Category:Kick Off Series

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The Kick Off Series is a series of football computer games released from 1989 to 1991 by ANCO for various platforms. The games in the Kick Off Series are considered pioneer, since contrary to previous football computer games, the ball does not stick to the player's feet but is realistically kicked ahead of the player. This adds an important degree of difficulty and skill requirement on the part of the human player. This, along with many other original features (such as aftertouch, action replays, individual players characteristics, tactics, different pitch types, etc) made the games the in Kick Off Series some of the most popular football computer games ever. Kick Off 2 is still among fans considered the best football computer game ever.

Kick Off was first developed on the Atari ST platform and then ported to the Amiga platform. Even though versions for other computer platforms followed, the Atari ST and especially the Amiga versions were by far the best. This Wiki deals mainly with the Amiga and Atari ST versions of the games.

The Kick Off Series was developed by Dino Dini (programming, design) and Steve Screech (graphics, design, testing).

Games in the series

• Kick Off (1989)
• Kick Off Extra Time (1989)
• Franco Baresi World Cup Kick Off (1990)
• Player Manager (1990)
• Kick Off 2 World Cup 90 (1990)
• Kick Off 2 (1990)
• Kick Off 2 1MB (1990)
• Kick Off 2: Giants of Europe (Data Disk) (1990)
• Kick Off 2: The Final Whistle (Expansion Disk) (1991)
• Kick Off 2: Return To Europe (Expansion Disk) (1991)
• Kick Off 2: Winning Tactics (Data Disk) (1991)
• Kick Off 2: Super League (Expansion Disk) (1991)

Links

• Competitions
• KOPIA - Kick Off Preservation International Association
• KORPS - Kick Off Research Project Society
• Kick Off Remakes

External Links

• kickoff2.com - Organisator of Kick Off World Cup 2005 and German Kick Off Headquarter
• Abundant Software - Game Developer Dino Dini's current development company
• Kick Off World - Fan Site located in Italy (organising local tournaments)
• Kickoffworld - Italian Kick Off Forum - The italian Kick Off Forum belong to the Italian Kick Off Organization (IKOA) and it's used on organising local tournaments
• Deutschland ist Weltmeister - Fan Site located in Germany (organising local tournaments)
• Kick Off 2 Weltmeisterschaft - Another Fan Site located in Germany (organising local tournaments)
• Kick Off 2 CUP - Home of Kick Off 2 players in and around Osnabrück / Germany
• Alkis - Greek Fan Site owned by the 2001 Kick Off 2 World Champion
• koa:.:net on line league - Kick Off 2 online league
• Kick Off 2 online - French Kick Off 2 online