Striker (Mega Drive)

For the Sega Saturn game, see Striker '96. For the Sega Mega Drive control, see Striker Stereo Control Pad.

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Mega Drive Game Gear
Striker (Mega Drive)
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Rage Software
Genre: Sports
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 AU 1995 $69.9569.95 EU 1995 2551-50 PT 199x
Non-Sega versions Amiga Amiga CD32 Atari ST IBM PC Super NES

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Striker (Mega Drive) is a Sega Mega Drive and Sega Game Gear 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).

Striker also includes a hidden table football game.

History

Development

Sega Mega-CD and Sega 32X versions of the game were planned, but were never finished. Rage had plans to use the disc space to incorporate 200,000 football teams in the Mega-CD version - a feat no football game developer has ever come close to matching. The 32X version was due for release in Spring 1995 and would have had "astounding" visual effects.

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

Mega Drive version

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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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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 b421c057 MD5 bea0f43795028285e34738c15c5ddba9 SHA-1 dc51ed36b12d1a943bcf79d9ab246505a190f795	512kB		Cartridge (EU)