Virtual Insanity: Rugby League's Video Game History, Part One
Football has FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer, Cricket has had the Brian Lara series and now the cleverly titled Cricket series and Rugby Union had the famous Jonah Lomu game as well as the EA Sports series in the mid 2000s. What about Rugby League though? How has the greatest game been translated into the video game universe? Let's take a look.... Part One: In The Dugout Following on from the success of Kevin Toms' original Football Manager series, Rugby League's first venture into the video game space was unsurprisingly made up of management titles with the first coming in 1989 in the shape of Rugby Boss which was made in 1989 by Alternative Software. Featuring an Alex Murphy lookalike on the cover and an action shot of what appears to be a fierce Calder derby between Featherstone and Castleford, Rugby Boss was available on both the Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. The game planted you in charge of one of a host of clubs with the system automatically placing you in the Sec...