This 1986's game was a stroke of genius in exploiting the narcisistic fantasies of little kids dreaming to become a professional footballer - that is, almost all of them.
Contrarily to the common football game, it is in fact structured to follow the career of a single player, an attacker of which you can choose the name, in his attempt to become the best player of the league, beginning from the lower divisions. The only few moments of football you actually play are a couple of chances to score a goal, that you can obtain buying the mysterious "goal cards".
I didn't know that footbal worked like this.
Anyway, the game can be dangerously addictive, and makes you waste hours with a gameplay that is rather silly:
buying "goal cards" to have a chance to shoot, as Marco Van Basten undoubtedly used to do, facing smart goalkeepers that always jump aside while you're shooting centrally, checking the position of your team - which often INSISTS to be first in spite of a dozen lost matches -, trying spasmodically to understand what's happening while an "incident" is occurring, and giggling stupidly when, most coherently, the alarming beep resolves in a "sorry, no incident this time" message.
Ultimately, the only real fun of the game are its clumsy features I listed above - aside that, it remains a mesmerizing, numbing trap.
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