Sensible Software are brimming with confidence. Only this time they can see a healthy royalty stream flowing their way from the same capable publisher – Mirrorsoft – that’s signed their next three products. The controls weren’t refined but the game already felt miles better than anything else out there.Ī month later and Mega lo Mania has successfully launched, chalking up another number one for the lads – following on the heels of Wizball, MicroProse Soccer and International 3D Tennis. JH Of all the games we ever made this was the one that, within a month or two, you just knew it’d be a hit it just felt brilliant. It didn’t take Jops long to realise they were on to something special. Of all the games we ever made this was the one that, within a month or two, you just knew it’d be a hit it just felt brilliant.įrom these humble, unorthodox origins grew the grand behemoth that was Sensible Soccer. Within a matter of weeks we had a contract together and it was signed. It really was that simple – greenlit there and then. I’m not even a football fan but as soon as Jops showed me the mock-ups we both burst out laughing and it was instantly a ‘this game has to be made’ moment. He’d taken the little Mega lo Mania character sprites and drawn football kits on them. TB I was in the Sensible offices one morning and Jops was doodling away on DPaint. Mirrorsoft’s producer, Tony Beckwith, has come to see Jon Hare, who’s busy playing around with little digital men, dressing them up in sporty costumes … After 18 months of hard graft, Sensible Software’s epoch-spanning real-time strategy title Mega lo Mania is almost in the bag and ready to be handed over to a publisher with the potential to turn it into the company’s first real financial success.

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