So many of the better games during the summer
of 1984 seemed to be sports simulations of the active kind rather than
the strategic armchair sort, of which type Match Point was a supreme
example. We had come to expect rather special programs from Psion and
Match Point didn't disappoint us. It points up the advances in Spectrum
programming which underlines to some extent comments made at the time
by programmer Simon Brattel, which encouraged programmers to write better
and better looking programs.
There was an arcade version of tennis which did look
good, but apart from the coloured sprites of the players there is little
that Psion's Match Point can't didn't match the arcade original, and
in fact the perspective view was more realistic.
