Trophy: Passion Cup
I'm currently at home in Glasgow for a fortnight and as such don't have access to all my games in London. As a result, the only stuff I have handy are my PSP, my DS, my mobile phone and the wonderful world of online Flash games. It's the latter I've dipped into in order to secure this little beauty.
I studied journalism at Uni for four years. One day early on in my third year I was hard at work on an essay, when an email arrived in my inbox from my classmate (and flatmate at the time). It was simply titled "F***ing Quality" (I'll leave you to fill in the stars yourselves) and featured only a link, with no other text in it. I clicked the link and before I knew it my essay had taken a back seat. For the next three hours.
The game was a little Flash game called Magical Kicks, and it featured on the official website of Italian football legend Roberto Baggio. It's pretty basic: it's just a series of free kick set-pieces which are presented to you at random, and it's up to you to score the free kick. You do this with four simple clicks of the mouse.
Click 1 - Starts the height meter moving.
Click 2 - Sets the height of your shot and starts the aiming meter.
Click 3 - Sets the area of the goal you want to aim for and starts the curve meter.
Click 4 - Sets the amount of curve and hits the shot.
That's it. In all it takes about six or seven seconds, yet a serious session at Uni could end up lasting hours. Many a time the staff at the Uni's computer lab threatened to kick us out as we let out an uncontrollable "YASSSSS" any time we finally scored a tricky free kick, and many an essay was delayed over the following two years.
The game was eventually taken off Baggio's site, much to our disappointment, but it recently surfaced again in its Version 2.0 form, which basically means it's on a different site and can be played full screen instead of in a small window. And it's just as addictive as ever.
So how do you get a cup in it? Well, every four free kicks you score you win a "Passion Cup". Simple as that.
Here's a video of me winning one of those cups, as well as the ever-necessary screenshot.
CLICK HERE TO PLAY MAGICAL KICKS YOURSELF
2 comments:
Yay! A football game I can play for free! :-D
I remember this game, used to play during ICT lessons back in year 7. Decent it was :)
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