Hat Trick Hero S | Sega Saturn playthrough (JPN) | Real hardware
0Hattrick Hero S is a Sports game, developed and published by Taito Corporation, which was released in Japan in 1995. There is hardly any information about this on the internet and YouTube doesn't even have this game in its games library.
Hat Trick Hero S is a super charged arcade experience from this era. There seems to be limited data on this game and it appears that only the Japanese Saturn got a version. The previous games in the series managed releases on various formats and arcade. It reminds me very much of Football Champ and Super sidekicks. (I later found out that football champ is the PAL name for Hat Trick Hero I loved these games in the arcade back in the day. With their huge sprites and ability to foul and not give free kicks.
I didn’t find a sure-fire way to score a goal, which I always found on old footy games. This is a blessing and a fault, as I’m not sure if there is a way to score a direct goal since the goalie saves it every time. The only time I seemed to score was from rebounds from the keeper.
So really, the tactic is to shoot from anywhere and hope it comes back from the keeper and into the path of your other player.
This would be perfect in multiplayer though as someone who has more familiarity can’t just keep using the cheat goal to annihilate their opponent like so many Football games before.
Progress through the game allows you to unlock custom abilities like changing your shirt colour and even the name of your team which is strange because I started the cup as Argentina and ended up winning as the Twats.
The last games started to get hard. I worked out later on that if you zoom the camera out more you see more of the pitch and can use your passes more tactically rather than hit and hope out of the screen hoping there is another player there to intercept.
The last match was very hard due to being seemingly impossible to score a goal. I had many attempts but by fluke I ended up taking a Hyper shot and sending the keeper flying, knocking his clothes off. This is what arcade games are all about. The shot even had an accompanying animation with the awesome Engrish – “hyper shoot”.
Special mention goes out to the other awesome Engrish event, where a cat streaks onto the pitch randomly and interrupts play (28:00), accompanied by the text “Happening”
Rating 7/10
Difficulty – 5/10
Original (JPN/NTSC) game played on PAL Sega Saturn with NTSC converter cartridge.
Picture split between CRT TV for my own viewing and OSCC scan converter with 2x line doubler, upscaled to HDMI for recording
No cheats used
Easy difficulty
Losses cut out
Box art from thumbnail is taken from my own collection
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