Captain Tsubasa is a 1994 video game released by Tecmo for the Sega Mega-CD

Sega Mega-CD

The is an add-on device for the Mega Drive video game console, designed and produced by Sega and released in Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The device was also released in North America under the name Sega CD, for the Sega Genesis...

 and based on the popular Captain Tsubasa

Captain Tsubasa

, also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long running Japanese manga, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981...

 manga/anime series. It was published only in Japan.

Summary

The game is a further extension of Tecmo's "Cinematic Soccer" genre of games that appeared previously in other platforms, with the player watching from a cinematic angle and having to choose his actions from a timed list, with the results of these actions being animated on screen. It is also notable for being the first CD-ROM

CD-ROM

A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....

based Captain Tsubasa video game, featuring improved spoken cutscenes with the purpose of retelling the original Captain Tsubasa story more closely to watching the anime.