Kick Off

Information

Genre

Sports - Soccer

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Keyboard

Players

1, 1 vs. 2

Programmer(s)

Meade, Nick

Graphic Artist(s)

[n/a]

Sound

[n/a]

Cover Artist(s)

[unknown]

Year

1989

Publisher

Anco Software

Developer

Cirrus Software

Country

United Kingdom

License

Commercial

Medium

Tape, Disk

Rarity

8 (Tape), 8 (Disk)

Serial

-

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 3.4/10 · Votes: 18 · Downloads: 1,972 · Hits: 7,973

Additional Comments

Screenshots (7)

Cover Art (4)

Instructions (4)

Comments (4)

• IntoTheVerticalBlank — 3 Jul 2020

  Let's be frank, only a couple companies were putting any real effort into making Atari 8bit games at this time and Anco wasn't one of them. I just read that Atari User P6 review today too, and wow, Anco pretty much didn't want nayone to know this existed.

• Auntie Pastie — 25 Feb 2018

  Adam, if it makes you feel any better, the C64 version has horizontal gameplay too and was also apparently panned (Zzap 64 gave it 37% and said "the only similarities between this and Amiga 'Kick Off' are the play options and the name. [..] For me, this simply *isn't* Kick Off"). I notice it has a rarity of "8", which isn't surprising. New Atari User's review noted that Anco had given it no apparent publicity and wondered how they expected people to buy it if they didn't know it existed!

• Adam Cruickshank — 24 Sept 2007

  I was devastated when I got it through the post. Every other format I'd played it on had vertical scrolling and was ultrafast. This was horizontal and slow. Dreadful.

• John E. — 27 Mar 2004

  A truly awful game.