Pro Soccer (Data East)

Pro Soccer
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Platform: Arcade (Liberation hardware) Released internationally: November 1983 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused text.

Pro Soccer is a Pro Soccer game about Pro Soccer.

Developer Text

Two copyright warning strings are in the game. The first starts at D0A9 in the main CPU:

COPYRIGHT 1983 BY DECO 
DO NOT COPY THIS PROGRAM 

And at D1CC:

**** CAUTION **** 
DO NOT COPY THIS GAME 
**** BY DATA EAST CORP.**** 

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Filler Text

For whatever reason, three Japanese folk tales are included as filler text in the ROM. These aren't in the DECO Cassette version, only the stand-alone game. They have been deliberately altered from the original stories by whomever put these in the game, in various humorous ways.

At D107: 瘤取り爺さん, "The Old Man's Lump Removed"

The last line of this is a pun in that it can be read as both, "an old man with a lump" or "an old man that was fat":

Original
**** KOBUTORI JIISAN **** MUKASHI MUKASHI ARUTOKORO NI AMARI FUTOTTE INAI OJIISAN GA IMASHITA ---- KOBUTORI JIISAN **************************
Translated
**** OLD MAN WITH A LUMP **** Once upon a time, some place not too far away, there was an old man who wasn't too fat --- an old man that was fat. **************************

D27D: 竹取物語, "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter":

Original
*** TAKE TORI MONO GATARI *** MUKASHI ARU TOKORO NI TAKE O TOTTE KURASHITE IRU OJIISAN GA ORIMASHITA , ARUHI OJIISAN WA TAKE YABU NO NAKA DE HIKARU TAKE O MITSUKETANODE NATA DE TAKE O WARUTO , NAKKA KARA FUTATSU NI WARE TA KAGUYAHIME GA ARAWAREMASHITA ***
Translated
*** THE TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER *** Long ago in a certain place, there was an old man who cut bamboo for a living. One day, the old man found a glowing piece of bamboo in the middle of a thicket, so he cut it in two. When he did so, Princess Kaguya, who had been split in two, appeared from within it. ***

F7EB: 桃太郎, "Peach Boy":

Original
*** MOMO TARO *** MUKASHI MUKASHI ARUTOKORO NI OJIISAN TO OBAASAN GA ORIMASHITA. OJIISAN WA YAMA NI SHIBAKARI NI, OBAASAN WA KAWA NI SENTAKU NI IKIMASHITA . OBAASAN GA KAWA DE SENTAKU O SHITEIRUTO JOURYU NO HOU KARA OUKINA MOMO GA NAGARETE KIMASHITA. OBAASAN WA SONO MOMO O MOTTE KAERUTO OJIISANGA HOUCHOU DE SONO MOMO O FUTATSU NI WARI MASHITA. SURUTO NAKA KARA FUTATSU NI WARARETA , CHIMAMIRE NO MOMO TARO GA DETE KIMASHITA ... MEDETASHI MEDETASHI ***
Translated
*** PEACH BOY *** Once upon a time, in a certain place, there lived an old man and his wife. One day, the old man went to the mountains to gather firewood while his wife went to the river to do laundry. As she was doing so, she saw a big peach flow down from upstream. She carried it home with her, and her husband carved it in two with a kitchen knife. After doing so, a blood-covered Peach Boy who had been completely split in two appeared. ... And they all lived happily ever after. ***

(Translation: Bast, Divingkataetheweirdo)

(Source: Original TCRF research)