1988 MS-DOS game gets Steam 2021 release

1992 Sensible football is one of the best video games of all time, but Sensible Software developers didn’t create their classic in a vacuum. They had to work to get there, developing the years 1988 Microprose football first.

In almost all cases, the direct precursor of Sensitive, Microprose—Released in the United States as Keith Van Eron’s professional football: Had the same top-down action and arcade sensitivities as Sensitive, only instead of appearing on Amiga and PC and exploding in the early 90s, came out on the Commodore 64 and PC in the late 80s and … was also a hit, but not the cultural force this Sensitive was.

Strangely, despite the return of the Microprose brand from the dead, this is published by Ziggurat, probably because the new Microprose is only interested in military games. It is fetch change on Steam.