Olympic Soccer
While the soccer tournament is often downplayed not only inside the Olympic movement, but also by the soccer-following community, in 1996, by the occasion of the Games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, US Gold…
Olympic Soccer is a sport developed by Silicon Dreams Studios, released 5 March 1996 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS.
What Olympic Soccer is
Olympic Soccer is a sport game developed by Silicon Dreams Studios and released in 1996. It was published by Coconuts Japan. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
While the soccer tournament is often downplayed not only inside the Olympic movement, but also by the soccer-following community, in 1996, by the occasion of the Games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, US Gold decided to release a game representing the tournament.
How it plays
Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Olympic Soccer holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Olympic Soccer launched on 5 March 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Resident Evil and Sid Meier's Civilization II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Resident Evil, Sid Meier's Civilization II.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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