Sensible World of Soccer 2020

Overview

Sensible World of Soccer was designed and developed by Sensible Software as the 1994 sequel to their 1992 game Sensible Soccer which combined a 2D football game with a comprehensive manager mode. The game includes contemporary season data of professional football from around the world, with a total number of 1,500 teams and 27,000 players. Although the gameplay is simple (eight directions and one fire button) a large variety of context sensitive actions can be performed without any predefined keys. In 1996 the game was ranked best of all time by Amiga Power. In 2004, the Amiga version of Sensible World of Soccer was inducted into GameSpot's list of the greatest games of all time. In 2007, Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science and Technology Collections in the Stanford University together with game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky, researcher Matteo Bittanti and journalist Christopher Grant compiled a definitive list of "the ten most important video games of all time". This list included Sensible World of Soccer. Sensible World of Soccer's inclusion in this list is notable on three accounts: it is the only game in the list developed in Europe, it is the only sports game in the list, and it is the most recent game in the list. The release of 1996 was the final version of the SWOS sequel, for Amiga (two floppy disks) and PC (CD-ROM). Since 2004 SensibleSoccer.de offers SWOS online play, and national and international tournaments and leagues are being organized and played on a monthly basis. The community uses Discord to organize online play. SensibleSoccer.de is host of the "Sensible Days", an annual meeting of SWOS fans with international championships on PC and Amiga in the manner of a LAN party. Since 2008, the "Sensible Days" are acknowledged by Codemasters as the official SWOS World Cups. Since then the place of event changed yearly throughout Europe. In 2020, the Sensible Days took place in Złoty Potok on 18–19 July. Game developer Jon Hare visited the tournament in Berlin, 2013.

Alternate Names

• SWOS2020

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