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As you’ll be well aware if you’re a soccer fan, the 2026 World Cup is just around the corner, and in celebration of the return of the world’s biggest soccer tournament, QUByte Interactive has dusted off the 16-bit platform game Soccer Kid for the release of the new Soccer Kid Collection.
If you’re unfamiliar with Soccer Kid, it’s a 1993 platform game by Krisalis Software that was inspired by the (real-life) story of the 1983 Jules Rimet (World Cup) trophy theft.
Publisher QUByte Interactive describes Soccer Kid thusly: “Instead of attacking enemies or firing lasers, your entire arsenal depends on your soccer skills. You have to handle bounce physics, master high-risk bicycle kicks, and pull off tight headers to navigate brutal retro level designs across England, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the USA.”
The Soccer Kid Collection will include two versions of the game, which are the MS-DOS version and the SNES versions of Soccer Kid. The version this writer grew up with, the Amiga version, is sadly absent, but we expect that all versions of Soccer Kid will be very similar, so two versions of the game is probably plenty!
Features promised in the Soccer Kid Collection include: save states; screen filters,; and a historical gallery with a collection of original boxes, manuals, and vintage advertisements.
The Soccer Kid Collection is set to be released on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch on June 18, 2026, right at the peak of the World Cup fever!
You can add the Soccer Kid Collection to your Steam wishlist now, and you can find out more about the collection at the QUByte Store.
QUByte Interactive’s QUByte Classics line is certainly busy re-releasing classic retro titles at the moment, as it was only yesterday that we reported on the publisher’s forthcoming Thunder Hoop Collection.
