VR Soccer

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VR Soccer
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Interplay (US), Naxat Soft (JP)
Developer: Gremlin Interactive
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (1 track)
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1996-10-04 ¥5,8005,800 T-18706G US 1996-12-20 T-12517H
Non-Sega versions IBM PC Macintosh PlayStation Windows PC

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VR Soccer, known as Actua Soccer (アクチャーサッカー) in Japan, is a football game for the Sega Saturn. It was not released in Europe, who instead received Actua Soccer Club Edition.

In North America, the game was announced as VR Soccer '96, dropping the "'96" late in development. As a result of this, the game was advertised as VR Soccer '96 and still often refers to itself by this name

Gameplay

Teams

• Argentina
• Belgium
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• Cameroon
• China
• Colombia
• Czech Rep.
• Denmark
• Egypt
• England
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ghana
• Greece
• Holland
• Iceland
• Italy
• Ivory Coast
• Japan
• Mexico
• Morocco
• Nigeria
• N. Ireland
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Rep. Ireland
• Romania
• Russia
• Saudi Arab.
• Scotland
• Slovakia
• S. Korea
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Uruguay
• USA
• Wales
• Zambia

Northern Ireland competes under an unofficial flag, using the Nordic cross flag with a similar colour scheme to England's.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English (US)	VR Soccer	VR Soccer
Japanese	アクチャーサッカー	Actua Soccer

Production credits

For VR Sports

• Director of Sports Development: Matt Findley
• Producer: Chris Parker
• Line Producer: Jeff Barnhart
• VR Sports Logo Animation: Adam Rote
• 2D Art: Dave Finley
• Director of Quality Assurance: Chad Allison
• Assist. Director of QA: Colin Totman
• Lead Testers: Doug Avery
• Testers: Greg Baumeister, Kaycee Vardaman, Chris Keenen, Tony Martin

For Gremlin Interactive

• Game Design: Andy Findlay, Kevin Dudley, Ade Carless
• Programming: Andy Findlay, Laurent Noel, Richard Stevenson, Kevin Dudley
• Lead Artist: Wayne Laybourn
• Additional Artists: Oliver Murry, Matt Furniss, Martin Calpin, Les Spink
• FMV Video: Alan Coltan, David Lewis, Jim Tibutt
• Motion Capture Technology: Paul Hiley, Ben Wilson, Mick Sheehan, Tony Wills
• Commentary: Barry Davies
• Soccer Players: Chris Woods, Andy Sinton, Graham Hyde
• Team Data Research: Rob Millington
• Sound Technology: Human Machine Interface Ltd.
• Music and Sound Effects: Neil Biggin, Patrick Phelan
• Producer: Tony Casson
• Manual Design and Layout: Malchick Nostra
• Software Manager: Tim Heaton
• Product Director: James North-hearn
• Quality Assurance: Rob Millington, Lee Campbell, Sim Furniss, Tony Howe, Carl Bilby

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US manual

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Magazine articles

Main article: VR Soccer/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0904: "Vol. 9 No. 4 April 1996" (1996-03-19)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #81: "April 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
• GamePro (US) #93: "June 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
• Next Generation (US) #18: "June 1996" (1996-05-21)

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0904: "Vol. 9 No. 4 April 1996" (1996-03-19)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #81: "April 1996" (1996-xx-xx)
• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #82: "May 1996" (1996-xx-xx)

Print advert in Next Generation (US) #19: "July 1996" (1996-06-18)
also published in:

• Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #84: "July 1996" (1996-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 53 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 70 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 56 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 50 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 58 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 53

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VR Soccer

Saturn, JP
Cover
Disc Manual

Saturn, US
Cover
Disc Manual

Technical information

Main article: VR Soccer/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	180,603,024	1996-08-22	CD-ROM (JP)	T-18706G V1.100
✔	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	107,613,408		CD-ROM (US)	T-12517H V1.002