Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer

Commodore 64 cover art
Developer(s) SportTime[1]
Publisher(s)
Designer(s) John Fitzpatrick[1]
Platform(s) Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
Release date(s)

Commodore 64:

Genre(s) Traditional sports simulator[1]
Mode(s) Single-player
Multiplayer

Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer is a computer game released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, published by Gremlin Interactive in Europe, and by Mindscape as Superstar Soccer in the USA.[1]

Gameplay

Superstar Soccer is an arcade action soccer simulation game. The player controls one player at a time.[2] In addition to taking the role of the centre forward, the player is also the manager of the team, responsible for hiring players and setting training regimes.

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
Crash52%[3]
Dragon
Sinclair User6/10[4]
Your Sinclair6/10[5]
ACE906[6]
Zzap!6474%

The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #132 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars.[2]

Zzap!64 magazine awarded the game 74%, describing it as "a pleasant and well-produced football game that is very playable, even if it isn't that true-to-life."[7]

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