Submission #10189: Walgrey's A2600 Championship Soccer in 00:06.241

Atari 2600
baseline
(Submitted: Championship Soccer ~ Soccer (USA).a26 USA)
BizHawk 2.11
374
59.9227510135505
219
PowerOn
832283530f5dee332f29cf8c4854dd554f2030a0
Submitted by Walgrey on 2/4/2026 12:44 AM
Submission Comments
To be number one
Running like the wind
Playing hard but always playing fair, oh yeah
Championship Soccer (later renamed to Pelé's Soccer) is a 1981 soccer game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Steve Wright. This game allows you to play against another player or a computer player, and has many configurable options including goal size, computer difficulty, and running speed.

Objectives

  • Uses hardest difficulty
  • Emulator: BizHawk 2.11.0 (Stella core)

Notes

In this TAS, I win a game against a computer player. The game's manual claims that the final game, Game 54, is the hardest. It has the highest running speed, the hardest CPU difficulty, and the smallest goal size. The attacking team moves slower than the defending team when in their half of the field. So I have to briefly pass the ball back to another team member to avoid having the ball stolen from me. Scoring is pretty difficult since the net size is so small. You can avoid passing back to your teammate, but if you do, you'll be unable to score a goal. In single-player games, there are no penalties, so we can end input early for the rest of the game. Since the CPU is unable to score on our goalie, they're free to hold onto the soccer ball until the timer runs out, resulting in the longest and most tense staring contest in soccer history.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to practise my soccer skills. I can't seem to find any soccer balls near me, so I'm going to take a trip to Edmonton and ahem... "borrow" one of the balls from the Talus Dome. I'm sure people won't mind if just one is missing.- Walgrey

nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: I tried to beat this and quickly found out how wonky the game-play is. You win! LOL Nice way of beating this game. Congratulations!
Accepting to "Standard".

inconsistent: Processing. r3gamerz is handling the encodes for this one.
Last Edited by inconsistent on 2/11/2026 6:40 PM
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