Download Soccer Kid

This is the story of Soccer Kid:
“The year is 1994; deep in outer space the alien Scab is scouring the galaxy, searching the planets for trophies, to add to his collection. Scab's radar detects the perfect specimen on the planet Earth! Wasting no time he fires his beam to collect his prize - The World Cup!
Disaster! As the cup travels into space it strikes a passing asteroid smashing the cup into 5 pieces. Each piece falling back to Earth scattered across the globe.
Many miles away the Soccer Kid is at home watching this on his TV. Sparing not a thought for his safety, he decides to find and return the trophy in time for The World Cup final.
Ready for action dressed in his best kit, with his ball under his arm, nothing will stop him on his quest to return the cup.”

Soccer Kid is an arcade game in which, as you can see above, you must find all scattered pieces of the cup before the finals! Your quest won't be simple, if you thought it would. You will have to travel across the Earth in order to find all 5 pieces of the cup and combine them together. You will meet many enemies during your voyage, and the only way to kill them is to hit them with the ball you have with you. Of course you will blow many of your balls, it happens even to the best. On every level you have limited number of balls, depending on level length. When you loose your ball, or blow it, just hold space bar, until another ball shows up!

Graphics are somehow like in cartoons, and I liked it! The music is really good, e.g. when you begin a new level, you will hear a whistle, just like on the start of a football match.

The only thing I didn’t like was the option to save. You can’t save often, only after 2 or more levels, and it’s not always easy to reach next savepoint.

A mark 4 then, due to the few savepoints and linear levels. Still, this game is a great way to spend surplus time.

In order to run the game in DosBox, you must edit the file dosbox.conf (placed in your DosBox's directory), find (somewhere at the end) "ems=true", and change it to "ems=false". Also, it would be wise to change it back once you're done playing! For such purposes I suggest you use D-Fend front end.