Soccer, the most commonly played sport worldwide, has been brought to your living room via Pele for the Sega Genesis. Pele, the one-named soccer phenom on whom this game is named after, is widely considered the greatest of all time. You can play Pele alone or with a friend in exhibition matches or in a tournament. By yourself you can play in an 18-game season, or you can enter a practice mode, wherein you work on the fundamentals of the game.
In the two-player mode, players must alternate playing one-player games until their two teams are matched up. There are forty teams, each of them represented by countries and cities from all around the globe. Features in this game that are also part of the sport of soccer itself include free kicks, penalty kicks, replays, roster substitutions, formation changes, goal kicks, throw ins, corner kicks, offsides, and game and team statistics.