International Superstar Soccer
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International Superstar Soccer is the name of a series of Football (Soccer) videogames developed by Japanese company Konami, mostly by their Osaka branch, KCEO. It should not be confused with KCET's Pro Evolution Soccer series, which was originally developed for the Sony PlayStation, while ISS was mostly aimed for Nintendo 64. The Pro Evolution series was known in Japan as Winning Eleven, and it is now gaining worldwide release under that title.
Series
The series started with the NES platform, late in 1991 with Konami Hyper Soccer, Konami's first football game. Although technically not a game in the series, the success of the game was enough for Konami start developing Perfect Eleven for the Japanese SNES, released as International Superstar Soccer for the rest of the world, both in 1994. An improved version, Fighting Eleven (worldwide, International Superstar Soccer Deluxe) was released one year later, and saw a Mega Drive\Genesis version in 1996, the same year the first KCET title, Winning Eleven was developed for the PlayStation (Goal Storm internationally) and Perfect Striker made its debut on the Nintendo 64 (released worldwide in 1997 as ISS 64).
In 1997 and 1998 there were several titles released, including the second and third versions of Winning Eleven (which included a fully-licensed release for the 1998 World Cup), but the first major in Europe since ISS Deluxe was International Superstar Soccer 98 for the Nintendo 64. It was one of the best titles for the console, and one of the highest sold non-Nintendo titles.
By the turn of the century, KCET's Winning Eleven titles were improving considerably over KCEO's titles, and in 2000 ISS Pro Evolution was released worldwide. The last title for the Nintendo 64 was ISS 2000, based on Perfect Striker 2, and when ISS Pro Evolution 2 was released in 2001 and followed by the first Pro Evolution Soccer, there wasn't many room for the Jikkyou World Soccer series, although three ISS titles were released, the last (ISS 3, in 2003) for the first time was released for personal computers. There were also three Game Boy Advance versions, one of them based on ISS Deluxe.
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