People fiddling with computers in the mid-1990s – well perhaps only men in their 20s/30s and then probably only those in northern Europe, anyway – may have been familar with the strangely-named PC game Sensible Soccer, a veritable classic of the genre.
While the various ‘official’ FIFA games saw the player sprout realistic heads and limbs, Sensible stuck with stick men, but highly controllable stick men. So controllable in fact that while watching lowly Fulham in the early 1990s (admittedly an activity given to being easily distracted) I found myself comparing one wayward pass after another with Sensi, as us aficionado’s called it. 😉
Now I see this in the Guardian and my interest in PC games is suddenly revived, as it says, “….Sensible Soccer is the greatest comeback of 2006.” Can’t wait to see just how great.