Net Yaroze Month: Total Soccer – Yaroze

In Net Yaroze Month, we are playing every Net Yaroze game featured on the UK Official Playstation Magazine, and ranking them all in the order we liked them. You may have other opinions as to the ranking, which is awesome.

To learn more about Net Yaroze, read our introductory article here.

If you’ve played Kick Off or Sensible Soccer, then you will be familiar with how you play Total Soccer. It plays very similar to those two games, and you can adjust how high up the camera is, so you can get it looking more like Kick Off, or more like Sensi!

All the teams and players in the game have slight mis-spellings, so expect to see teams like Luvarpool and Minchaster Utd.

None of this distracts from the game though, which is almost as fun as Sensi on the Amiga when playing in two player mode.

The game was apparently converted from a previous Windows game written by Chapman.

Game: Total Soccer Yaroze
By: Charles Chapman
Genre: Soccer
Available on Euro Demos: 41, 42, 83, 86, 108

Legacy​

Chapman went on to make more versions of Total Soccer to Windows, and a version for the Game Boy Color. Later he worked on various handheld and mobile versions of FIFA, and now is the owner of First Touch games who specialise in soccer games, and are most known for mobile game, Score Hero.

Net Yaroze Month rankings:​

It might be due to a love of Sensible Soccer, but I loved Total Soccer Yaroze. In at No. 3 you go…

  1. Blitter Boy
  2. Rocks n Gems
  3. Total Soccer Yaroze
  4. Terra Incognita
  5. Super Bub Contest
  6. Robot Ron
  7. Decaying Orbit
  8. Psychon
  9. INVS
  10. Haunted Maze
  11. Roller
  12. Gravitation
  13. Squeak
  14. Adventure Game
  15. Katapila
  16. Pssst!
  17. Game Involving Triangles
  18. Yarozians
  19. Tanx
  20. PingPing
  21. Opera of Destruction
  22. Video Poker Simulator
  23. Shroud
  24. Between the Eyes
  25. Bouncer 2
  26. Yaroze Rally
  27. Sphere
  28. Blockz
  29. Surf Game

Still to play:

  • Time Slip
  • Sam the Boulderman
  • Technical Demo
  • Pushy IIb
  • Pandora’s Box
  • Down
  • Snowball Fight
  • Arena
  • A Dog Tale
  • Mah Jongg
  • Samsaric Asymptotes
  • Hover Car Racing
  • Clone

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