Tecmo World Cup '90 is a football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 arcade game

Arcade game

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...

 released in 1989 by Tecmo. An unofficial bootleg of the game named Euro League featuring European club teams was also released. An unfaithful home version was developed by SIMS for the Sega Mega Drive renamed Tecmo World Cup '92 and released only in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Gameplay

The player can select one from eight available national teams in Tecmo World Cup '90. Japan were included despite them failing to qualify for the World Cup in 1990. The game was an unofficial release, giving them the chance to include the team for appease Japanese players.

The following teams were selectable.
A later European revision of the game was released which included (also non-qualifiers) in place of the USA and in place of Japan.

External links

• http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=277 at classicgaming.com
• http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=tecmo-world-cup-'90&page=detail&id=2847 at arcade history