FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Mega Drive)

For the Sega Saturn game, see FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Saturn).

n/a

FIFA Road to World Cup 98

System(s): Sega Mega Drive

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: Electronic Arts, Extended Play Productions, XYZ Productions

Sound driver: Electronic Arts/Kevin Pickell

Peripherals supported: 4 Way Play

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1-4

Official in-game languages:

English

Français

Español

Italiano

Svenska

Release	Date	Code
ES	1997	EAF02401350I
FR	1997	EAF02401350I
UK	1997	EAX02401350I
IT	1997	EAI02401350I

Non-Sega versions
Super NES

This short article is in need of work. You can help Sega Retro by adding to it.

FIFA Road to World Cup 98 is a 1997 soccer game by Electronic Arts released for the Sega Mega Drive as a sequel (or update) to FIFA 97: Gold Edition. As with its predecessor, the Mega Drive version is an isometric game which lacks the 3D technology seen in other ports.

History

While each country got the same game ROM, each country got slightly different packaging featuring players from that country's national soccer team. It is supposedly the last officially-licensed Mega Drive game released in Europe (but this is unconfirmed), and was released exclusively in this region.

Versions

As was the case with FIFA Soccer 96 and FIFA 97: Gold Edition, FIFA 98 was ported from the Mega Drive to the Super NES and released around the same time period. Following a tradition set out by the previous two games, the Super NES version runs with a lower frame rate, although the gap has been closed slightly from previous iterations.

Production credits

Produced By: Extended Play Productions
Developer: XYZ Productions
Programmers - XYZ: Larry Garner, Umrao Mayer
Artists - XYZ: George Simmons, Terry Lloyd
Music - XYZ: Eric Swanson
Producer - XYZ: Umrao Mayer
Animator - XYZ: George Simmons
Art Direction: David Adams
Executive Producer: Bruce McMillan
Line Producer: Marc Aubanel
Associate Producer: Louise Read
Assistant Producer: John Stroppa
Technical Director: Kevin Pickell
Product Managers: Duncan Magee, Margaret Murray
Special Thanks: Jennifer Campbell, Penny Lee, Brian Plank, Nicholas Wlodyka, Doug Casey
QA Coordinator: John Santamaria
QA Lead: Andrew Chan
Assistant Lead: Aaron Grant
QA Testers: Aaron Watmough, Edward Chiu, Mark Peters, Richard Barrett
Language Testing: Sylvain Caburrosso, Andrea Bernardoni, Antonio Lopez, Alexander Golubowitsch
QA Mastering: Peter Petkov, Cary Chao, Jeff Hutchinson
QA Test: Colin Cox, Darcy Gog, Paul Breland, Chris Wallace, Jason Feser, Zech Prinz
QA Special Thanks: Bob Purewal, Randy Parmar, Bill Kim, Geoff Ball

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Gameshow (TR) #32: "Kasım 1997" (1997-xx-xx)

Print advert in Gameshow (TR) #36: "Mart-Nisan 1998" (1998-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Mega Drive, UK
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, FR
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, ES
Cover
Cart

Mega Drive, IT
Cover
Cart PCB

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	96947f57
MD5	3c7380bea3c1d479e5604006eab86961
SHA-1	6613f13da5494aaaba3222ed5e730ec9ce3c09a7

2MB

1997-10

Cartridge (EU)

References

Electronic Arts sports games for Sega systems
American Football
John Madden Football (1990) \| John Madden Football '92 (1991) \| John Madden Football '93 (1992) \| John Madden Football: Championship Edition (1992) \| Mutant League Football (1993) \| Madden NFL '94 (1993) \| Bill Walsh College Football (1993) \| Bill Walsh College Football '95 (1994) \| Madden NFL '95 (1994) \| Madden NFL 96 (1995) \| College Football USA 96 (1995) \| Madden NFL 97 (Mega Drive) (1996) \| Madden NFL 97 (Saturn) (1996) \| College Football USA 97 (1996) \| Madden NFL 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) \| Madden NFL 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Baseball
Tony La Russa Baseball (1993) \| MLBPA Baseball (1994) \| La Russa Baseball 95 (1994) \| Triple Play 96 (1995) \| Triple Play: Gold Edition (1996)
Basketball
Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs (1990) \| Bulls vs Lakers and the NBA Playoffs (1991) \| Jordan vs Bird (1992) \| Team USA Basketball (1992) \| Bulls versus Blazers and the NBA Playoffs (1993) \| NBA Showdown '94 (1994) \| NBA Live 95 (1994) \| NBA Live 96 (1995) \| Coach K College Basketball (1995) \| NBA Live 97 (Mega Drive) (1996) \| NBA Live 97 (Saturn) (1996) \| NBA Live 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) \| NBA Live 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Golf
Zany Golf (1990) \| PGA Tour Golf (1990) \| PGA Tour Golf II (1992) \| PGA Tour Golf III (1994) \| PGA European Tour (1994) \| PGA Tour Golf II (1995) \| PGA Tour 96 (1995) \| PGA Tour 97 (1996)
Ice Hockey
NHL Hockey (Mega Drive) (1991) \| NHLPA Hockey '93 (1992) \| NHL Hockey '94 (1993) \| Elitserien 95 (1994) \| Mutant League Hockey (1994) \| NHL 95 (1994) \| NHLPA Hockey (1994) \| Elitserien 96 (1995) \| NHL 96 (1995) \| NHL Hockey (Game Gear) (1995) \| NHL 97 (Mega Drive) (1996) \| NHL 97 (Saturn) (1996) \| NHL 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) \| NHL 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Racing
Mario Andretti Racing (1994) \| Andretti Racing (1996) \| NASCAR 98 (1997)
Rugby
Rugby World Cup 1995 (1994) \| Australian Rugby League (1995)
Soccer
FIFA International Soccer (8-bit) (1993) \| FIFA International Soccer: Championship Edition (1994) \| FIFA Soccer 95 (1994) \| FIFA Soccer 96 (Mega Drive) (32X \| Saturn \| Game Gear) (1995) \| FIFA Soccer 97 (Gold Edition) (1996) \| FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) \| FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Misc.
EA Sports Double Header (1992) \| IMG International Tour Tennis (1994) \| Toughman Contest (1994)