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Albert

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Okay, I have a question for all you Lynx gurus out there. I have a copy of World Class Soccer, but the box says World Class Fussball/Soccer. In the catalogs I've been scanning, it's listed as World Class Soccer. In the game itself, it's called World Class Soccer. So what's with "Fussball"? Was it ever released in a "World Class Soccer" box?

 

And what the heck is "Fussball"? Is that just another word for Soccer (in some strange, foreign tongue like German?) If so, was this an international release of the game?

 

Thanks for quenching my curiosity.

 

..Al

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Is'nt Fussball played on a table with rows of guys that spin on poles stuck though their sides?  

 

thats table football Lemmi - BTW if you ever go to France and an eight year old kid asks you to play that, run a mile - they treat Table Football like you treat Baseball or something.

 

Ive been a football(thats the English version) fan all my life and Ive never come accross the term Fussball.

 

Spelling mistake?

 

Adam

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Originally posted by Fretwobbler:

Ive been a football(thats the English version) fan all my life and Ive never come accross the term Fussball.

 

Spelling mistake?


 

If you do a search for fussball on Google, you'll come up with quite a few hits. For instance, here's a Fussball Online site. Judging by the soccer ball that's part of the site's logo, I'd say Fussball is just another word for Soccer (or Football as it's known outside the US). Oh, and table soccer is called Foosball.

 

I'd still like to know if the box is available in a style that simply says, "World Class Soccer".

 

..Al

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Thats interesting - which country has DNS lookups ending with .ch???

 

At first I thought it could have been a slang term for indoor football which is referred to as softball and sometimes people call the furry footballs used indoors fuzzy.

 

I cant recognize that language at all on that .ch site (not that I can speak any other languages!!) but I can normally pick out some words you can recognize.

 

Adam

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Fussball is german for soccer. (See Deutscher Fussball-Bund website)

 

I think they put it on the box to attract the German people (soccer is quite popular there) since English is not much spoken over there and they might not know that soccer is the same as Fussball.

An easy mistake is to translate fussball to football which is a different kind of ball game than soccer.

 

Robert

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since English is not much spoken over there and they might not know that soccer is the same as Fussball  

 

 

 

I think most of the people in Germany (maybe not the older) speaks english, since you have to learn this in school

 

Günther

 

[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: ren.dhark ]

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Now that im older and not in School, i wish now that i would have taken a language class, it wasnt a required class back when i went to High School, i think now i would have taken a German class, just because part of my family came from Germany , my Grandfathers parents came from Germany to america in 1904

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I´m older too (35), and I forgot most of the things I learned at school (my english was better at this time). But if you are interessted in classic games, it´s better you understand english.

 

And Lemmi, it´s not too late learning another language.

 

Günther

 

[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: ren.dhark ]

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Originally posted by ren.dhark:

Maybe we should start a new contest: the oldest guys at AtariAge

 

Günther

 

Sounds like fun and add this also "Do you have all your hair? or are you losing it as we speak?

 

so mine would look like this 31 , have all my hair and not losing it

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Originally posted by Fretwobbler:

Wheres Jahfish when you need him - he can speak loads of languages


 

here am i - hier bin ich . je suis ici - bonjorno bologna!

 

 

 

sorry, but lynx isn't really my section ... but i think günther has explained everything ... switzerland is divided in three parts/regions, they speak french, german and italian, depensing on the region. zurich for example is in the german-speaking part ....

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