FIFA Soccer 96

FIFA Soccer 96
North American Saturn cover art featuring Notts County's Andy Legg and Brescia Calcio's Ioan Sabău
DeveloperExtended Play Productions
PublishersEA Sports
Game Boy, Game Gear
Black Pearl Software
ComposersRobert Bailey
Graeme Coleman
SeriesFIFA
EngineVirtual Stadium
PlatformsMega Drive/Genesis, Super NES, PlayStation, Game Boy, Sega Saturn, 32X, Game Gear, MS-DOS
Release
10 November 1995
  • Mega Drive/Genesis, Super NES
    • EU: 10 November 1995
    • NA: November 1995
    PlayStation
    • NA: 22 November 1995
    • EU: 1995
    32X
    • EU: November 1995
    Game Boy
    • NA: December 1995
    • EU: 1996
    Saturn
    • NA/EU: December 1995
    MS-DOS
    Game Gear
GenreSports (association football)
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

FIFA Soccer 96 (also known as FIFA 96: Virtual Soccer Stadium) is a 1995 football video game developed by Extended Play Productions and released by EA Sports for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, 32X, Game Gear, PlayStation, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and MS-DOS-compatible operating systems. It is the third entry in the FIFA series, its tagline being "Next Generation Soccer". It was the first in the series to feature real-time 3D graphics on the Saturn, PlayStation, 32X, and DOS versions, using technology called "Virtual Stadium". The SNES and Mega Drive/Genesis editions used the FIFA 95 engine. It is also the first in the series to use real player names and positions, with ranking, transfer and team customisation tools.