European Club Soccer by Virgin Games: 30 years on
Welcome back to the Retro Bloginator. I found European Club Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive on eBay for GBP4. Which is very reasonable for an authentic cartridge. However when I noticed it was free postage worldwide, I had no other choice but to snap it up. With the postage to Australia, I'd be surprised if the seller made anything on this. European Club Soccer (seeing it's a British game, I'm not sure why they just didn't call it European Club Football) was one of the first games I purchased when I got my Mega Drive in 1993. I think I got it at a car boot sale for GBP5. I played it SO much. I was really into geography at this age so a game which incorporated teams from cities and countries all around Europe fascinated me. As my team Bristol Rovers weren't in it (understandable as they were in Division 2, the equivalent of the English Championship) at that time, I went overseas to pick my "go to" club. I chose Torpedo Moscow, as I loved the name. Probably an...