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Schoolboy Sixes 3.1 Full Version
12 March 1998
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Introduction
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Welcome to Schoolboy Sixes, the nostalgic look back at when you used
to get up on Sunday mornings only to be knocked senseless by the
overgrown fullback. Of course now you are far more responsible and
grown-up, now you just get up on a Sunday afternoon with a banging
headache from the beer night before. 

Enough of this beer talk lets get back to the game. You are the
grown-up who has to craft and mould a group of unruly fifteen
year olds from a Brentwood council estate into a sleek championship
winning side.

Loading Instructions
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Schoolboy Sixes will run on any Amiga providing it has no less than
1 meg of memory. To load please place your game disk in Drive A and
wait for the introduction. Simply click the left or right mouse button
to skip the introduction that took ages to create (ungrateful sods!) and
you will see the local sports section of the Brentwood chronicle. Accept
the job offer by clicking on the advert and you will be the new coach
of Brentwood U15 football club. Failure to do this will result in a
very short and boring game.

The Game
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You take the role of Austin MacNamara, new manager of Brentwood U15's.
Due to the dwindling numbers of youngsters interested in Sunday League
these days the leagues have changed somewhat. In the Bamford County
Six-A-Side Sunday League their is ten competing teams which are dotted
around the county. Brentwood is situated on the outskirts of the county
and their pitch is in the middle of Brentwwod council estate. Being the
manager of a young lads team can be more difficult than you can imagine,
such things as piano lessons or going shopping with mum can stop your star
player from attending Sunday mornings. Be careful of the pitch conditions
too as if the weather is lousy most parents won't let their sons play.

You should now be looking at a screen with four options; The Lads,
Sign a Trialist, Tables and Sunday Morning.

The Lads
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In front of you now should be your squad of 12 willing although not able
players. By clicking on one of the players with your right mouse key you
will bring up their statistics. This shows their age, how many they have
played, how many they have scored and also all their different attributes,
such as pace and stamina. Two new factors that you don`t see in many games
of this type are the average ratings and the assists. The former being that
after every game each player gains a mark out of ten for their performance. 
Through the tournament they are given an average rating to show how well
they are performing. For example a player with an average rating of 2.84
is playing extremely poorly. The latter feature is the assists, this is
to show who is actually setting up the goalscorers so that you can find
your best playmaker. Remember to keep a happy squad as many other managers
would be more than helpful to take a fresh new face of your hands.

Going back to the squad screen you will see four buttons. The first is
obvious as that it takes you back to the first menu. The second is the
Match Info screen clicking this with your left mouse button brings up
all Bazza's info on your next opponents, such as their tactics or their
danger man. The third is the tactics screen this is where you select your
different strategies, such as playing deep, etc. The fourth is to select
and move your team around to best suit you. Firstly click the move button,
click on the player you wish to move, then click on the player you
wish to swap him with. You must select each option with the left mouse
key to accomplish this task. Your team is based on six outfield players,
three substitutes and three reserves. Remember to choose wisely as you are
only allowed three substitutions in one match and cannot use your reserves.

Sign a Trialist
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Selecting this menu lets you sign a new trialist to inject new life into
your squad. You are only allowed to sign one trialist a week so choose
carefully. Bazza has vetted the trailists in training and will give
you his prospects rating for each lad. However we all know what Bazza
is like. To sign somebody up you simply click on the lad you are
interested in and then select the shoddy reject from your squad which
you want to get rid of. A word of warning, watch that other managers
don't try to pilfer one of your own lads or that one of these trialists
doesn't come back to haunt you.

Tables
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This is straightforward as this screen will show your teams current
standing. There is also four extra options to select these are; your
fixture list for this year, the squad's details such as goals scored,
average ratings, etc. and finally the club details of your opposition -
by clicking on their team name this will bring the full details up of that
team.

Sunday Morning
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This menu goes directly to the game, firstly it will show you the team
line ups, then by clicking the left mouse key you're straight into the
action. Each match is fifteen minutes each way and is played on variously
undesirable pitches. To change tactics or use your substitutes you
must click the left mouse key on the subs/tactics button, this will bring
you to the squad screen where you can make substitutions in just the same
way as you would move a player. Remembering of course that you can only
use three substitutes in one game. 


Please note that if you require to quit the game for any reason (ungrateful
sods! part II) and don`t want to restart your Amiga, simply hold down the
Cntrl + C keys to quit.

If you would like information about other titles in our range then please
contact the following:

                       F1 Software
                       1 Lower Mill Close
                       Goldthorpe                       
                       Rotherham
                       South Yorkshire
                       S63 9BY
                       England

                       Tel: +44 (0) 1709 888127

So what are you waiting for, get down to Brentwood and start getting those
lads into shape!!

McCloud Software Information
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We hope you enjoy our product and would welcome any comments you may wish
to send to us, ie improvements, new concepts.

Watch out for World Cup Sixes '98 coming soon - You have the chance to
manage the England squad of your choice, against teams from around the globe
in a six-a-side knockout competition. You will be able to choose from a
crop of English stars such as Michael Owen, Paul Gascoigne, etc, in order
for you to try and guide England to the World Cup six-a-side trophy final.
A host of exciting features are also included which are all unique to the
soccer management world. Please contact F1 Software today for future releae
dates and other software titles in our range.


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McCloud Software (c)1998 in collaboration with F1 Software distributors
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This game is dedicated to the memory of Mr Austin MacNamara, whose presence
on this small sphere will be sadly missed.