Dino Dini's Soccer

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Dino Dini's Soccer
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Developer: Dini and Dini Productions
Sound driver: Krisalis sound driver
Peripherals supported: Team Player
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-4 (simultaneous) 1-24 (alternating)
Official in-game languages: English Deutsch Français
Release Date RRP Code EU 1994-12 T-70276-50 PT 199x UK 1994-12 £49.9949.99 T-70276-50

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Dino Dini's Soccer is a top-down football game for the Sega Mega Drive programmed by Dino Dini, the man behind the first two Kick Off games by Anco Games. It was only released in Europe.

Dino Dini's Soccer is a retooled version of an earlier Amiga game, Goal!, sporting superior graphics and support for four players via Sega's Team Player peripheral. Though this has not been confirmed, it has been suggested that during development Dino Dini's Soccer was set to be a straight port of Goal! with no extra features (this being the situation with the SNES version, which despite its name, was not personally handled by Dino Dini like this Mega Drive release). An unconfirmed working title appears to have been Dino Dini's Goal!.

As a spiritual sequel to Kick Off 2 (or Super Kick Off, as it appeared on the Mega Drive), Dino Dini's Soccer offers similar gameplay but with the addition of smarter AI, multiple cameras and improved presentation.

Gameplay

Teams

Unlike the Kick Off games, Dino Dini's Soccer only features national teams.

• Albania
• Algeria
• Antilles
• Argentina
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Cyprus
• Denmark
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• England
• Equador
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Faeroe Islands
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Holland
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Indonesia
• Iraq
• Israel
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Latvia
• Liberia
• Libya
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Kenya
• Kuwait
• Malta
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Milawi
• Morroco
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Northern Ireland
• North Korea
• Norway
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Poland
• Portugal
• Qatar
• RCS
• Rep. of Ireland
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Saudi Arabia
• Scotland
• Sierra Leone
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Spain
• Sudan
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Trinidad
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Uruguay
• U.A.E.
• U.S.A.
• Venezuela
• Wales
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

"RCS" represents Czechoslovakia, which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia a year before the game's release.

Production credits

• Concept, Design and Code by: Dino Dini
• Conversion by: Dino Dini
• Produced by: Pam Dini
• Produced for Virgin by: Michael Merren
• Graphics by: Design Systems
• Theme Tune by: Allister Brimble
• Audio by: Krisalis Software Ltd
• Music Driver by: S.Hollingworth
• Other Music and FM SFX by: Matt Furniss
• Additional Samples by: Dino Dini
• Team Data by: Michael Merren
• Playtesters: Dino Dini, Pam Dini, Michael Merren, Michael Wenn, Tony Byus, Alon Malka, Carl Perrin
• Published by: Virgin I.E.

A Dini and Dini Production

Copyright (C) Dino Dini 1993-1994

All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Dedicated to Our Daughter Chance

Magazine articles

Main article: Dino Dini's Soccer/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #157: "December 1994" (1994-11-15)

Print advert in Sega Power (UK) #61: "December 1994" (1994-10-20)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 50 Computer & Video Games (UK) PAL 85 Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL 77 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 62 Mega Force (FR) PAL 86 Mega Fun (DE) 66 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 88 Player One (FR) 55 Play Time (DE) PAL 60 Sega Magazin (DE) PAL 87 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 90 Sega Pro (UK) PAL 91 Sega Opisaniy i sekretov (RU) 64 Super Juegos (ES) 83 Todo Sega (ES) 90 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 84

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Dino Dini's Soccer

Mega Drive, EU
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Cart Manual PCB

Mega Drive, PT

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 4608f53a MD5 6a492e2983b2bc306eec905411ee24a8 SHA-1 49d4a654dd2f393e43a363ed171e73cd4c8ff4f4	1MB	1994-07-25	Cartridge (EU)