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Super Shot Soccer
''Super Shot Soccer'', known in Japan as , is a 2002 soccer simulation video game, which was developed and published by Tecmo for the PlayStation. It is Tecmo's second and last soccer game released for the PlayStation, after ''J-League Soccer: Jikkyō Survival League''. Gameplay Released at the height of the 2002 FIFA World Cup and late in the PlayStation's life, the game features 32 national teams who have qualified for the 2002 World Cup with ''Captain Tsubasa''-alike or superhuman soccer players that have at least two special powers, ranging from special passes to protective abilities to a boost in speed to auxiliary skills. In addition to the 32 qualified teams, the game also features teams that should have won a place at the final tournament but failed to in real life, such as FR Yugoslavia and the Netherlands, as well as a team representing Hong Kong consisting of the cast of ''Shaolin Soccer''. These teams are not available at the beginning. The player also has a few typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tecmo
was a Japanese video game company founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in the Kudankita district of Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Prior to 1986, Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain Tsubasa'', ''Dead or Alive (series), Dead or Alive'', ''Deception (video game series), Deception'', ''Fatal Frame'', ''Gallop Racer'', ''Monster Rancher (series), Monster Rancher'', ''Ninja Gaiden'', ''Rygar (arcade game), Rygar'', ''Star Force'' and ''Tecmo Bowl'' video game series. When it was still called Tehkan, the company released arcade games such as ''Bomb Jack'', ''Gridiron Fight'' and ''Tehkan World Cup''. In 2009, Tecmo merged with Koei to form the holding company Koei Tecmo, Tecmo Koei Holdings and was operated as a subsidiary until April 2010 when Tecmo was dissolved. Its brand continued to be used until 2016. Its video game franchises are now owned and published by Koei Tecmo Games. History The company was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaolin Soccer
''Shaolin Soccer'' ( Chinese: ) is a 2001 Hong Kong sports comedy film directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The film revolves around a former Shaolin monk who reunites his five brothers,"Brothers" here does not mean biological brothers, but "master-brothers", aka fellow disciples in martial arts under the same master. Therefore the "biggest brother" is the first one to be adopted by his mentor (the " master-father"), not necessarily the oldest one. years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman martial arts skills to play soccer and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses. Over the years the film has grown as a cult film. Plot "Golden Leg" Fung, a Hong Kong soccer star, beats and berates his teammate Hung when the latter offers him a cheque to lose the game, claiming to be the middleman. But Fung takes the cheque in the end and loses the game. Angry spectators beat him and break his leg. Twenty years later, Fung walks with a limp and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandom (website)
Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Inc. and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co. Fandom uses MediaWiki, the same open-source wiki software used by Wikipedia. Unlike the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, Fandom, Inc. operates as a for-profit company and derives its income from advertising and sold content, publishing most user-provided text under copyleft licenses. The company also runs the associated Fandom editorial project, offering pop-culture and gaming news. Fandom wikis are hosted under the domain ''fandom.com'', which has become one of the top 50 most visited websites in the world, rapidly rising in popularity beginning in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go This Way
''Go This Way'' is the second full-length album by punk rock band Bomb Factory. It was released in January 2002 on Monstar Records/Hell Hornet Records, and contains 15 songs. Track 8 appears on Tecmo's '' Super Shot Soccer'' soundtrack for PlayStation is a video gaming brand owned and produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), a division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. Its flagship products consists of a series of home video game consoles produced under the brand; it also consists ....Answers.com Article on Super Shot Soccer. Track listing References External links Bomb Factory's official website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bomb Factory (band)
Bomb Factory () is a band from Tokyo, Japan with styles influenced by 1970s and '80s hardcore punk, hard rock, and heavy metal music. Although their mother tongue is Japanese, almost all the music they have produced since 1997 has English song titles and lyrics. History Brothers Jun-ya and Kazuya grew up in Yamagata and later relocated to Tokyo, where they met Joe and Shira and established their band in 1991.Metropolis Magazine an English magazine in Japan. In 1999, they began the event ''High Blood Pressure'' in which they and other Japanese rock bands showcase in. They have staged several of these events and still continue it today. the official fan site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bomb Factory (album)
''Bomb Factory'' is the self-titled second EP by punk rock band Bomb Factory. It was released in November 1999 on Monstar Records/Hell Hornet Records, and contains seven songs. Tracks 1 and 7 were featured on the video game ''Dead or Alive 2 is a 1999 fighting game developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo for arcades. Initially only released in Japan, it was later released worldwide and was ported to the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 home systems in 2000. It is the second m ...'' while track 2 was used in a promotional ad for the game. An English version of track 5 was made for the updated game '' DOA2: Hardcore''. Track listing #"Exciter" – 3:31 #"Free Chain" – 3:44 #"Up Side Down" – 3:00 #"Memory" – 5:09 #"How Do You Feel" – 4:04 #"Dive" – 4:02 (2002 Tecmo's game '' Super Shot Soccer'' soundtrack) #"Deadly Silence Beach" – 3:00 External linksBomb Factory's official website 1999 EPs Bomb Factory (band) albums {{japan-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Chilavert
José Luis Félix Chilavert González (; born 27 July 1965) is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Sportivo Luqueño, Guaraní, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Real Zaragoza, Vélez Sarsfield, RC Strasbourg, Peñarol and the Paraguay national team. Chilavert won 12 club titles, including the 1994 Copa Libertadores and the 1994 Intercontinental Cup, while playing for Vélez Sarsfield, and is a three-time IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award winner. A fast and agile shot-stopper, known for his leadership, strong personality, and goalkeeping ability, he was regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world in his prime; outside of his goalkeeping position, Chilavert was also known for his outfield skills and ability as a free kick specialist, and often took penalties. He scored 67 goals in his professional career, many of them crucial, including eight in international matches. Four of his international goals were scored during Paraguay's qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraguay National Football Team
The Paraguay national football team (), nicknamed ''La Albirroja,'' represents Paraguay in men's international Association football, football competitions, and are controlled by the Paraguayan Football Association, Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (). Paraguay is a member of CONMEBOL. The Albirroja has qualified for eight FIFA World Cup competitions (1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930, 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950, 1958 FIFA World Cup, 1958, 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986, 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998, 2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002, 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010), with their best performance coming in 2010 when they reached the quarter-finals. A regular participant at the Copa América, Paraguay have been crowned champions of the competition on two occasions (in 1953 South American Championship, 1953 and 1979 Copa América, 1979). Paraguay's highest FIFA World Rankings was 8th (March 2001) and their lowest was 103 (May 1995). Paraguay was awarded second place with FIFA World Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saudi Arabia National Football Team
The Saudi Arabia national football team (SAFF) () represents Saudi Arabia in men's international Association football, football. They are known as ''Al-Suqour Al-Arabiyyah'' (Arabian Falcons) and sometimes ''Al-Suqour Al-Khodhur'' (The Green Falcons), a reference to their traditional colours of green and white, and represent both FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Considered one of Asia's most successful national teams, Saudi Arabia have won the AFC Asian Cup three times (1984, 1988 and 1996), reached a joint record six Asian Cup finals and have qualified for the FIFA World Cup on seven occasions since debuting at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994 tournament. Saudi Arabia are the first Asian team to reach the final of a senior FIFA competition at the 1992 King Fahd Cup, which would eventually become the FIFA Confederations Cup. Only Australia men's national soccer team, Australia and Japan national football team, Japan managed to repeat this feat in 1997 FIFA Confedera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statue Of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''; ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of French Third Republic, France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of a classically draped woman, likely inspired by the Roman Liberty (personification), goddess of liberty, Libertas. In a contrapposto pose, she holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a ''tabula ansata'' inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776, in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. With her left foot she steps on a broken chain and shackle, commemorating the End of slavery in the United States, national abolition of slavery following the American Civil War. After its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Men's National Soccer Team
The United States men's national soccer team (USMNT), officially recognized as USA by FIFA, represents the United States in men's international Association football, soccer. The team is governed by the United States Soccer Federation, which is a member of FIFA since 1914 and was a founding member of CONCACAF since 1961. It was also affiliated with North American Football Confederation, NAFC, which was a predecessor confederation of CONCACAF and the governing soccer body in North America from 1946 to 1961. The U.S. has appeared in eleven FIFA World Cups, including the first in 1930 FIFA World Cup, 1930, where they reached the semifinals; their third-place finish, which was later awarded through overall tournament records, is the best result by a team from outside UEFA and CONMEBOL. They returned in 1934 FIFA World Cup, 1934 and 1950 FIFA World Cup, 1950, defeating England national football team, England United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup), 1–0 in the latter, but did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
