Striker (Mega Drive)

For other versions of the game, see Striker.

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Striker
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Rage Software
Distributor: Ecofilmes (PT), Datart International (CZ)
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad
Genre: Sports (football)
Number of players: 1-2
Official in-game languages: English Français Deutsch Español Italiano
Release Date RRP Code EU 1995-06 1185-50 DE 1995 DM 129.00129.00 1185-50 PT 1995 MDJ1185 UK 1995-06 £49.9949.99 1185-50 CZ 1995 AU 1995 $69.9569.95
Non-Sega versions Amiga Amiga CD32 Atari ST IBM PC Super NES

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Striker is a Sega Mega Drive football game. It was only released in Europe.

Confusingly it is the fourth game by Rage Software to use the Striker moniker - the original Striker was released for the Amiga in 1992 (later ported to the Amiga CD32 in 1994) and formed the basis for all Striker games to come. A second Striker was released for the Super Nintendo in 1993, being known as World Soccer '94: Road to Glory in North America, World Soccer in Japan and Eric Cantona Football Challenge in France, which was followed by World Cup Striker (released as Elite Soccer in North America) the next year. This fourth Striker was made exclusive to Sega systems as a spiritual sequel to Ultimate Soccer.

Gameplay

Striker takes influences from all prior football games released by Rage Software while also adding a list of features for itself. Of note is the multiple camera perspectives for the pitch and wide array of added features, including over 340 local and national teams (over five times the amount seen in Ultimate Soccer).

Due to a lack of FIFA (or other footballing body) licensing, local teams and players have falsified-but-recognisable names (for example, Newcastle becomes "Oldcastle").

Uniquely for the Mega Drive, Striker features multiple possible camera angles, an effect created on the Super NES through the use of its "mode 7" hardware graphics mode, but replicated here entirely in software while still retaining a 50FPS refresh rate (remembering the game was only released in PAL regions).

With a Six Button Control Pad, you can switch between the three view modes using , and .

Striker also includes a hidden table football game.

Magazine articles

Main article: Striker (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

NL flyer

Print advert in Hobby Consolas (ES) #46: "Julio 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 59 Consoles + (FR) 91 Digitiser (UK) PAL 84 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 76 Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL 78 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 72 Mega (UK) PAL 72 Mega Force (FR) PAL 84 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 27 Player One (FR) PAL 81 Play Time (DE) 55 Sega Power (UK) PAL 79 Sega Power (GR) 70 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 84 Todo Sega (ES) 75 Top Consoles (FR) 50 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 84 Video Games (DE) PAL 82

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Striker (Mega Drive)

Mega Drive, EU
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Cart Manual

Mega Drive, PT
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Cart Manual EU Manual

Mega Drive, CZ/SK (ITO CS)
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Cart Manual

Mega Drive, CZ (Datart)
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Cart Manual

Technical information

Main article: Striker (Mega Drive)/Technical information.