Match Day II
Match Day II is a football sports game part of the Match Day series released for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Commodore 64 platforms. It was created in 1987 by Jon Ritman with graphics by Bernie Drummond and music and sound by Guy Stevens (except for the Commodore version, which was a line-by-line conversion by John Darnell). It is the sequel to 1984's Match Day.
Match Day II
- Date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Ocean Software
- Genre
- association football video game
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Match Day II is a football sports game part of the Match Day series released for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Commodore 64 platforms. It was created in 1987 by Jon Ritman with graphics by Bernie Drummond and music and sound by Guy Stevens (except for the Commodore version, which was a line-by-line conversion by John Darnell). It is the sequel to 1984's Match Day.
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• Title — Matchday II • Developer — Jon Ritman • Publisher — Ocean Software • Released — 1987 • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Gameplay
Gameplay
The controls consist of four directions (allowing eight directions including diagonals) and a shot button. Each team has seven players, including goalkeeper and there are league and cup options available. The game is considered highly addictive due to its difficulty level, the complete control over ball direction, power and elevation (using a Diamond Deflection System), and the importance of tactics and player positioning over the field (barging if necessary), which makes it challenging to break strong defences. It was the first game to use a kickometer. Some versions of the game play the song "When the Saints Go Marching In" while the players are walking to their initial positions on the field at the beginning of each half.
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1987
Match Day II published.
1987
Match Day II is recorded as published in 1987.
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- United Kingdom
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Match Day II is associated with United Kingdom.
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The ZX Spectrum version of the game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Out Run.
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- 1.Comment about authors of the game in Ritman's home page, ritman.co.uk
- 2.Matchday II at Stadium64
- 3.Match Day II review at crashonline.org
- 4.Matchday 2 review at Your Sinclair Rock and Roll Years
- 5.Match Day 2 instructions at zxsoftware.co.uk
- 6.Football games at geocities.com/SiliconValley
- 7.Match Day 2 review at pressplaythenanykey.com (in Spanish)
- 8.https://archive.org/details/ComputerAndVideoGamesIssue076Feb88/page/n20/mode/1up
- 9.https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=1018&page=57
- 10.Archived copy.
- 11.Interview with Ritman at amstradmuseum.com.
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