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"Sensible Soccer"

Please could someone recommend where I could 'obtain' this game on the 'internet' for 'nothing'? Cheers.

Very_Metal wrote:
> or†ega!!!!! wrote:
> balls to playing it on a pc.
>
> you gotta get it on the amiga and wait countless minutes while
> changing disks to enjoy it properly!
>
> entirely true.
> the disk changing anticipation build the tension up nicely.. which is
> why "Beneath a Steel Sky" on it's 15 floppy disks was such a
> joy to behold ;)

Or, invent the CD drive, load the game, then go wait in the drizzle for 20 minutes to emulate those b'stard loading screens.

A decade or so of progression to get rid of those damn things, then someone complains!

Though the C64 with its endless hours of enjoyment of watching the timer go around as the game loaded was even more fun

Very_Metal wrote:

> the disk changing anticipation build the tension up nicely.. which is
> why "Beneath a Steel Sky" on it's 15 floppy disks was such a
> joy to behold ;)

15! Woah. I think the most I got with one game was about 6.

Very_Metal wrote:
> entirely true.
> the disk changing anticipation build the tension up nicely.. which is
> why "Beneath a Steel Sky" on it's 15 floppy disks was such a
> joy to behold ;)

Slight exageration. If I remember BASS was about 8 disks. Monkey Island 2 was 12, which is when I started thinking of hard drives.....

Anyone remember the ZX spectrum? That was worse.

You put in a cassette tape and waited around 5 - 15 minutes for the game to load.

Oh yes I had one of those. I had a really basic snooker game but played it for literally hours upon end. Crashed more times than I can remember!

gamesfreak wrote:
> Anyone remember the ZX spectrum? That was worse.
>
> You put in a cassette tape and waited around 5 - 15 minutes for the
> game to load.

Longest I know of was Manic Miner on the c64. 25 minutes loading. This was pre fastload technology however. ;D

Had a C64 as well and some games were a good 20 minutes to load - I used to put a tape in before my tea and after I'd had it it was loaded!

Me and a mate once made a multimedia package for a national school competition (about 10 years ago). We were so proud when we sent off the parcel with 22 floppy disks and detailed instructions on how to install the software we'd built. I don't think they even bothered opening it - better equipped schools had CD writers by this time.

EDIT: in fact, we'd got most of the information and images off Microsoft Encarta, which came on a CD! Bwahaaha, ahh memoirs...

Microsoft Encarta now there's a blast from the past!