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Congratulations, you have just been hired as the new manager of a
professional soccer team. Find out if you can handle this exciting job
with THE SOCCER GAME, a sports managerial simulation game.
The object of this outstanding game is to become a successful manager
of a soccer team. You start out managing a fourth division team and try
to work your way up. You select the team players, team matches, and
even the team scouts. You demonstrate your skills by trading and buying
players, by selecting the best teams to play, by making the best team
plays and the best deals.
THE SOCCER GAME uses a database of 1270 players, 100 teams, 100 scouts,
100 treasurers, 100 physiotherapists, 100 managers, and 100 assistant
managers.
FILE1695.TXT
Disk No: 1695
Disk Title: The Soccer Game
PC-SIG Version: S2.0
Program Title: THE SOCCER GAME
Author Version: 2.0
Author Registration: $20.00
Special Requirements: CGA.
Congratulations, you have just been hired as the new manager of a
professional soccer team. Find out if you can handle this exciting job
with THE SOCCER GAME, a sports managerial simulation game.
The object of this outstanding game is to become a successful manager of
a soccer team. You start out managing a fourth division team and try to
work your way up. You select the team players, team matches, and even
the team scouts. You demonstrate your skills by trading and buying
players, by selecting the best teams to play, by making the best team
plays and the best deals.
THE SOCCER GAME uses a database of 1270 players, 100 teams, 100 scouts,
100 treasurers, 100 physiotherapists, 100 managers, and 100 assistant
managers.
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
GO.TXT
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║ To start program, type: SOCCER (press enter) ║
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║ To print documentation, type: COPY SOCCER.TXT PRN ║
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(c) Copyright 1990, PC-SIG Inc.
SOCCER.TXT
The Soccer Game (shareware version) Copyright (c) New Era Software 1989
Features include :=
FINANCIAL : sponsorship
tv+radio broadcasts
record sales
ground maintenance
gate receipts
salaries
cash flow
shares
bank loans
betting
contracts
players on free loan
buy and sell players
purchase and sacking of staff
SQUAD : maximum of 20 players
emotional stability
age
experience
skill
consistency
field positions
injuries
retirements
testimonials
goals scored - season+total
matches played - season+total
contract termination+renewal
transfer-listed players
offers from other clubs
player of the month
young player of the month
man of the match
MISCELLANEOUS: instructions !
on screen help
1270 players
100 teams
4 divisions (20 teams in each)
20 European teams
100 physios
100 treasurers
100 scouts
100 assistants
edit team and player names
friendly matches
manager of the month
League Cup
F A Cup
Cup Winners Cup
UEFA Cup
European Cup
levels of difficulty
fast or slow results service
results from all matches
league tables for all 4 divisions
scorers
high goal scorers list
fixturelist
next match information
view any other team's squad at any time
information on signings between teams
transfer market
print outs
music
FULL VERSION (available on request) includes
LOAD AND SAVE GAME: continue game from where you left off
UNLIMITED SEASONS : play forever if you can!!!
INDEPENDENT ALTER UTILITY TO CHANGE TEAM AND PLAYER NAMES PERMANENTLY:This
is of use if you require the database to be changed. It allows you to directly
alter team names or your default player names. Saved games will not be affected
But all new games will immediately access the ALTERed data. Useful, for
instance, if you wish to create a Scottish rather than English default team
setting. Some team names are verified, due to the fact that they are used as
European competition teams.
T H E S O C C E R G A M E
The object of this outstanding game is to become a successful manager of a
football team. At the outset you are contracted for a number of years to a
fourth division team. From this lowly base you try to build up a reputation
which ensures other teams have an avid interest in desiring your managerial
qualities to be present at their club. Consequently, when your contract expires
you may, if you're extremely talented, get offered a contract from a first
division team. If, however, you are incompetent as a manager (whether by
spending too much of the club's money, selling too many of their shares,
losing too many matches, etc), your contract will not be renewed and no other
reasonably-minded team will offer you another contract. The game will be over.
Whilst under contract it is still possible for you to be sacked - for gross
misdemeanours - but not possible for you to leave your current club for
another.
Success is measured in a number of ways. Largely it is a personal matter. Some
people may play the game to win a European cup, others only for the FA cup;
some will play the game to amass large sums of money, others to be top of the
first division. Others still will be playing to remain as an active manager
for as many seasons as possible.
The menus use conventional selection methods : the arrow keys on the keypad
move the bar in the corresponding direction; Home moves to the first option;
End moves to the last; Pg Up moves to the top of the column; Pg Dn moves to
bottom of the column. All menus can be MOVED to display any information hidden
beneath them. Ctrl pressed with Left Arrow, Right Arrow, Pg Up and Pg Dn will
enable movement of any menu to any part of the screen.ESC will exit any menu.
The "Soccer Game" uses a database of 1270 players, 100 teams, 100 treasurers,
100 scouts, 100 physiotherapists, 100 managers, 100 assistant managers.
The MAIN MENU Options
The F2 Function key :
This toggles the active strip menu. If staff is showing then pressing F2
will change the current options to team (and vice versa).
The TEAM options:
1) The PLAY option :
From here you can play your next match, arrange and play a friendly match
or quit (or quit and save) the game.
The "friendly match" option lists teams available for midweek friendly
matches. If you wish to play one of them you select the team otherwise press
ESC to return to the strip menu.
The "quit option" brings the game to a halt. In the full version of "The
SOCCER GAME" (a mere £10) a save game option is offered.
2) The HELP option:
Offers you two choices. General and Display.
Selection of "General" will bring up what you are presently reading. "Display"
will be specific to whatever activity you are engaged in.
3) The LEAGUE option:
This lists all four league tables (you move through them with the right and
left arrow keys - no need to press ENTER) and offers the option to print them
out.
4) The TEAM option:
Offers manifold options :
to alter a player's name
rearrange the team
check on your transfer-listed players
change the current display
print out the current display
The "alter name" option lets you change the name of any of your players.
"Rearrange" team option enables you to switch players from one location to
another. This is necessary for moving players from the RESERVES section into
the first eleven.
"Transfer listings" enables you either to put a player on the transfer
market or, if already on the transfer market, to look at the prices different
teams have offered for him and decide whether to sell him or not.
"Display" option will permit three different displays of information about
your players. Their SKILLS (how competent they are - mentally as well as
physically); their CONTRACTS (the amount of time left before expiration of
their contracts); their GOALS SCORED, etc (the number of goals scored since you
became manager - this season and in total - and number of matches played - also
this season and in total).
"Print out": prints out the current information displayed.
The STAFF options:
1) The ASSISTANT option:
Enables communication with your assistant manager. He can provide the following
facilities:
to display information about your next opponents
display information about any other team
to provide a fixture list for the season
to air his views
The "next opponents" option displays information about your opponents. It
states the league in which they play, their position, the odds against you winning
and lists, with relevant SKILLS their first team and one reserve.
"Check other teams" enables you to choose any of 80 teams to view. Their
team and staff are displayed with relevant SKILLS.
"Fixturelist" displays a list of all the league matches you are playing in
that particular season, filling in the results as each match is played.
"Views" gives an indication of how balanced your team is. The assistant may
inform you, for instance, that a defender ought to be given priority in your
transfer market dealings.
2) The PHYSIO option:
The physio informs you of probable lengths of injuries to players. He is also
capable of telling you any number of items of useless information.
3) The SCOUT option:
Your scout can be your most useful asset if you know how to use him (if you
think I'm going to tell you you're wrong).
"High scorers" lists the top goalscorers from the entire football league -
included are goals scored in any competitive match.
"Report" tells you how successful the scout has been in attempting to find
a player matching your requirements as stated in the following option.
"Get a player" enables you to tell the scout to look for a player of your
chosen field position and your chosen skill level. If he finds one you will
possibly be offered a cheap deal for the player concerned.
"Transfer market" enables you to attempt to buy any player currently on
the transfer market. The transfer market is a volatile entity, so if you see
some one you want to buy, don't wait until next week! The scout doesn't consult
the transfer market: he leaves that to you, whilst he deals directly with the
clubs and the players.
4) The FINANCE option:
Your treasurer can provide the following:
Shares - buying and selling
Weekly financial statement
Loans
Gambling facility
"Shares" gives you the current market price of your shares in the club. You
are free to buy and sell them as you wish, but remember they are the club's and
not personally yours. Selling too many will cause, inevitably, your sacking.
"Weekly balance" is a cashflow statement showing your income and expenditure
for the last week.
"Loans" offers you the opportunity to borrow money from the bank at an ex-
tortionate interest rate.
"Gamble" lets you stake the club's money on your forthcoming match.
Some Words Of Advice:
Try to stick to a 4-3-3 formation if you can. Or 4-4-2 if you must.
Avoid obvious idiocies such as playing without a goalkeeper.
Discover quickly how your Scout operates. He is probably your single most
useful asset.
If players are injured rest them. Use your Physio to find out the probable
length of their injury.
Some players simply get too old to play, or lose their skills for one reason
or another. There is little you can do. Appease them if they want something.
If they want nothing, sell them.
Cup matches are unpredictable. They are usually worth a bet.
Do not sell too many shares.
Do not allow yourself an overdraft of more than £50000
The Soccer Game (shareware version) Copyright (c) New Era Software 1989
WIZARD.TXT
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│ WIZARD GAMES Shareware Releases - Summer 1990 │
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WIZARD is a programming collective based in Scotland, with a range of games all
available only for the IBM PC (and compatibles) via mail order. WIZARD believes
that current PC games are overpriced and overpackaged (not to mention lacking in
imagination). We are creating a series of unique and innovative games, designed
to take full advantage of the size and power of IBM PCs and compatibles, and we
are marketing these primarily via the 'try before you buy' shareware method.
If you like any of our shareware releases, then please support us by registering
for the game concerned. Registration costs £12 (US$20) per game, and entitles
you to the latest full enhanced registered version of the game concerned, with
LOAD and SAVE game facilities and other additional features. Registration also
puts you on our mailing list for information on Wizard releases - and there are
several of these a year!
System requirements for WIZARD releases are IBM PC/close compatible, with 512k
RAM and CGA/CGA compatible graphics card. We have many reports of our games
being run successfully on a wierd and wonderful variety of machines, eg Apple
Macs, Hercules graphics machines, etc using appropriate DOS/CGA emulation
hardware/software.
What they say about Wizard Games:
'thanks for the work you are doing in the underdeveloped - yet overpriced -
PC games world' - P Walker,Bradford
'these are just the type of games I have been waiting for. Keep up the good
work' - C Meeks,London
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│ THE SOCCER GAME (c) 1989 New Era │
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Congratulations,you have just been hired as the new manager of a professional
soccer team. Find out if you can handle this exciting job with THE SOCCER GAME,
a sports managerial simulation game.
THE SOCCER GAME is larger in scope and much more comprehensive than any
currently available soccer management game: forget the rest, try out the best!
Programmed by a certifiable soccer maniac, who was simply fed up with the lack
of detail and scope in available soccer management games, THE SOCCER GAME uses
the memory and processing capacity of the PC to create a game far larger in
scope and far more entertaining and demanding than any of the rest.
The object of this outstanding game is to become a succesful manager of a soccer
team. You start out managing a fourth division team, and try to work your way up
to the top of the first division, and on to international cup success. You
select the team players, and staff. You demonstrate your skills by trading and
buying players, by selecting the best teams to play, and by making the best
deals.
Features include:
YOUR TEAM: up to 20 players, each with emotional stability, age, experience,
skill, fitness, and consistency. Contract termination, and renewal. Players on
free loan. Field positions, injuries, retirements, testimonials. Buy/sell
players, directly or via transfer market. Hire/fire staff. Reports and advice
from staff. Fixture list. Next match information. Offers to manage another team
during the course of the game.
OTHER TEAMS: 1270 players. 4 divisions (20 teams in each). 20 international
teams. Physio, treasurer, scout, & assistant for each team. Edit team and player
names. View any team's squad at any time. Information on signings between teams.
Full information on individual players.
FIXTURES: League tables for all 4 divisions. League Cup. FA cup. Cup Winners
Cup. UEFA cup. European Cup. Friendly matches. Optional match highlights.
Results from all matches. Man of the match. Scorers. High goal scorers list.
Player of the month. Young player of the month. Manager of the month.
FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Buy and sell team shares. make and sell records(!). Bank
loans.Weekly cash flow with gate receipts, sponsorship, TV and radio fees,
salaries, ground maintenance, tranfer fees, betting.
PRESENTATION: Full windowing and pull-up menus. Colour. Music. Instructions.
On-screen help. Levels of difficulty. Print outs.
What they say about THE SOCCER GAME:
'congratulations on a full and comprehensible game' - J Whiting,Colchester
'enjoyed it immensely.. addicted' - N Loader,The Netherlands
'thank you,at Wizard games, for the many challenging hours' A,P&R Powell,Pudsey
'excellent game' - D J Hayes, E Grinstead
'extremely easy to use - the program matches and even exceeds the majority of
commercially available software, with regard to text displays,help screens, and
pull down menu facilities. Excellent value for money!' - C Longdon,Chippenham
'extremely well written game' - P G Jones,Leeds
'thank you for the SOCCER GAME - I think it's brilliant' - V Holmen,Manchester
'excellent - completely hooked on it' - J Holden,Cambridgeshire
'it IS compulsive - thanks very much for a great game' - D Johnson,Wiltshire
'I admit I am addicted to your imaginatively titled "Soccer Game" - Keep up the
good work' - D Demetriou, Southgate
'I have in the past played all the football strategy games available and I
consider "Soccer" the best and most reaslistic available.' - Chris Broadbent,
Swindon
-'brilliant' - A Powis,Hereford
-'brilliant and very addictive' - D Farmer,Staffs
(these are just a small selection of the rave quotes this game produces!)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ GRAND PRIX (c) 1989 Hole In The Wall │
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Manage your own Formula 1 racing team! You are in charge of finances, hiring and
firing of drivers, design staff, and mechanics. You must select and purchase
cars, engines, and other items necessary for a succesful season. You start out
with limited money with which to build up your teams, and must obtain
sponsorship, and negotiate loans.
Once you have a completed team, it's time to start racing! There are 16 races in
each Grand Prix international season, and you must try to qualify for each. With
a skillful driver you may win a race. With a good chief mechanic you could win
more. If you have an experienced chief designer your car may last the whole
season. And if you manage to put all the parts together, the constructors and
drivers championships await you!
Grand Prix is, to the best of our knowledge, the only game of formula 1 team
managment available. Its features include:
- run the season with one, or two (if finances allow) drivers.
- control finances, obtain sponsorship and loans (beware the loan shark!)
- control spending on car/engine development, and salaries
- select drivers from transfer market
- experience history, age, skill, temperament, for each driver
- realism: real-life circuits,teams and drivers.
- circuit statistics, lap records, team records
- qualifying and race lap times, best and average
- accidents, breakdowns, injuries
- graphs/charts of team/driver/competitors performance for the season, and for
the game to date.
- customise team names
- slick presentation, colour, sound, easy and fast to operate
- on-line help and instructions
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ INSANITY (c) 1989 Wizard Games │
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A huge maze-base adventure game, where INSANITY rules! Find clues, solve puzzles
and try to stay alive in a place where the unexpected is common, and pandemonium
is found at every turn!
As you tru to find your way out of the labyrinth, you'll encounter many strange
things, You'll meet a wizard, pass through stars, collect ammunition to defend
yourself against little red fiends, explore a castle and church along the way,
play games like seven card challenge and a fast paced soccer match. Most things
won't make sense, but if you can find a method to the madness, you could find
the key to end your search for a way out of INSANITY.
INSANITY is a highly challenging and entertaining game suitable for all the
family. It comes with a built in demo to give you an idea what the game is
about.
Insanity realy has te be seen, rather than read about!
'INSANITY: It's Brilliant' - J Amandini
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ POPSTAR (c) 1989 Wizard Games │
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You are an unknow hopeful, trying to gain popularity and chart success in the
crazy world of sex,drugs, and rock and roll! Your health, alertness, creativity,
happiness, and drug intake, are constantly monitored and must be carefully
controlled.
The aim of POPSTAR is to become a star, then a megastar: by playing gigs around
the world to create some popularity, by promotional activities, and by recording
and releasing records and making videos. You must constantly watch your health
and emotional state, as the crazy world of sex drugs and rock and roll is very
arduous. You will be tempted continually into partying and drug taking, but
beware! You will need holidays and perhaps even health sanitoriums,
rehabilitation clinics or even hospital to recover from your excesses!
ACTIVITIES: touring - pubs, clubs, halls, stadiums. Support tours. Recording -
various studios. Make videos - various producers. Negotiate record contracts,
and record company loans - various labels. TV and radio appearances. Promotional
autograph and interview tours. Parties. Holidays - various locations. Health
sanitorium. Drug taking. Drug addiction and rehabilitation. Drug busts.
Hospital. Consult your analyst. Visit your doctor. Bankrupcy. Death.
INFORMATION: local,UK,European, and American top 100 charts, updated every week.
Various regional and international top 100 popularity polls. Detailed history
of your own releases and tours. Information on new releases. Record and video
reviews. Gig reviews. Advice from manager, band and friends.
PRESENTATION: full windowing and bar menus. Special effects. Colour. Sound.
Instant context-sensitive help and information always available via function
keys. Bar graph displays. Friendly interactive style.
What they say about POPSTAR:
'played for hours at it' - A Turner,Bolton
'wonderful! just my sort of game. Keep up the good work etc' - Alan Rose,Ilford
'what a brilliant game' - R Thomas,Swansea
'most impressed' - B Clay,Suffolk
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ OLIGOPOLY (c) 1990 Wizard Games │
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OLIGOPOLY is light-hearted but detailed game of business management- you must
build up your business in the face of cut-throat competition: hire/fire staff,
build factories, set prices and marketing and research budgets, deal with
strikes, and generally play at being a capitalist!
You have just inherited a business, called "USELESS LIMITED" from a sadistic
uncle of yours. USELESS ltd makes silly little devices called "Incomprehensible
Gadgets" which the general public seem to think are essential aids to modern
living (yes folks "no home should be without one").
"Oligopoly" is the state where a few companies between them dominate a market.
In the market for "Incomprehensible Gadgets" there are six companies including
you, and there is some limited foreign competition which will only get a
foothold in the market if the six companies are fairly incompetent.
CUTTHROAT ltd will concentrate on price competition, aiming for a low profit
margin on a high volume of sales.
TOPNOTCH ltd goes for good quality design and expects customers to pay premium
prices for it.
IMAGE ltd loves to promote itself, so concentrates on marketing, again
expecting premium prices for such a fashionable name...
STEADFAST ltd as rather boring and conservative and tries to survive by taking
as few risks as possible (you could say it depends on the boring conservative
core of the general public for its'' sales!)
SHADOW ltd copies you (except when you do really stupid things!), as they don''t'
have minds of their own (shame....).
So the aim of the game is to destroy the competition and get yourself a
complete monopoly of the market for "Incomprehensible Gadgets"
You have control over all aspects of USELESS ltd''s activities - production
of the gadgets, design and development of revised models, and selling and
marketing of the finished gadgets. You have a workforce to control and
factories and equipment to organise, buy and sell.
To help you run this business, you have a good computer system (programmed by
WIZARD, so it must be quite wonderful) giving you a variety of graphical and
financial information. It is up to you to figure out how to make sense of it
all!
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│ WIZARD GAMES 4 Hoselaw,Kelso,Scotland,TD5 8BP │
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Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #1695
Volume in drive A has no label
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SOCCER EXE 185232 5-30-90 5:55p
SOCCER TXT 10829 5-01-89 10:40p
SOCCER WIZ 20001 6-02-90 9:13p
STAFF DAT 8000 7-05-88 7:08p
TEAM DAT 17780 7-05-88 7:18p
WIZARD TXT 13879 6-04-90 5:06p
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