Name: Minisoccer - ミニサッカー
Year: 1967, imported by セガ (Sega) in 1968
Company: AMF International
Minisoccer is an electromechanical game stylistically inspired by foosball. we are writing about it because Sega shared their flyer for it as part of their company history on their website.
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| Sega's flyer for Minisoccer, taken from their corporate history website |
The Sega website puts that year as 1968, but the game was released in 1967, so I presume Sega began selling it and 68.
Minisoccer appears in the 1972 machine directory, which was printed in 1971.
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| 1972 machine directory entry |
The earliest press clipping about many soccer is from 1967:
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| Cash Box 1967-11-11 |
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| Minisoccer flyer |
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| Cash Box 1968-01-20 |
Of note, SEGASA produced Mini-Futbol. According to one website, this was released in 1968 but I have not found any public evidence of the year.
This game appears to be the same as many soccer except with the controls now at the top, not at the side.
