Nintendo World Cup

Description

This soccer game was made at the time when Nintendo introduced their four player adapter, and was probably made for the four playing purpose. This is shown clearly when you choose to play 2 or more players. Then you can choose between many different ground layers, like ice, grass and stone, which adds to the replayability.

When you play a one player game you play the world cup as one of the top soccer countries of that time, and you meet countries in a fixed order. Cameroon in the first match and the final is against West Germany. In an old-school fashion you lose when you play a draw, there's no extra time whatsoever.

In the game you always steer only one character, which you choose before the match starts. You can then give simple orders to you team-mates, like pass, tackle and shoot. Your moves are also limited to these moves. The game is totally lawless, so feel free to make elbow tackles without a wink from the referee. Probably it was made this way to be funnier to play against friends.

Alternate Titles

• "熱血高校ドッジボール部サッカー編" -- Japanese Famicom spelling
• "Nekketsu Kōkō Soccer-bu: World Cup-hen" -- Japanese Game Boy title
• "Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball-bu: Soccer-hen" -- Japanese Famicom title
• "Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball-bu: PC Soccer-hen" -- Japanese PC Engine title
• "Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball-bu: MD Soccer-hen" -- Japanese Mega Drive title
• "Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball-bu: CD Soccer-hen" -- Japanese PC Engine CD title

Part of the Following Group

• Kunio / Nekketsu High games

Merchant Title Platform Price   World Cup Soccer Game Boy     Nintendo World Cup NES $0.89   Nintendo World Cup     Please select your country: United States Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Vietnam Other Worldwide Not an American user?

User Reviews

The lack of realism makes this game great	NES	Sean Booth (24)
Knock them out!	Game Boy	vicrabb (7002)
The game isn't good, but hell, I had fun with it	NES	Pixelspeech (886)

The Press Says

1UP!	NES	Oct 26, 2002	89 out of 100	89
Total!! UK Magazine	Game Boy	Jan, 1992	64 out of 100	64
Nintendo Power Magazine	Game Boy	May, 1991	3.1 out of 5	62
Video Games	NES	Jun, 1991	56 out of 100	56
Video Games	Game Boy	Sep, 1991	48 out of 100	48
Power Play	NES	May, 1991	44 out of 100	44
Mean Machines	NES	Mar, 1991	33 out of 100	33
The Video Game Critic	NES	Aug 15, 2009	D-	16

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Trivia

The original Japanese release of the game had a storyline and different half-time cinemas that were stripped for the US release.