Mr. Soccer Robot Football brings RoboCup action to your basement

Despite the fact that their skills may pale in comparison to such legends of the game as RoboVie-V, Manus-I, or The Visi'ON, the Mr. Soccer football robots are the only soccerbots that you can have shipped to your house for sixty bucks. UK site Firebox is selling what we believe could be the Cabbage Patch Kid of Christmas '05, Mr. Soccer Robot Football, a long-overdue home version of the popular RoboCup series of bot challenges (minus the AI). Up to fourteen remote-controlled, egg shaped bots can scurry around the enclosed pitch doing that thing that soccerbots do, although with so many players on the field at once, we can't imagine that it's much more fun than Electronic Shakin' Football. Only two bots come with the package (extra teammates sold separately), and users can customize their team with different stickers (although the teams sport English and Brazillian jerseys), and even change their tiny shoes to alter maneuverability. Now all we need to do is hook up one of our foosball robots to Mr. Soccer, and we can just sit back like regular sports fans and do no work at all.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM]

Well... It probably plays better than the latest EA FIFA game.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM]

Aberdeen Sucks!!! Go Manchester United

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM]

I bet that kids who play this can't play real sports, haha.

And #1 hit the nail on the head.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM]

Clay Aiken looks smokin' in that red Kappa shirt!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM]

Looks sorta fun... I just hate buying any game that's not a system that will play multiple games once the orginal gets boring. Trying to see if this thing has any other possible uses...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:38AM]

Mr. Soccer has been out in the Japanese market for over a year now. My wife bought one for me last Christmas, and we had a lot of fun playing with it - for a while. It's a great party type game that people get excited about because of its uniqueness. After that wears off, it tends to quickly be retired to the back of the closet.

I had hoped that it would also be hackable, since I love modifying gadgets like this. But, inspite of the healthy price tag, the internal design was just too flimsy and weak for a reliable hack. We did take some photos and videos, especially of the wheels and "feet" in action and posted them on our blog - http://www.robots-dreams.com/2005/10/mr_soccer_robot.html.

I would recommend it as a party game, either for kids or adults. It was definitely a lot of fun from that perspective.

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