


While the gameplay and graphics remained largely unaltered, certain features were omitted. The same musical score (albeit adapted to the NES sound hardware), nearly identical gameplay, although significantly hampered by the absence of analog control, almost identical graphics, partially simplified and slowed down.Īs Tehkan World Cup utilised two processors for gameplay and four processors for sound, certain concessions were made to playability on the NES. 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. 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. Although the two games appear virtually identical, Tecmo World Cup Soccer lacks some of the speed and fluidity of its arcade progenitor. 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. Released in 1990 by Tecmo, as its name suggests it is a soccer game focusing on the World Cup. According to the official press release, players should “prepare to score over-the-top goals and meet colorful players & teams in the legendary world of Captain Tsubasa.Tecmo World Cup Soccer is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s unclear if it will have RPG elements, but we really hope that it does. This new game, Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, is set to launch on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The first video game adaptation was developed by Tecmo for the NES, and it launched in western regions with the title Tecmo Cup Soccer Game in 1992. An anime adaptation ran for 128 episodes between 19.

Long-time fans of Captain Tsubasa will know that it began as a manga series that kicked off in 1981, created by Yōichi Takahashi, who was inspired to creat the character after the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. And it looks like a fun, new spin on the anime with loads of soccer action.

Bandai Namco has just announced Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions, a new sports game that collides the worlds of soccer, manga, and anime.
