GOLD RUSH '94 - The run for bronze
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GOLD RUSH '94 is the first project where I, 40 years later (some would say 40 years too late!),
reconnect with the brilliant Sinclair Basic for the ZX Spectrum.
A big thanks to Paul Dunn for providing the Speccy community with the excellent
BASIN Spectrum BASIC Development environment for PC/Windows!

If you ever played a football manager game, GOLD RUSH '94 will be very familiar.

However, GOLD RUSH '94 was designed for casual gaming.
A full tournament takes only about 15-20 minutes to complete.
To increase the replay value, each time you start the game you will be presented with slightly different conditions.

In the summer of '94 the Swedish national football team won the World Cup bronze medal,
creating a national football fever in the middle of an already unusually hot summer.
The song "När vi gräver guld i USA" (When we dig for gold in U.S.A) became the anthem for the success.
Can you echo the feat?

In GOLDRUSH '94 you play as the head coach for the Swedish national football team
during the 1994 World Cup in U.S.A. The teams you come up against are selected from the other 23 nations
that actually participated in the 1994 World Cup. The strengths and skills of the competing national teams
will be influenced by the authentic world-ranking they had in May 1994, just before the World Cup.
Your own squad consists of the authentic players who played in the Swedish national team shirt in the summer of '94.

While match results do reflect your decisions as manager, as well as the pre-match team strengths,
always remember: the game of football is not decided on paper, but on the pitch!
Also... world class players and players who manage to peak their form during a tournament
sometimes decide matches on their own!
