Kick Off 3: European Challenge

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Kick Off 3: European Challenge
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: VIC Tokai
Developer:
Sound driver: UniSound v1.1 (Ash Hogg)
Genre: Sports

















Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
EU 		T-23086-50
Sega Mega Drive
UK 		£44.9544.95[2]

Kick Off 3: European Challenge is a football game developed by Steve Screech for Anco Games as a sequel to Kick Off 2 (which made it to the Sega Mega Drive in the altered form of Super Kick Off). VIC Tokai published a version for the Mega Drive in 1994.

Gameplay

There are roughly 2,000 frames of player animations in Kick Off 3[3].

History

Development

Unlike its predecessors, Kick Off 3 had no involvement from lead programmer Dino Dini, and thus plays very differently to other games in the series, having a "horizontal" pitch as opposed to a "vertical" one. Due to these radical changes, the game was met with controversy upon release. Dino Dini released his own football game around the same time for the Amiga titled Goal!, which made its way onto the Mega Drive as Dino Dini's Soccer.

The team sought the advice of then Newcastle United manager Kevin Keegan to determine where players should stand during free and corner kicks[4].

Magazine articles

Main article: Kick Off 3: European Challenge/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Sega Magazine (UK) #11: "November 1994" (1994-10-15)
also published in:
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
90 №151, p59[6]
71 №7, p15
81 №27, p42/43
60 №49, p118
44 №40, p51
Sega Mega Drive
 69
Based on
5 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
30
[7]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
90
[6]
Digitiser (UK) PAL
81
[8]
Gamer (GR)
83
[9]
Games World: The Magazine (UK) PAL
71
[10]
Hobby Consolas (ES)
85
[11]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
73
[12]
Mega (UK) PAL
81
[13]
Mega Force (FR) PAL
77
[14]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
63
[15]
Megazin (SI)
41
[16]
Player One (FR)
60
[17]
Play Time (DE) PAL
68
[18]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
44
[19]
Todo Sega (ES)
73
[20]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
44
[21]
Sega Mega Drive
 67
Based on
16 reviews

Kick Off 3: European Challenge

Mega Drive, EU
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Cover
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Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 bc37401a
MD5 640b900fc064c6962dc6160b8a033bf8
SHA-1 e449cfd4f9d59cf28b4842d465022a399964d0d6
1MB 1994-09 Cartridge (EU)

References

  1. ↑ File:CVG UK 152.pdf, page 15
  2. ↑ File:SegaMagazine UK 11.pdf, page 21
  3. ↑ File:MeanMachinesSega18UK.pdf, page 105
  4. ↑ File:MeanMachinesSega18UK.pdf, page 104
  5. ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-10-28), page 83
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 File:CVG UK 151.pdf, page 59 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 151.pdf_p59" defined multiple times with different content
  7. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 155
  8. ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1994-11-04)
  9. ↑ Gamer, "Fevrouários 1995" (GR; 1995-xx-xx), page 1
  10. ↑ Games World: The Magazine, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-11-xx), page 15
  11. ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Marzo 1995" (ES; 1995-xx-xx), page 82
  12. ↑ MAN!AC, "02/95" (DE; 1995-01-11), page 59
  13. ↑ Mega, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-30), page 42
  14. ↑ Mega Force, "Janvier 1995" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 63
  15. ↑ Mega Fun, "01/95" (DE; 1994-12-21), page 86
  16. ↑ Megazin, "Letnik 2, Številka 12, Avgust 1994" (SI; 1994-xx-xx), page 15
  17. ↑ Player One, "Janvier 1995" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 118
  18. ↑ Play Time, "2/95" (DE; 1995-01-04), page 107
  19. ↑ Sega Pro, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-01), page 51
  20. ↑ Todo Sega, "Febrero 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 50
  21. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 100
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