Review El_Diegote 5/5 · Nov 20, 2023
These games were so, so good
A reddit "suggested" oddly suggested me a subreddit called newstarsoccer. "Tf is that?", our hero asked himself, "why does it ring a bell?". Then, the text based, simple sprite, career simulation of a football player with in-game choices came to mind. Also remembered hacking it and creating the oddest careers known to man (Editor's note: keys for the full …
A reddit "suggested" oddly suggested me a subreddit called newstarsoccer. "Tf is that?", our hero asked himself, "why does it ring a bell?". Then, the text based, simple sprite, career simulation of a football player with in-game choices came to mind. Also remembered hacking it and creating the oddest careers known to man (Editor's note: keys for the full game were associated with a specific player in mind, so to play it full, I had to wait until someone, often in the middle east, bought a key and decided to post it online for everyone else to use. All my players had middle eastern names, but as the names weren't linked with nationalities, I could create backstories of Muslim immigration in Chile even though I never saw an immigrant when growing up in my rural, south Américan town).
Apparently, the game wasn't just a one thing, java made, minesweeper UI someone made for fun but it actually became a series with tons of new games I didn't know existed and not only that, but spinoffs like football manager career, "hockey career" (tf is hockey, right?), and even a baseball and nfl career, all in google playstore now and ready to be played on any phone. Why would the creator call football soccer and nfl football is beyond me, but the games were that good that I decided to give them a chance and I'm not disappointed.