Fever Pitch Soccer

Fever Pitch Soccer (Head-On Soccer)
North American cover art
Developer(s)	U.S. Gold
Publisher(s)	Atari Games (Atari Jaguar), U.S. Gold (Another)
Platform(s)	Genesis, Super NES, Atari Jaguar
Release date(s)	1995 (Genesis), 1995 December, (Atari Jaguar), 1995 (Super NES)
Genre(s)	Sports, Soccer (Football)
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer

Fever Pitch Soccer (in North America, Head-On Soccer) is a soccer video game developed by US Gold. It was released in 1995 for the Super NES, Genesis, and Atari Jaguar consoles. It is a slapstick game in which the player tends to have to lean towards "dirty" play, and special player abilities include the ability to dive in an attempt to win a free-kick or penalty. There are two gameplay modes; tournament and exhibition. A password is given out following the successful completion of each game in the tournament so that play can be resumed at a later point.

In Germany, the Super NES game was released under the title Mario Basler: Jetzt geht’s Los!.^[1]

Team Select

Algeria  Argentina  Australia  Austria  Belgium  Bolivia  Brazil  Bulgaria  Cameroon  Canada  Chile  China PR  Colombia  Costa Rica  Denmark  Ecuador  Egypt

Eire  England  France  Germany  Ghana  Holland  Honduras  Iran  Italy  Ivory Cst  Japan  Kuwait  Mali  Mexico  Morocco  Nigeria  Norway

Poland  Portugal  Romania  Russia  South Korea  Scotland  Saudi Arabia  Spain  Sweden   Switzerland  Tunisia  UAE  Uruguay  USA  Wales  Zambia  Zimbabwe

Reception

A critic for Next Generation scored the Super NES version three out of five stars, saying that the game has more strategy than the average soccer sim and is decently fun, especially when using a multitap.^[2] GamePro gave both the Genesis and Super NES versions positive reviews. They commented that the unrealistic gameplay makes it more fast-paced and potentially more fun than other soccer simulations, and were especially pleased with the exaggerated soccer moves which would not be possible in real life. They also remarked that the graphics and sounds of the Genesis version, while not as good as those of the Super NES version, were more than good enough.^[3] Their review of the later Jaguar version said that though it is a port of the Super NES version with no enhancements to make use of the next-generation hardware, "it's still fun."^[4]

References

1. Mario Basler: Jetzt geht’s Los! (cover art) at Giant Bomb
2. "Heads On [sic] Soccer". Next Generation. Imagine Media (10): 128. October 1995.
3. "Head-On Soccer Speeds past Slower 16-Bit Sims". GamePro. IDG (84): 76. September 1995.
4. "Fever Pitch Soccer". GamePro. IDG (91): 93. April 1996.

External links

• Fever Pitch Soccer at MobyGames