Competitive e-sports with a 25-year-old Amiga game

The Classic Amiga games only had a joystick with one button, but they were always more fun to play because of the way they were developed.<p>My brother and I would play Demolition Ball it was like that game in Battlestar Galactica where players armored up and tried to pass a ball into a hole in the wall and knocked each other over to try and get the ball or intercept a pass. I can&#x27;t seem to find it anywhere and a friend borrowed all my Amiga disks and never returned them after moving out of state. But it was fun to play and knock over the other players with a spiked fist and get the ball in the hole in the wall before time ran out for the quarter.<p>If you ask me the games for the Amiga were just more fun to play than any other platform at the time. If the CD32 didn&#x27;t have a patent issue that prevented it from being sold in the USA, it would have sold a lot with fun to play games.<p>Bard&#x27;s Tale for the Amiga was fun with good music and graphics. The Bard&#x27;s Tale remake wasn&#x27;t as fun and sort of miss out on what made the Classic Bard&#x27;s Tale so great. They even had books based on Bard&#x27;s Tale that sold really well as well as other stuff.<p>A lot of these Amiga games it is hard to get the IP to recreate them on modern platforms, it is good to see Dino Dino make a version of their Kick Off for the PS4, I hope it is as fun as the Amiga version was.

KickOff, what a sweet joystick-ruining afternoon-filling game... The first one was slightly flawed (Russia was so much faster than any other team, you could just outrun pretty much anyone), but the second was insanely good.<p>KO and Sensible Soccer were probably the best overhead-perspective football games ever released on any platform, a triumph of function over form. Then modern graphic cards for PCs hit the market, and Electronic Arts successfully leveraged form-over-function to build an empire.

As it mentions, the developer Dino Dini is working on a new football game for PS4. Also one of the developers behind Sensible Soccer is working on a new game. Dino has a slightly unhinged twitter feed as well.

Kick Off is a surprising choice. I thought most people preferred Sensible Soccer over Kick Off.

Earl Weaver&#x27;s Baseball (Amiga 500) would be a good competitive e-sports game for the present day. Create your own players, teams, stadiums. Compete. Multiple computers supported.