this game.

I used to own the game back in the day. Back when I registered it, I got it on a 5.25" floppy disk. As I loved it so much, I tried to preserve it across computers, and I know I had a regular floppy disk with it as well. Sadly I don't know where my disks are anymore, as I haven't had a floppy drive for a few years either. There might be a few things I miss from my early days as a computer user, and this game is certainly top of the list. It would mean so much to me to be able to play it again - and I mean this, rather than the newer versions Goal 2 and Goal 94, which I never got into in the same way.

If anyone still has it, I would appreciate hearing from you. And of course, if you have the chance to play this game, don't miss it - you could be hooked before you even know it.


Zimena # 2015-12-17 12:06:46

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