International Superstar Soccer

The game sold over 500,000 copies since its first week of release.

• Title — International Superstar Soccer • Developer — Konami • Publisher — Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka • Director — Yasuo Okuda • Programmer — Yasuo Okuda Eiji Nakagawa • Composer — Harumi Ueko Hideyuki Eto • Series — International Superstar Soccer • Genre — Football (Sports) • Modes — Single-player Multiplayer • Platforms — Super Nintendo Entertainment System

• Open Game: A simple friendly match, that can be played against the CPU, another player, or just watched as the CPU controls both teams. • International Cup: A mode that emulates the FIFA World Cup, (which had qualifying round. where teams are distributed in six groups of four that year), teams each. The best 16 in this stage qualify to the knockout stage until the champion is known. • World Series: A league competition where all teams play against each other in a round-robin system. • Training: A series of challenges in different respects (dribbling, passing, shooting to the goal, defending and corner kick taking, in order), where the player must complete these challenges successfully under the established time, with the goal to sharpening the player's abilities. • Scenario: Enables the player to select one among nine matches running their courses, in order to achieve victory before time runs out (all matches start during the second half, and the player's team may be losing or tied). A draw results in failure. • Penalty Kick: A simple penalty kick match. Each team takes five shots alternately and, if there is no winner after these shots, they go into a sudden death round. The game uses a password system in order to save and load International Cup and World Series Euro Cup matches.

Due to lack of licenses of FIFA, Konami created fictional names to represent real players. One of them was Allejo, modeled after Bebeto and considered by some gamers and meme-makers, especially those from Brazil, as the "greatest footballer never to exist".