Sensible Soccer was always a computer game that rewarded a bit of swerve: bash the ball forward, find the right angle on the left-hand side, launch the ball at goal and then wrench on the joystick with all your might.
Many a match was won in that fashion (the old succession-of-diving-headers-moving-the-ball-the-length-of-the-pitch technique was an old favourite too) but the amount of movement on the ball was never particularly realistic.
Well, until 1997 that is. Roberto Carlos’s famous swerving free-kick for Brazil against France in 1997 showed just what could be done with a straight run up and a furious swish of the left peg. And now that goal has been recreated, Sensible-style:
It’s a lovingly accurate recreation from the folk at 8bitfootball, right down to Fabien Barthez’s hopeless look of despair and befuddlement as the ball fizzes back from yards outside of his left-hand post.
