On the opening screen you have three button choices, Amateur, Semi-Pro and Professional. These are the three leagues of Five-A-Side football you can play in this game with Amateur being the easiest and Professional the hardest. Clicking any of these buttons will take you to the Choices screen.

Here you can choose the time limit for your game by clicking one of the circles next to the time you want. The times shown are full times so 2 minutes will be 1 minutes for each half. By default the check mark is set to 10 minutes. After you have chosen your time, choose a team colour to play in by clicking either the red or white shirt. Clicking either of these buttons will take you to the match screen. The button, How Do I Play This Game, at the bottom of the screen produces a quick help window giving basic instructions on controlling the game.

In the first half of the game you play from right to left. Your score is shown at the top of the screen in the colour you are playing in i.e. white or red. You will find that your mouse pointer has been replaced by a yellow circle. To move your players, left click only once at the start of the match and then move the yellow circle over any of your team and then in the direction that you want them to run, normally towards the ball. No other control is required as when your player touches the ball it will be kicked. For a power shot, make sure the ball and your player are in the yellow circle and click the right mouse button. When you score a goal in the one you are kicking towards, the action will be frozen and a button will appear in the centre. Click it to continue. After you have scored, the computer team will start after you have clicked this button. They also start after half time which will be shown on the clock at the top of the screen which is set to the time you selected on the Choices screen. The time shown counts down from the time selected i.e. if you chose 2 minutes, each half is one minute and the clock counts down to zero from that. In the second half play is reversed so you are playing to score in the goal on the right.

When you reach Full Time and your score is better than the computer team's then you will be taken to the certificate screen. Here you are presented with a box where you can type in your team's name for your certificate and then click OK. A second box then appears where you can type in a name for the computer's team. The certificate will then show the score, your team's and the computer team's name. You can print this out by clicking the print button in the bottom right hand corner (see below for printing options). You can also press the back arrow button on the certificate page, which will start a new game.

The certificate is printed out in A5 size i.e. the top half of a sheet of A4 (US Letter). You can select Printer Setup and change to "Landscape" by pressing F6, if your printer supports this option. This will print the certificate out and enlarge it to full A4 size. Remember to reset your printer settings afterwards, back to portrait.

Unfortunately I can't get the program to print out the fonts as nicely as a word processor does but my son Richard was very pleased with the results, so I hope you are.

If you print out an A5 (half US letter size) then here are some instructions for displaying your certificate by standing it up.

The Top Menu

Game: Selecting Game in the Top Menu will produce the following Menu items:

New Game - Will restart the program so you can choose to play a new game. Any current score will be lost and reset to zero,
Pause - Pauses the game, click OK to continue,
Quit - Exits the program.

Options: Selecting Options in the Top Menu will produce the following Menu items:

Play Sounds - By default this is ticked (checked). To stop hearing the sound effects in the game, untick (uncheck) this option,
Change League - Starts a new game and allows you to choose a different league to play in.

Help: Selecting Help in the Top Menu will produce the following Menu items:

How To Play - Selecting this produces this help page,
Quick Help - Pops up a window with some basic instructions on how to play the game,
About - Tells you the name of this game and who made it i.e. me,
Grey Olltwit Online - Clicking this will connect you to the Internet and take you to my website where you will find lots of other free software games and screen savers for download.

To Uninstall this game go to the Control Panel and double click on Add/Remove programs. Select Grey Olltwit's Frantic Footy Game in the drop down list of programs. Double click to remove it.

N.B. This was made on a Pentium 166 virus free machine and may not run as well on other machines. No responsibility is accepted for any loss or damage caused by installing this game.

All my games and screen savers are freeware and are made to help raise awareness to the condition of ADD/ADHD. You can find out more about ADD/ADHD at our main website, adders.org at http://www.adders.org