Adidas Championship Football

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Adidas Championship Football
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Developer(s) Ocean Software
Publisher(s) Ocean Software
Platform(s) Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga
Release 1990
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Adidas Championship Football is a soccer video game developed by Ocean Software in 1990. [1] It was released for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Amiga. The Amiga version is also known as Adidas Soccer. [2]

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Reception

The Spectrum version of the game went to #2 in the UK sales charts, behind Shadow Warriors . [4]

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References

  1. Game entry Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at lemon64.com
  2. Simmons, Alex; Bowden, Michelle (November 1990). "Review - Adidas Soccer". Amiga Action (14): 76.
  3. Game review, Sinclair User magazine, EMAP, issue 101, July 1990, page 10
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2000-12-06. Retrieved 2014-06-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)