FIFA Soccer 96

FIFA Soccer 96
North American Saturn cover art featuring Notts County's Andy Legg and Brescia Calcio's Ioan Sabău
Developer(s)Extended Play Productions
Probe Entertainment (SNES, Game Boy, Game Gear, 32X, Saturn)
Publisher(s)EA Sports
Black Pearl Software (Game Boy, Game Gear)
Composer(s)Robert Bailey
Graeme Coleman
SeriesFIFA
Platform(s)MS-DOS, 32X, Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Gear, PlayStation, Saturn
ReleaseMega Drive/Genesis
32X
  • EU: November 1995
MS-DOS
Saturn
  • NA: December 1995[3]
  • EU: December 1995
PlayStation
Game Boy
  • NA: December 1995
  • EU: 1996
Game Gear
SNES
  • NA: November 1995
  • EU: 23 November 1995
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

FIFA Soccer 96 (also known as FIFA 96: Virtual Soccer Stadium) is a football video game developed by Extended Play Productions and released by Electronic Arts in 1995. It was released for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega 32X, Game Gear, PlayStation, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and MS-DOS compatible operating systems.

FIFA 96 is the third entry in the FIFA series, its tagline being "Next Generation Soccer". It was the first in the series to feature real-time 3D graphics on the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, 32X, and DOS versions, using technology called "Virtual Stadium". The SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis editions used the FIFA 95 engine. It is also the first in the series to use real player names and positions, with ranking, transfer and team customisation tools.

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