Capcom Sports Club (Japan 970722, yellow case)

Capcom CPS-II cart. published 27 years ago:

Capcom Sports Club (c) 1997 Capcom Company, Limited.

Capcom Sports Club is a multi-event sports game for one or two players who can choose to play any one of three different sports games: Tennis (Smash Stars), Football (Kick Stars) and Basketball (Dunk Stars).

The game's look and feel is typical of Capcom's output of the time and is skewed heavily towards fast, cartoon-like arcade action.

Of the three games on offer, "Smash Stars" Tennis is by far the most accomplished and would easily stand up as an arcade machine in its own right.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "CP System II" hardware.
Green Board [Japan]

Players: Up to 2.
Control: 8-way joystick per player.
Buttons: 3 per player.

- TRIVIA -

Capcom Sports Club was released in July 1997 in Japan. It was known as the 24th CPS-II game.

Known export release:
"Capcom Sports Club [Blue Board]"
"Capcom Sports Club [Grey Board]"
"Capcom Sports Club [Orange Board]"

In the Smash Stars tennis game, the Chinese tennis player bares more than a passing resemblance to one of Capcom's most famous characters, 'Street Fighter's Chun Li, here known as 'Li-li'.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Select New Teams/Player : After 1997 credits have been entered into the machine, the title page changes by adding a girl with a dog on the left side of the screen. This also unlocks 3 new teams (one for each game) as follows...
Dunk Stars - Golden USA
Smash Stars - Melody Love
Kick Stars - All Stars

* Play against secret teams : To play against the secret teams (Smash Stars - Melody, Kick Stars - Star Team and Dunk Stars - Golden USA) you must reach 200.000 points before winning the finals.

- STAFF -

Planner : Yoshifumi Fukuda
Programmers : Yoshinobu Inada, Masahito Oh!Ya! (as 'Masahito Ohya'), Kazuhiko Komori
CG-Works : Eiji Kuratani, Naoki Fujisawa, Naoki Fukushima, Shinya Kitamura
Object Designers : Shinji Sakashita, Kazuo Yorikane, Koichi Kikutani, Masao Ueda, Motohiro Shigeyama, Tsunenori Shirahama, Tomohiko Ohsumi, Tadashi Noyama
Scroll designers : Kazumi Teramoto, Maeno Megumi, Hirokazu Yoneduka, Chie Nakayama, Yoichi Tanoue, Atsushi Kanno
Sound : Hideki Okugawa, Ryoji Yamamoto
Designers : Daigo Ikeno, Masae Okano, Satoshi Ukai, Shinchiro Komizu
Voice Actors : Tomoyuki Morikawa, Jin Yamanoi, Miyuki Yamamoto (Arts Vision)
Producer : Yoshimi Ohnishi
General Producer : Noritaka Funamizu