J.League Soccer Prime Goal
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is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...

 soccer video game that allows players to play as soccer players in the J. League
J. League
The or is the top division of and is the top professional association football league in Japan. It is one of the most successful leagues in Asian club football and the only league given top class 'A' ranking by the AFC. Currently, J. League Division 1 is the first level of the Japanese...

. The original price of the game was ¥9,800 in Japan (approximately $75 USD).

Gameplay

There is a variety of options (which are all in Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

). There is a side view perspective of the action similar to arcade
Video arcade
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 soccer games. Even the players' surname
Surname
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s are in Japanese. This game is a prequel to J.League Soccer Prime Goal 2
J.League Soccer Prime Goal 2
is a Japan-exclusive soccer video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.-Summary:The names of the players are in Japanese and the teams are based on these in the Japan Professional Football League. There is a side view for the action and players must determine their lineup before the...

and J.League Soccer Prime Goal 3
90 Minutes European Prime Goal
90 Minutes: European Prime Goal - known in Japan as - is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System soccer video game that was originally released in 1994.-Summary:...

. Each half can be set up for a duration of up to five minutes.

There is a "lifting game" included in the options mode that allows players to balance a soccer ball on his virtual body for points like in an arcade game. The names of the moves are in Japanese; making it unlikely for Westerners to comprehend their moves. The highest score ever achieved in this mode was 59780 points and it was captured on YouTube
YouTube
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 on September 6, 2007. Typing in "J.League Soccer Prime Goal" on Google
Google
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 will make the video appear on the search engine. Easy moves are worth ten points each while the most difficult moves are 200 points each.

There was a relatively elaborate television commercial for this game that appeared on Japanese television during the second quarter of 1993. It would show the Namco logo followed by the box art appearing out from underneath a soccer stadium full of players to the tune of Olé, Olé, Olé
Olé, Olé, Olé
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