Tehkan World Cup

"Tecmo Cup" redirects here. For the Nintendo Entertainment System game, see Tecmo Cup Soccer Game. For the 1989 arcade game, see Tecmo World Cup '90. For the Sega Mega Drive game, see Tecmo Cup Football Game.
Tehkan World Cup
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)Tehkan
Publisher(s)Tecmo
Designer(s)Shin-ichiro Tomie
Kazutoshi Ueda
Programmer(s)Michishito Ishizuka
Artist(s)Rie Ishizuka[a]
Hideyuki Yokoyama[b]
Composer(s)Tsukasa Masuko
Platform(s)Arcade, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Release
Genre(s)Sports (association football)
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Tehkan World Cup,[c] originally released as World Cup[d] in Japan,[3] is an association football video game released to arcades in 1985 by Tehkan, the former name of Tecmo. It features multiplayer gameplay and trackball controllers.[4] It was released in both upright and table arcade cabinets,[1] but was most commonly released in a cocktail cabinet form factor.[4] Its arrival coincided with the buildup to the 1986 FIFA World Cup. It featured the then colors of several of the world's top teams such as West Germany, Argentina and Brazil, although it did not mention any team by name.[4]

The game uses a bird's-eye view, with the trackball controls allowing game physics such as controlling both the direction and speed of the shot. The gameplay format was adapted from the American football game Gridiron Fight, developed by the same team and released earlier in the year, for an association football game, but with the controls simplified down to a trackball and single action button. It became a major success in arcades, and was a landmark title for association football games upon release. While Tehkan World Cup was not officially ported to home systems at the time, its gameplay format was later adapted by Sensible Software to develop the home computer game MicroProse Soccer (1988) and provided the basis for later association football games such as the Sensible Soccer series in the early 1990s.

In 1990, Tehkan World Cup was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System as Tecmo World Cup Soccer. The original arcade version was also released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles as Tecmo Cup in the 2000s.

  1. ^ a b "Overseas Readers Column: Tecmo (Tehkan) Ship Table Type PCB "World Cup"" (PDF). Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 278. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 February 1986. p. 22.
  2. ^ "The Arcade Flyer Archive".
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Beep was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference KLOV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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