International Superstar Soccer

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International Superstar Soccer
developer Konami
Publisher Konami
First title International Superstar Soccer (1994)
Last title International Superstar Soccer 3 (2003)
Platform (s) Mega Drive , NES , SNES , Nintendo 64 , PlayStation , GameCube , Windows
Genre (s) Sports simulation

International Superstar Soccer (ISS) is the name of a football - video game series from Japanese company Konami . The games have been released for various game consoles. The series is known in Japan as Jikkyō World Soccer .

history

The first game, Konami Hyper Soccer , was released for the NES in late 1991 and was Konami's first soccer game for that platform. Although it is not in principle a game from the ISS series, the success of this game was sufficient to convince Konami to develop International Superstar Soccer (published in Japan under the name Perfect Eleven ) for the Super Nintendo and release it in 1994. An improved version, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe (in Japan: Fighting Eleven ), was also released a year later for the Super Nintendo, in 1996 for the Sega Mega Drive and in 1997 in a slightly revised and expanded version for the Playstation where it then there was also a full audio commentary.

These 16-bit video games outperformed many similar games, including FIFA International Soccer . For example, ISS was the first soccer video game to feature shirt numbers on players' shirts . In addition, it was the first time that the players looked "grown up".

In 1996 Konami released the first part of the Winning Eleven series (internationally known as Goal Storm ) for the PlayStation and in 1997 ISS 64 (known in Japan as Perfect Striker ) for the Nintendo 64 .

Various titles appeared in 1997 and 1998, including the second and third part of the Winning Eleven series (known outside of Japan as ISS Pro and ISS Pro 98 ), but the first major European game since ISS Deluxe was International Superstar Soccer 98 for the Nintendo 64, which was quite successful commercially.

At the beginning of the new century, the titles in the Winning Eleven series were significantly better than the ISS titles. In 2000 ISS Pro Evolution was released. The last title in the series for the Nintendo 64 was ISS 2000 (Japan: Perfect Striker 2 ), and when ISS Pro Evolution 2 was released in 2001 , followed by the first part of the Pro Evolution Soccer series ( Winning Eleven 5 ), it was no more plenty of space for ISS. Still, three ISS titles were released. The last one, ISS 3 (2003), was the first game a PC version was released. There are also three Game Boy Advance versions based on ISS Deluxe , among other things .

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