Konami Hyper Soccer — stories left

Superjuegos Carlos Yuste criticized Hyper Soccer for its "monotonous" graphics, due to lack of audience on the field and score marker, as well as not respecting the original colors of each team, in addition to the repetitive music.

Banzzaïs Lionel Vilner commended its audiovisual presentation but criticized the players' animations for being "bizarre".

Regardless, Bailly criticized the audio department for its unoriginal music and "practically inexistent" sound effects, as well as the constant slowdown.

However, both Bright and Rignall praised its presentation due to the range of available options.

Whitfield commended its presentation and addition of a two-player mode, but found the basic gameplay unimpressive and criticized the graphics due to the sprite flickering and "jerky" movement, slow sound and playability.

Superjuegos Carlos Yuste criticized Hyper Soccer for its "monotonous" graphics, due to lack of audience on the field and score marker, as well as not respecting the original colors of each team, in addition to the repetitive music.

Regardless, Bailly criticized the audio department for its unoriginal music and "practically inexistent" sound effects, as well as the constant slowdown.

Similarly, Robert Whitfield of the Australian Nintendo Magazine System called it a "poor soccer sim that lacks everything that makes the actual game great".

Part of the Hyper Sports series, which included Hyper Olympic (Track & Field outside Japan), its sequel Hyper Sports and Hyper Athlete (International Track & Field outside Japan), it is the second soccer game by Konami following Konami's Soccer (Konami's Football outside Japan) on the MSX, and their first soccer game on a Nintendo platform.

Konami Hyper Soccer was only released in Europe and Australia, being Konami's first soccer game on a Nintendo platform.