World Championship Soccer cover

World Championship Soccer

Sport
50
User Score
9 ratings
June 29, 1989
Released 13450 days ago
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

About

The game presents a top-down view of a simple version of soccer (there are no fouls, substitutions, or strategies). Players must dribble and pass the ball towards one end of the field and try to score a goal by forcing the ball into the opposing team's net.

Storyline

This is the second World Cup official licensed franchise game based on the 1990 FIFA World Cup featuring the official logo and the mascot, the first having been the ill-fated and little-known World Cup Carnival for the 1986 FIFA World Cup. The game gives official groups, teams and the fidelity schedule of the championship. Gameplay occurs at a birds eye view.
It was ported by U.S. Gold for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The Spectrum version of the game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Manchester United. After the World Cup, the game was released as World Championship Soccer and later renamed to Sega Soccer on the Mega 6 compilation cartridge on the Mega Drive removing the Virgin Mastertronic credits. In Brazil was released with the name Super Futebol II.
World Cup Italia 90 sees the player given the choice of participating as any of the teams that featured in the tournament itself, and no qualifying tournaments to reach the World Cup are available on this game.

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Release Dates by Platform

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Worldwide
Jun 29, 1989
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Worldwide
Apr 18, 1990

Game Info

Developer
Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Publisher
Virgin Mastertronic, Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Game Modes
Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Genres
Sport

Languages

Text / Subtitles
English

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