Fifa soccer 97 game boy

Its FIFA's best in a video game, full or action and fun. The graphics are only as good as can be expected from the level of technology i. Its a bit difficult to follow the ball when you first play the game Definately a must-buy for anyone who loves soccer, especially world cup!!

Skip to main content. About this product. Make an offer:. Stock photo. Brand new: Lowest price The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable. Buy It Now. Add to cart. Make Offer. See details for delivery est. Sold by wingsfire Multiple players with current statistics from 12 international leagues are included. While you play, international soccer commentators John Motson, Des Lynam, and Andy Gray provide play-by-play and color commentary.

All of the players on the field are realistic as well. Cancel X. Would you recommend this Guide? Yes No Hide. Send Skip Hide. Message Sent. Another big difference from the other games present on the Game Boy is that the playing fields on FIFA '97 are immense: it can take a great deal of time to move the ball downfield, simply because it stretches for the length of several screens from goal to goal.

Further unlike those games, play is considerably less automated, and you will have to take active control of a player on the field at all times if you wish to make any decent headway. Goals are also considerably more difficult to score in the FIFA series present on the Game Boy than for the other, more arcadey-style games.

This usually borders on being hideously impossible to score. Other than that, basically all the regular football rules are present in FIFA '97, including having 10 players, penalties, yellow and red cards, and so forth, with the possible exception of offsides it might be there, but I did not ever get any offsides. Fouls can be toggled on and off in the options menu.

The game has the real names and logos of the country and club teams at the time, but does not have the names of the players themselves, instead resulting in generic names.

It can be ridiculously hard to make a kick when you want to make a pass, and vice versa. Even if you turn your back towards the net to face a teammate and hit either the A or B button, the game will still interpret this as a kick, and then on some occasions when you want to make a kick, it will instead make a pass. And even when you do make a pass, often the possessing player will just kick the ball in a nonsensical direction instead of anywhere near the teammate you are facing.

When you actually make a kick on net, do not try using the B button. While your kick is automatically a fast strike, it will, without fail, always send the ball straight into the goalkeeper's hands.

You will have better luck using the A button to kick, where you can at least actually change up the directions you kick. However, you need to press and hold the A button before releasing to get a strong kick - if you merely tap the A button, all you shall get is a limp kick which covers little distance.

To actually pass to another player, there are a couple of techniques you can do. Neither of these are especcially effective techniques unless the other teammate is close by. You can also press and hold the B button for a second or longer, then press the A button while the B button is still held down for a flat kick to your other teammate, and it actually travels in the direction you are facing.

This will always cause the ball carrier to lose the ball, but instead of successfully stealing it, sometimes it will just dribble out from your grasp and you must go grab it instead.

Dashing While on defense, you can press the B button to give the active player character a quick, temporary dash of speed. After a few seconds, you can repeat this feat. Note that if you move it too far, your kick will not land here, but it will go in the general direction of where you highlight the cursor. Teams These are the teams present in the game. While each team has a make-up of generically named players with unique stats, the teams also have their own stats list represented by bars on the team select team.

Mexico Scotland Italy, Brazil, Argentina, and the 'Tornados' team presumably a developers special team? Exhibition Play a single match between two teams of your choice, with the team you play as on the left side of the selection screen. Select your team to play as and you will be put into a randomly selected group of 4 teams, and play each team once.

The best two teams from group plus a few of the better third-place teams will advance to a round of 16, where it then moves into a single-loss elimination tournament. Playoffs Playoffs skips the initial qualifying round of the Tournament setting, moving straight to the round-of single-loss elimination bracket.