Sensible World Of Soccer on the Amiga provided me with hours of entertainment.
Most of them not actually playing the game, but updating the rosters of the various football clubs, and editing the fictional teams with themes of my own choosing.
A lot of time was also spent brainlessly clicking the fire button through the Career mode, “managing” an amazing team I’d assembled (but were so good no longer needed any kind of managing) on auto-pilot.
A huge chunk of time was also spent waiting for the game to calculate the standings and cup results in other countries around the rest of the World at the end of the season.
Compare that to the time I actually spent controlling little men and kicking a little ball around… Well, I made a graph. Look at it.
Strangely, I never got on with the version on Xbox Live Arcade. Maybe it’s because I have better things to spend my time doing now.
