9.2 /10 1 Votes9.2
Initial release date 7 December 1990 Genre Sports game | 4.6/5 Publisher Tecmo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mode(s) Single-player and Two-player Similar Tecmo games, Sports games |
Tecmo world cup soccer gameplay hd720p 1990
Tecmo World Cup Soccer is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Released in 1990 by Tecmo, as its name suggests it is a soccer game focusing on the World Cup.
Contents
- Tecmo world cup soccer gameplay hd720p 1990
- Nes tecmo world cup soccer 1990
- World Cup Teams
- Similarities to Tehkan World Cup
- Differences to Tehkan World Cup
- References

Tecmo World Cup Soccer is not to be confused with Nintendo World Cup of the same year, nor Tecmo Cup Soccer Game released in September 1992, is a port of Tehkan World Cup adapted to the NES hardware. Although the two games appear virtually identical, Tecmo World Cup Soccer lacks some of the speed and fluidity of its arcade progenitor. While the gameplay is ostensibly unchanged, the lack of support for analog control in the NES version renders it a digital-control-only game that requires almost completely different tactics.

Nes tecmo world cup soccer 1990
World Cup Teams
The national teams in Nintendo World Cup are as follows:
Similarities to Tehkan World Cup

Tecmo World Cup Soccer, released five years after its arcade ancestor, is a direct conversion of Tehkan World Cup squeezed with some concessions into the smaller NES hardware. These are the principle similarities:

Differences to Tehkan World Cup

As Tehkan World Cup utilized two processors for gameplay and four processors for sound, certain concessions were made to playability on the NES. While the gameplay and graphics remained largely unaltered, certain features were omitted. In recognition of its new home system format, some arcade elements such as the instant knockout format were abandoned in order to provide greater longevity. A partial list of difference is below:
