World Cup Soccer
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World Cup Soccer (ワールドカップサッカー), is a football game developed and published by Sega in 1989. It was subsequently brought to the Sega Master System by Sega and various home computers by Elite Systems in the following year.
World Cup Soccer has been marketed under many names. In Japan the Mega Drive version has always been known as 'World Cup Soccer and in United States, World Championship Soccer (although some earlier cartridges erroneously use the simplified development name, Soccer on the title screen). In Europe, however, the game was originally sold as a joint venture between Sega, Italian firm Olivetti (a subsidiary company of Telecom Italia), and Virgin Mastertronic, becoming World Cup Italia '90, holding the Italian 1990 FIFA World Cup license for a short period. Later variants in Europe are simply titled Sega Soccer.
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Gameplay
World Cup Soccer is a top-down football game which adheres to most of the sport's rules. There are no free kicks.
Teams
There are 24 national teams in most versions of World Cup Soccer, with the exception of the Master System version which ups the count to 30. The home computer variants exchange Japan for the Republic of Ireland.
Mega Drive
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Belgium
- Brazil
- China
- Denmark
- England
- France
- Holland
- Hungary
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Peru
- Poland
- Scotland
- Rep Korea
- Spain
- Uruguay
- USA
- USSR
- W. Germany
- Yugoslavia
Master System
- Argentina
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Czechoslovakia
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- China
- Denmark
- Egypt
- England
- France
- Holland
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Mexico
- Poland
- Romania
- Scotland
- Rep Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- UAE
- Uruguay
- USA
- USSR
- W. Germany
- Yugoslavia
No later releases addressed the issue of West Germany, the USSR and Yugoslavia, which had all ceased to exist by the beginning of 1993.
During the time of the japanese Mega Drive version release, the qualification phase for the actual tournament had not ended. That's the reason of the inconsistencies between the team list present on the game and the teams that actually qualifyed. This was not fixed in following releases.
The Master System version was released after the tournament and had all the teams plus six extra teams. The first phase groups are the actual ones that were played in Italia '90.
History
Legacy
The game was followed by World Championship Soccer II in 1994.
Production credits
Commodore 64 version
- Programming and Music: Mike Lympany
- Grafix: P Robinson and S Beal
- Technical Assistant: D Wainwright
- Managed: S Hosseini
- Animated Pixels Production
Magazine articles
- Main article: World Cup Soccer/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #12: "July 1990" (1990-xx-xx)[5]
also published in:
- Computer & Video Games (UK) #108: "November 1990" (1990-10-16)[6]
- ACE (UK) #39: "December 1990" (1990-11-xx)[7]
- Computer & Video Games (UK) #109: "December 1990" (1990-11-16)[8]
Physical scans
Mega-Tech version
Mega Drive version
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 File:ACE UK 40.pdf, page 165
- ↑ File:GamePro US 007.pdf, page 54
- ↑ File:Raze UK 05.pdf, page 45
- ↑ File:CVG UK 111.pdf, page 80
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "July 1990" (US; 1990-xx-xx), page 9
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "November 1990" (UK; 1990-10-16), page 11
- ↑ ACE, "December 1990" (UK; 1990-11-xx), page 15
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "December 1990" (UK; 1990-11-16), page 11
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- ↑ Complete Guide to Consoles, "" (UK; 1989-10-16), page 39
- ↑ The Complete Guide to Sega, "" (UK; 1991-05-xx), page 51
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 136
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 115
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "December 1992" (UK; 1992-xx-xx), page 79
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 95
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "January 1990" (JP; 1989-12-08), page 73
- ↑ Mega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-17), page 60
- ↑ Mega, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 21
- ↑ Mega, "August 1993" (UK; 1993-07-15), page 21
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 143
- ↑ Power Play, "12/89" (DE; 1989-11-13), page 74
- ↑ Sega Power, "March 1991" (UK; 1991-02-07), page 49
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 55
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 68
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86
- ↑ Tilt, "Septembre 1990" (FR; 1990-0x-xx), page 87
- ↑ Top Secret, "Kwiecień 1995" (PL; 1995-xx-xx), page 57
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 226
- ↑ File:CGtC UK 04.pdf, page 110
- ↑ File:CVG UK 112.pdf, page 78
- ↑ File:HobbyConsolas ES 005.pdf, page 26
- ↑ File:Joystick FR 012.pdf, page 126
- ↑ File:MeanMachines UK 03.pdf, page 34
- ↑ File:MeanMachines UK 20.pdf, page 114
- ↑ File:PlayerOne FR 005.pdf, page 51
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