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Release Date 25 April 2013
Release Type Freeware
Content Advisory Occasional, mild | None | Occasional, mild
Operating System Windows
Setting Contemporary
Genre Comedy
Story Original
Play Length Medium Length Game
Language English
Graphics 320x200, 32-Bit Colour
Downloaded 3,387 All Time

About

The game tells a story of a homeless man who communicates with the world using an old sock on his right hand. He's a huge football fan and plays it a lot near his backalley. One day he gets mugged by a wandering bully and looses his precious ball in the process. Now he must pull himself together, team up with a local superhero, find a new ball and confront his oppressor again.

Available in English, German & Polish

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Banana Racer Testing
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RAM Ghost Testing
Rat Channel Tester
Sheep Quest Testing, Proofreading
SLEUTH Voice acting
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Tales - Tech Demo German Version Proofreading
Technobabylon - Part 3: In Nuntius Veritas Testing
The Unprintable MAGENTA head beta tester
The Visitor Testing
The Visitor 2 Testing
The Visitor 3 Testing
Wages of Darkness beta testing
Yago, the Coquerrestrial Thank you for reporting some bugs.

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9 Months In VA, Testing
A Second Face - The Eye of Geltz is Watching Us Voice of Fraka
AGS Awards Ceremony 2016 Organizing and hosting
AGS Awards Ceremony 2017 Organizing and hosting
AGS Awards Ceremony 2018 Organizing, Production, Hosting
AGS Awards Ceremony 2020 Organizing
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Apple Farm Everything
Big Blue World Domination [MAGS] Testing
Black Sect Remake testing and additional graphics
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UNGA needs MUMBA voice acting

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AGS Awards Ceremony 2020 Presentation Animations
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Sumatra: Fate of Yandi Testing and QA
Tales help on early version of the game
Tales - Tech Demo German Localization
The Art of Dying Betatester
The Journey of Iesir Demo Testing
The Mind [MAGS March 2020] Music
The Perfidious Petrol Station German Translation
The Samaritan Paradox Testing
The Shaft Playtesting
Troll Song - Verse One - DEMO Testing
Troll Song Verse One - Completely Stoned Testing
Wages of Darkness beta testing

abstauber German proofreading
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Celtic Chaos - Episode Two : Fishermen’s Fiends testing
CGA: Christmas Game Arcade Everything except music
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Featherweight Testing
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Patchwork Custom Dialog GUI module
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Rufus story the 9-verb template
The Vestibule (demo) Background Art and Scripting
TREX and Muscle SAM: A New Kickstart! CustomDialogGui Module

Ghost German proofreading
[Into the series] Shogin Crystal Legends B2 SFX
10 Ways From Sunday BASS Template
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2034: A.C. (After Canada) II [Bake Sale 2] Icons & Playtesting
4 of Clubs beta testing
A-Mused [MAGS January 2014] Lightweight BASS Template
AGS Awards Ceremony 2008 Auditorium graphics, cutscenes
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Shifter's Box - Outside In Testing
Sinking [OROW] testing
Tales help on early version of the game
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The Visitor Testing
The Visitor 2 Scripting help
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Zombie Attack (BAKE SALE) Testing, Bake Sale Splash Screen

mamarulez German proofreading
Crash! Evade! Destroy! Beta Testing
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Indiana Jones™ and the Passage of Saints Testing
Indiana Jones™ and the Temple of Spheres Additional coding
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Revelation Everything including art and music as we
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Awards & Reviews

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AGS Awards 2013 Winner

AGS Awards 2013 Winner

Best Player Character
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AGS Awards 2013 Nominee

AGS Awards 2013 Nominee

Best Background Art
Best Game Created with AGS for 2013
Best Puzzles

Pick of the Month

June 2013

Help a homeless bum and his talking sock to get revenge for a destroyed ball. The crazy story, brilliant old-school graphics and puzzles will immediately take you to the golden age of adventure gaming.

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By Tabata on 31 May 2014

A very entertaining p&c adventure with lots of retro-feeling, humor, interesting characters and nice puzzles.
I just would like the dialogs to be skippable (when realizing that there is the same long dialog again) like mentioned before.
Overall it is to be seen that a lot of effort has been put into this very nice game successfully and I really can recommend you to play it. I had a lot of fun doing so - let's talk to the sock! ^-^


By abstauber on 21 May 2014

I enjoyed this one very much. As everyone else already wrote - it's full of Sierra and Lucas Arts nostalgia. The graphics fit the setting perfectly and there's quite a lot of animation going on here.
But it's not only the presentation - it also fun as hell.

Try it, even if you're not a soccer fan.


By DoorKnobHandle on 18 May 2014

This is a neat game with excellent graphical retro fidelity, the animations being the weakest part but still very nice. I also liked the overall idea and characters in the game.

I did not like the pacing (as people have said, the dialogs drag on and on and on, too much text and way too many character.Say(...) pauses as well, almost between every line of dialog). This makes the game take much longer to play than it should and can be really frustrating. I wasn't very keen on a lot of the puzzles either, as they seemed fairly far-fetched and absurd. There's a couple more no-nos: one or two pixel hunts, some unclear exits (some you have to use, others you can just walk near to), interactions being locked off until you do a specific thing and, probably the most important, a lot of repeatedly inspecting objects to trigger actions.

It's still a decent game, as I said, I'm just trying to point out the things that stood out to me in a negative way so you can try and work on these aspects for the next installment!


By Haggis on 3 May 2014

A fantastic game that channels the spirit of the early 90's adventure gaming. References and cameos all over the place to classic games, movies and tv shows. Great story and locations, perfect pacing and game length, I can only highly recommend it.


By TomatoesInTheHead on 27 February 2014

I really enjoyed this game. The whole game shows a lot of effort, in puzzle diversity, in pacing, in animations, in music, in characters, and especially in humour. I laughed out loud quite some times, and chuckled even more often. Looking forward to the sequel!

One minor thing: While funny, the dialogues were often pretty long, with many pauses, especially when you look a second time at an object, it is a bit annoying when you have to click the text away and have to wait through all the small pauses. Still, this doesn't take much from the overall enjoyment. Well done, a well-chosen Pick of the Month, and all hopefully upcoming AGS Awards will be well-deserved!


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