Zico Soccer
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| Zico Soccer | |
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| Developer(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts Victor |
| Composer(s) | Akira Takemoto |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom |
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| Genre(s) | Traditional soccer simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Zico Soccer (ジーコ サッカー)[1] from Electronic Arts is a Super Famicom football management video game that allows players to become the head coach of an international football team; it was named after the Brazilian midfielder Zico, who at the time was playing for Japanese team Kashima Antlers. The game is mostly in the Japanese language although some words are in the English language.
Gameplay[edit]
There is an exhibition mode, training mode, and two different kinds of cup (tournament) modes.[2]
The game starts with a coin toss and the winner chooses to have possession of the football or to choose what side of the field to defend. No club play is possible with national leagues; there are only international teams (except for Kashima Antlers). However, England is excluded along with most other FIFA member nations. Instead of directly controlling the players, the manager/player must choose who must pass the ball to which player, where to shoot the football, where to move the players on the board, and how they should shoot the football.
Evaluation[edit]
Perhaps because the hurdles were too high for beginners and the game's half-hearted use of real names was not well received, sales of this title were poor. For this reason, it is infamous as a “typical throwaway title from the late era of Super Nintendo Entertainment System” than for the content of the game itself. One store reported that “new copies were piled up on the wagon for 10 yen.[3][4]
Magazine "GameLab"(ゲームラボ) often referred this game as "Dirt Cheap ZICO(「激安ZICO」)"
Adult game developers would purchase a large number of the game for its cartridge casing and switch the main game to an unofficial game, notable for the use at the game "SM Chioukyou shi Hitomi(SM調教師瞳)" so they did not have to pay license fees to Nintendo, and offered freedom to artistic expression. Because of this, Used copies of "Zico Soccer" sold in Japan, may contamination with the aforementioned adult games inside the cartridges' data instead of actual game.[5]
See also[edit]
- Isto é Zico: Jiko no Kangaeru Soccer[6] (Sega Saturn Interactive movie endorsed by Zico)
References[edit]
- ^ "Japanese title". at super-famicom.jp.
- ^ "Basic game overview". Allgame. Archived from the original on 2020-02-06. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
spekusowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Game*Sparkリサーチ『もっとも安く購入したゲーム』結果発表（Game*Spark）
- ^ "【衝撃】180円のスーファミソフトを買ったら、中身から伝説のソフトが出てしまうｗｗｗｗｗｗ : はちま起稿". blog.esuteru.com. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ Isto é Zico: Zico no Kangaeru Soccer at GameFAQs
External links[edit]
- Video game articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia
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- Electronic Arts games
- Association football management video games
- Japan-exclusive video games
- Kashima Antlers
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
- Victor Entertainment games
- Video games developed in Japan
- Cultural depictions of Brazilian people
- Cultural depictions of association football players
- Video games based on real people