Mega Man's Soccer

Japanese cover and promo art.

Game Information Developer(s): Capcom Publisher(s): Capcom Producer(s): Tokuro Fujiwara Artist(s): Keiji Inafune Composers(s): Oka Tomi Noririn Platform(s): Super Nintendo Entertainment System Release date(s): February 17, 1994 March 25, 1994 Genre(s): Sports (Soccer) Mode(s): Single-player Multiplayer (up to two players) Media: 10-megabit ROM cartridge

Theme Music

Mega Man's Soccer, named Mega Man Soccer in the American box art, known in Japan as Rockman's Soccer (ロックマンズサッカー, Rokkumanzu Sakkā^?), is a soccer game released by Capcom for the SNES in 1994. This is the first game in the classic Mega Man series to appear on the SNES.

StoryEdit

A few months had passed since the battle with Dr. Cossack in Mega Man 4.^[1] One day, Mega Man, Roll, and Dr. Light are watching a game of soccer on TV, when suddenly, robots take over the field. Soccer fields all over the world were thrown into chaos! Familiar enemy robots restored by Dr. Wily were running out into the field and ruining soccer games. To deal with this emergency situation, Dr. Light modified Mega Man and sent him to make things right, saving soccer and the dreams of those who love the sport by playing soccer against Dr. Wily's robots.

Mega Man's Soccer doesn't have a ending and the player returns to the title screen after completing the game, but it contains an unused ending and credits sequence in the game.^[2][3] They are only accessible through a cheat device.

Game modesEdit

The game has four modes:

• Exhibition: Free play mode that allows the player to choose his team members and field.
• Capcom Championship: The story mode. Mega Man must defeat eight teams in any order, and after defeating all of them, he goes to the Wily Castle and faces Enker, Proto Man and Dr. Wily.
• Tournament: A tournament between eight teams. The winner continues to a tournament against the teams of Enker, Proto Man, and Dr. Wily.
• League: A league with eight teams.

Playable charactersEdit

Each Robot Master uses a special ability with the ball. Dr. Wily is only playable in Elec Man's and Dust Man's teams from League Mode.

Players		Special	Run	Kick	Tackle	Defense
	Mega Man (Rockman)	Rock Buster Shoot	40	62	96	128
	Proto Man (Blues)	Blues Buster Shoot	47	62	96	128
	Enker	Mirror Buster Shoot	44	62	96	128
	Dr. Wily	Wily Shoot	50	62	240	240
	Air Man	Tornado Shoot	38	62	160	96
	Bomb Man (Bomberman)	Bomb Shoot	40	62	96	128
	Bubble Man	Bubble Shoot	40	62	96	128
	Cut Man	Rolling Cutter Shoot	42	62	160	96
	Dust Man	Dust Shoot	36	64	96	176
	Elec Man	Elec Shoot	43	62	64	96
	Fire Man	Fire Shoot	42	62	128	112
	Flash Man	Flash Shoot	40	62	96	96
	Gemini Man	Gemini Shoot	48	62	96	96
	Ice Man	Ice Shoot	48	62	48	48
	Needle Man	Needle Shoot	36	64	128	128
	Pharaoh Man	Pharaoh Shoot	34	62	224	160
	Skull Man	Skull Shoot	40	62	96	128
	Snake Man	Snake Shoot	40	62	112	128
	Toad Man	Toad Shoot	40	62	96	128
	Top Man	Top Shoot	40	62	96	96
	Wood Man	Leaf Shoot	28	64	224	208

TeamsEdit

*One member from each team defeated by Mega Man in Capcom Championship joins his team, having a total of 10 reserve players in the last field.

GalleryEdit

North American box art.

Japanese box art.

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ScreenshotsEdit

Title screen

Field select screen from Exhibition mode.

Password screen

Tournament mode

Gameplay.

Penalty shoot-out between Fire Man's and Needle Man's teams.

Cut Man's team commemorating one victory in Tournament mode.

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TriviaEdit

• An early sketch from Rockman's Soccer shows that Guts Man was once planned for the game. He was replaced with Proto Man on the cover art. Heat Man was also planned to appear in the game.

• The Japanese version of this game is the only instance of Bomb Man being referred to as "Bomberman" within a game. Bomb Man's Japanese name is literally translated as "Bomberman", though he is still commonly referred to as "Bomb Man" in Japan.

• This game marks the only time that a Mega Man Killer (Enker) would appear as a playable character, and the only time one would appear as a character outside of the Game Boy series until Mega Man 10. Enker would also appear as a card in Rockboard, and all Mega Man Killers appear as Data CDs in Mega Man & Bass.
• The stage select screen has similar music to the stage select screen in Mega Man 5. The screen after selecting a stage where it shows the robot master also has similar music to the same type of screen in Mega Man 5.

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