World Championship Soccer

"Italia 1990" redirects here. For the video game released for Amiga and Atari ST, see Italia 1990 (Codemasters). For the real-life tournament, see 1990 FIFA World Cup.
World Championship Soccer
Developer(s)Sega
Publisher(s)Sega
Platform(s)Arcade, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Mega Drive/Genesis, ZX Spectrum
Release
  • NA: September 1989
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Practice Tournament Two Player

World Championship Soccer (ワールドカップサッカー) is a soccer game running on Sega's Mega-Tech[1] arcade cabinet system and was released as one of the first games for the Sega Genesis system in North America in September 1989.[2]

The European Mega Drive release, World Cup Italia '90, was published jointly with Olivetti and Virgin Mastertronic and was an officially licensed franchise game of the 1990 FIFA World Cup featuring the official logo and mascot. After the World Cup licence had expired the game was renamed to Sega Soccer on the Mega 6 compilation cartridge on the Mega Drive removing the Virgin Mastertronic credit. A different game was also released as World Cup Italia '90 for the Master System in 1991 but this is not connected to World Championship Soccer.

In 1990 the game was ported by Elite Systems for DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.[3]

  1. ^ "Mega-Tech System". SegaRetro. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Free Trademark Search | Protect Business Name | Incorporate Your Business | Trademarkia". Archived from the original on 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
  3. ^ World Championship Soccer – MobyGames