Name the game - part 4

[duke o' york]

That last clue was next to useless. I'd already worked out that the game involved the kicking about of aforementioned animals from Clue 2.

I have a vague memory of something like this, but it's not as clear as memories of older games on older platforms. Wasn't shareware was it?
I might have to give up after the next clue if it doesn't spark any kind of memory.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Furball?

[child of Thor]

Its the fact that it came out on 8bits as well that's foxing me.
Was it some kind of 'snooker/pool' version of football? And was it U.S. or rest of the world Football(like soccer)?

[CapTVK]

There's a lot of kicking in it. A lot of kicking. That's for sure!

[child of Thor]

Its not one of the demented versions of sensible soccer is it? They did one that combined cannon fodder and SWOS, but maybe they did one that had cute furry creatures to kick around(typical sensible humour ).....ummm i guess it could have been called SWOKC(sensible world of kickable creatures)?

more clues vicar

[CapTVK]

No, not sensible soccer you have to remember there are alot more computergames than just soccer. If you take to the realms of fancy...

So there I was, amongst the crowd
Seeing a dwarf and an ogre, taking the field and duke it out...
To my surprise, that wasn't the end of it
Because his next opponent was a squid!...

[Spaced Cowboy]

Soccer was just a red herring.

Question: I know that goggling is out, but what about other Web resources? Like going to Lemon C64 and browsing through the games there, that is, not doing a keyword search, but just leafing through them.

[DrSpike]

Seems dodgy to me.

[CapTVK]

Well, in the first place. We all look at retrosites like Lemon or the giant list of 8-bit programmers to find some nive bit of trivia. Where else would we get all those screenshots and illustrations from? So in that sense we're all dodgy geezers.

These days I try to ' antigoogle' my posts as much as possible. You would already need to have a good idea of what you're looking for to find it.

[DrSpike]

Yeah it's good to look when you're setting the questions........I always do that to make sure I don't get details wrong.

[child of Thor]

True - i never google to find the answer to a game i'm guessing, but i do use it and other resources to find links for the games i've posted to be guessed.................thats not all greek is it?

To guess in the pure sense and spirit of the thread is to just 'know' of the game your getting clues to. Or just guess at random and hope

er i'm guessing 'Barbarian' as you could kick your defeated enemies head of the screen.......

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by child of Thor
True - i never google to find the answer to a game i'm guessing, but i do use it and other resources to find links for the games i've posted to be guessed.................thats not all greek is it?

To guess in the pure sense and spirit of the thread is to just 'know' of the game your getting clues to. Or just guess at random and hope

er i'm guessing 'Barbarian' as you could kick your defeated enemies head of the screen.......

Nope, it ain't Barbarian (we already had that one) but you could probably see a few colleagues in this game.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Sorry guys, but you have to remember that I'm the "Spaced" Cowboy, I can't even remember....what are we talking about again?

[child of Thor]

Well Cap, even though the thought of kicking cute furry creatures around kinda rings a dim bell, i'll have to surrender on this one - post a link when someone finally gets it as i'm interested to find out more

[CapTVK]

Well, another clue then...(if you played this it should ring a bell)


While I didn't win the gold medallion I had nothing to fear.
As the king made the losers his fools for a year!