Tails Soccer is the third in the Sega2 and McDonald's joint venture promotional series. Basically, you get to purchase one with every McDonald's meal for RM 6. Tails Soccer comes in the now standard spiffy Sega2 packaging, with box and all the frills.
The plastic wrap it comes in is also the standard Sega 2 packaging, with the name of the game and the character printed in monotone on the outside and the game with a manual (a nice word for a piece of paper) inside.
The manual is superfluous really, its just the same three stage, game goes faster as you up a stage, left-middle-right movement typical of the Sonic Team Sega2 games.
What I found unusual is that the back of the manual has the instructions printed in Chinese (Mandarin) as well. That wasn't the case with the others in the series.
Tails Soccer itself is molded like a console game controller, but it seems to be meant for smaller hands than mine coz it wasn't really comfortable to play. There is no flip-top clamshell design this time, just a standard mini video game design. It's interesting to note the similarities in the Sega2 Tails Soccer and the original Sega Knuckles Soccer [sixthseal.com]. Probably used the same chipset with minor mods.
Here's the pre-painted background...same old, same old.
Tails! God dammit, you missed the ball!
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