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Players3 ratings
Player reviews
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Steam Deck
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Runs on
Windows
Price
US$11.99

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1991 · Association football · Sports

Super Kick-Off

Timed Sega exclusive

Super Kick Off is a football game for the Sega Mega Drive, Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear, released exclusively in Europe and Brazil. It is considered by many to be the watered-down version of Kick Off 2, previously released for the Commodore Amiga (and ported to the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and Commodore 64). Kick Off 2 was originally programmed by Dino Dini for Anco Games, with the console adaptions being handled by Tiertex.

Released
1 February 1991
Platforms
SNESSega GenesisGame GearWindowsGame BoySega Master System/Mark III
Genres
Association footballSports
Developers
—
Publishers
ImagineerTec Toy
Modes
Single-player
Languages
English

About

The Kick Off franchise is a series of football simulation video games created by Dino Dini. Kick Off was published by Anil Gupta's publishing house Anco Software for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. First released in 1989, Kick Off was well-received and won awards.

After the release of Kick Off several sequels were released. Player Manager was released in 1990. The game was the first game to combine a management environment (including tactics, league play, transfers, and detailed player attributes) with a football game engine (based on that of Kick Off). Kick Off 2 was released in 1990 as a sequel to Kick Off. The game introduced a number of new features as well as several small alterations.

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Media

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

With Kick Off the ball did not stick to the player's feet but instead was realistically kicked ahead from the players. This added a degree of difficulty and skill requirement at the same time. Other attributes, such as action replays, players with different characteristics, different tactics, fouls, yellow cards, red cards, injuries, injury time and various referees with different moods are also featured.

Development

Kick Off was released in 1989. Kick Off was first developed for the Atari ST and then ported to the Amiga. Several expansion disks were released for Kick Off 2. In 1992, Dino Dini left Anco and signed a contract for Virgin Games, which released Goal!

in 1993. Anco released Kick Off 3 in 1994. The game used a side view instead of a top-down view and bore little resemblance to Kick Off 2 apart from the name. Anco Software published the first versions of Kick Off for the Amiga and Atari ST.

Reception

ST Action – Highest accolade they could give.

Amiga User Int – "Best computer game ever" 97%

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Game Gear1 February 1991Europe
Game Boy31 December 1991Europe
Sega Genesis31 December 1992Europe · Brazil 4 June 1993
SNES31 December 1992Europe
Windows22 November 2022Worldwide
Sega Master System/Mark IIIUnreleased

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