Ultimate Soccer

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Mega Drive Master System Game Gear
Ultimate Soccer
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Rage Software
Peripherals supported: Team Player, Gear-to-Gear Cable
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-8 1-2
Official in-game languages: English Français Deutsch Italiano Español
Release Date RRP Code EU 1993 1219 DE 1993-09 DM 110110 FR 1993 PT 1993 MDJ1219 UK 1993-09 £39.9939.99 1219 SE (Rental) 199x AS 199x EU 1993 7119 PT 199x UK 1993-08-02 £24.9924.99 7119 GR 199x BR 199x 024440 JP 1993-10-29 ¥3,8003,800 G-3333 EU 1993 2441 UK 1993-08-02 £29.9929.99 2441 BR 199x 075300

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Ultimate Soccer (アルティメイト サッカー) is a football game developed by Rage Software (who at the time specialised in sports games) and published in 1993 by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear. It is based on Rage's Commodore Amiga game Striker, released a year before, with Ultimate Soccer seeing release around the same time as the Super NES version of said game.

All three versions of the game were released in Europe, however Brazil did not see the Mega Drive version and Japan only saw the Game Gear port. No versions of Ultimate Soccer were released in North America.

Gameplay

Ultimate Soccer is one of many football games released for Sega systems, opting for a pseudo-3D top-down perspective. The game also features support for 8 players simultaneously. It also contains numerous Sonic the Hedgehog cameos.

Teams

The game contains 64 national teams to play as, though uses made-up names for the players, presumably due to licensing issues.

• Albania
• Algeria
• Angola
• Argentina
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cyprus
• Czech
• Denmark
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• England
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Guatemala
• Holland
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Italy
• Japan
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Luxembourg
• Malawi
• Malta
• Mexico
• Morocco
• Nigeria
• Nth. Ireland
• North Korea
• Norway
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Portugal
• Qatar
• Rep. Ireland
• Romania
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Scotland
• Slovakia
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Trinidad
• Turkey
• U. A. E.
• U. S. A.
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Wales

History

The success of Striker on multiple platforms led to it becoming a series of games, with future Sega releases dropping the Ultimate Soccer moniker and reverting back to the original name, with 1995's Striker (also published by Sega) being the first to do so on Sega platforms. Two other Striker games would be released on Sega consoles, Striker '96 for the Sega Saturn and UEFA Striker (known in North America as Striker Pro 2000) for the Sega Dreamcast.

Magazine articles

Main article: Ultimate Soccer/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Play Time (DE) #1993-08: "8/93" (1993-07-07)
also published in:

• Play Time (DE) #1993-03: "3/93" (1993-02-10)
• Sega Magazin (DE) #1: "September/Oktober 1993" (1993-09-01)

Print advert in Mega Force (ES) #17: "Septiembre 1993" (1993-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Hobby Consolas (ES) #24: "Septiembre 1993" (1993-xx-xx)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1993-11: "November 1993" (1993-10-08)

Print advert in Freak (IL) #16: "2/94" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in AS Magazin-Video Igrice (YU) #13: "Jul-Avgust 1995" (1995-xx-xx)
also published in:

• Svet Kompjutera (YU) #130: "Jul/Avgust 1995" (1995-xx-xx)
• Svet Kompjutera (YU) #132: "Septembar 1995" (1995-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive version

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 50 Alaab Alcomputtar (SA) 75 Computer & Video Games (UK) PAL 86 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 88 Joypad (FR) PAL 82 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 69 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) PAL 78 Mega (UK) PAL 93 Mega Action (UK) PAL 85 Megablast (DE) PAL 82 Mega Force (FR) 87 Mega Power (UK) PAL 50 MegaTech (UK) PAL 70 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 79 Player One (FR) PAL 75 Play Time (DE) 90 Sega Magazin (DE) PAL 86 Sega Power (UK) PAL 82 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 70 Sega Zone (UK) PAL 80 Sega Force (SE) 53 Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL 75 Todo Sega (ES) 90 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 60 Video Games (DE) PAL 82

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Ultimate Soccer

Mega Drive, EU
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Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, FR
Cover

Mega Drive, FR (Blister pack)
Cover

Mega Drive, PT
Cover

Mega Drive, SE (Rental)

Mega Drive, Asia
Cover
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Mega Drive, Asia (Wywy)
Cover
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Master System version

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Publication Version Score Aktueller Software Markt (DE) PAL 67 Consoles + (FR) PAL 88 Computer & Video Games (UK) PAL 12 Gamers (DE) 73 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 76 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 42 Play Time (DE) 78 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 18 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 84 Sega Master Force (UK) PAL 90 Video Games (DE) PAL 70

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Ultimate Soccer

Master System, EU
Cover
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Master System, PT

Master System, GR
Cover

Master System, BR
Cover
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Game Gear version

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Publication Version Score Alaab Alcomputtar (SA) 81 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 53 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 48 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 50 Joypad (FR) PAL 86 Mega Force (FR) 71 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 76 Player One (FR) PAL 70 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 78 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 64

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Ultimate Soccer

Game Gear, JP
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Game Gear, EU
Cover
Cart Manual

Game Gear, FR
Cart Manual

Game Gear, BR
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 15668ca4 MD5 c2c9a7942adb055ef08671c03648ed06 SHA-1 e0adf52b6e1f54260dd6ea80e99ffb8bf76fd49a	256kB		Cartridge (EU)
?	CRC32 820965a3 MD5 23ed27ebb1ed0f22610e132a3668f06b SHA-1 7994621926628d2376a75e8d90cd066d48a4d502	256kB		Cartridge (JP/EU)