Push-Over (Ocean, 1992)

Developed by Red Rat Software.
Concept by Chris Partington.
Design by Harry Nadler, Helen Elcock, Avril Rigby, Don Rigby and Chris Waterworth.
Licenced from Smiths Crisps Ltd.
Box art by John Haslam.

ATARI ST version:
Programming by Dave Elcock, Helen Elcock and Keith Watterson. Graphics by Bryan King, Barry S. Armstrong, John Palmer and William Harbison. Music and sound effects by Keith Tinman, Dean Evans and Jonathan Dunn.

COMMODORE AMIGA and IBM-PC versions:
Programming by Dave Elcock, Helen Elcock and Keith Watterson. Graphics by Bryan King and Barry S. Armstrong. Music and sound effects by Keith Tinman, Dean Evans and Jonathan Dunn.

SUPER NINTENDO version by Red Rat Software; further details unknown.

All versions released by Ocean Software in 1992.

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INTRODUCTION & GAME STATUS

After 11 years of blogging almost entirely about games from the 1980's, it has been brought to my attention that games from the 90's should be included as well, so I'm now trying to gradually ease my way into that area. Mind you, games from the 90's were not nearly as different across different platforms as what the 80's had, so the focus will still be largely on the 80's stuff. For now, though, the first comparison from the 90's since the comparison of The Simpsons: Bart vs. Space Mutants from 2021, is another Ocean game - the newest classic era game on the blog so far.

Match Day (Ocean Software, 1984)

Designed and written by Jon Ritman and Chris Clarke for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, with sounds by Guy Stevens. Published by Ocean Software in 1984.

Acorn BBC Micro version by Chris Roberts, and published by Ocean Software in 1985.

Amstrad CPC/PCW version by Sentient Software Ltd, and published by Ocean Software in 1985.

Commodore 64 version by Mercury Microwave:
Programming and graphics by Derek Ham and Paul Thomas Ralphs, with music by Martin Galway.
Published by Ocean Software in 1986 in "They Sold A Million II" compilation; no standalone release is known to exist.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k updated version released as "International Match Day" was written by Jon Ritman and Chris Clarke, with loading screen by Frederick David Thorpe. Published by Ocean Software in 1986.

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INTRODUCTION & GAME STATUS

Ocean October 2024 starts off with a game that all the retrogamers out there will already know, which version will lose the most spectacularly. I'm not completely sure, though, whether Match Day is really a game we need to put too much energy into comparing, though, because ever since football games went over to the 16-bits, trying to decide on which one is better over any other has been as futile as trying to decide whether pineapple belongs on a pizza or not. But here at FRGCB, the comparison shall be made nonetheless.