In 1988, Dini was hired to code a top down football game from a Steve Screech idea. In 1989 Kick Off was then published by Anil Gupta's publishing houseAnco for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. The original version was designed and programmed by Dino Dini with graphics, playtesting and tuning by Steve Screech, it was critically acclaimed and sold very well. Dini followed it with Player Manager and Kick Off 2. Goal! was then released after Dini left Anco and moved to Virgin Games in 1993. Goal! was critically acclaimed worldwide.Goal! introduced more user friendly controls compared to Kick Off 2 and entertained a wider audience than its predecessor. It was also called the real Kick Off 3 by the Kick Off fans. In 1996, Dini moved to the United States to work as Project Director for the Z-Axis football game Three Lions. It was released in 1998. In 2001, Dini moved back to Great Britain and started to work with his new development company, Abundant Software. In 2004, Dini signed with DC Studios to develop a new soccer game which was code-named Soccer 3 and later Total Control Football. The game was cancelled during the summer of 2005. After 2005, Dini worked as a contractor on a government-funded project. In 2009, he became a lecturer for the International Game Architecture and Design programme at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, teaching game programming. At the 2009 Game Developers Conference Europe in Cologne,, Dini was guest speaker on the subject of video game design. In 2010, Dino ran unsuccessfully for a position on the International Game Developers Associationboard of directors. In August of that year, he announced via his blog that he was working on a sequel to his game Player Manager as an independent project. In 2011 he contributed articles and the beta version of his browser-based game Letteroids 3D to DevilsMMO, a website for MMO and MMORPG games. On 14 October 2015, Dino Dini announced a new game entitled Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival. It was released on the PlayStation 4 on 24 June 2016, with poor reviews from game journalists, and from players metacritics then elected Dino Dini Kick Off Revival the 2nd worst game of 2016, Games Master magazine considered it the worst game on Playstation 4 and Vice even elected Revival as the worst football game ever made. A PlayStation Vita version was delayed and released nine months later in March 2017 with bad reviews. The PC version was released in Steam on September 2017 and it was an exact port of the Playstation 4 version. It has also received bad reviews for being a very basic game missing many features of the original Kick Off games.
