Soccer of the World

It's soccer...on a worldwide journey. You'll travel through Brazil, South Korea, and of course, Donkey Kong Country (through its reused Hummer Team music).

Unused Graphics#

An unused logo for "ARBA"...which is quite clearly some sort of rebrand of ABAB Soft, a company credited in several late-stage Hummer Team titles (such as War). The font and logo style directly matches the ABAB Soft logo seen in such games.

A logo reading "Soft" (with the weirdest formatted "S" known to man), potentially connected to the ARBA logo.

Graphics for a 4-in-1 menu, presumably the original multicart that Soccer of the World was released on. The other three games - "Dino Runner", "Dance Queen", and "Naughty Vole" - are seemingly renamed versions of the games from the Hot Dance 3-in-1 multicart (Dragon Running, Dance Y2K, and War of Strike Mouse, respectively).

Revisional Differences#

In 2005, Waixing split the game into two separate games for the goalkeeping and kicking parts, Goal Keeper and Penalty Kick respectively. These releases were seemingly allowed by Hummer Team.¹ Both versions removed the player selection screen and the jingle that plays when a goal is scored, but added cheering. Goal Keeper added nothing in place, but Penalty Kick added a small "thud" sound.

Soccer of the World	Goal Keeper	Penalty Kick

Goal Keeper was in vanilla NES and at one point received a VT09 version, while Penalty Kick was made in VT03 from the start.

Penalty Kick also got a revision of its own. The color palette was overall made more saturated.

Revision 0	Revision 1

References#