Match Day (video game)

Match Day is a football computer game, published by Ocean Software in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum.

[3]: 209  By chance Ritman met David Ward, co-founder of Ocean Software, at a computer show and told him what he was working on.

This was the first soccer game for the ZX Spectrum where large moving footballers characters could dribble, throw-in, take corners, etc.

[5] The game has 8 teams that the player can choose, such as Ritman Rovers, Clarke PR and Ocean United.

Match Day was released in late 1984 and became a best-seller over the Christmas period reaching number 2 in the charts[6] behind Ghostbusters.

ZX Spectrum version