Outside of the standard ball kicking sound effects that you’d find in a football game, Tecmo World Cup ’92 has some musical tracks that play in the background whilst you are competing, and I have to say that I liked them.
There are better looking games from this era, but the visuals here are mostly fine, and they didn’t hamper my enjoyment of the game. Visually, Tecmo World Cup ’92 is pretty bog standard, but it does the job, for the most part, outside of the odd kit colour choices. We don’t really get much of a chance to see the stadiums, with every game being played on a generic looking pitch. The players themselves don’t have a lot of detail, but they look mostly fine and remind me a bit of the Centurion from Altered Beast in the way they run around, actually. At first I thought this might be due to some kind of copyright issue, but then teams like Morocco play in their trademark red, and Brazil play in their traditional yellow shirts, so it might simply be a case of the people making the game not really knowing what everyone’s kit colour was and deciding to just take a stab and hope it was right. One of the oddest parts of Tecmo World Cup ’92 is that most of the teams don’t play in the correct kit colours, with teams like England playing in orange instead of white, whilst Hungary play in sky blue like Manchester City instead of their usual red. I did have some joy by trying to fire the ball at the corner opposite to where the keeper was standing as if you were facing a certain way, it would hit a sweet spot that the keeper couldn’t reach, but it never really felt like anything other than chance.
It doesn’t help that sometimes your own keeper will gormlessly let a ball trundle past them like they’re Massimo Taibi with seemingly no rhyme or reason. This often means that you kind of just have to “hit and hope” a lot of the time, with the goalkeepers seemingly having goal-stopping superpowers most of the time. I found scoring to be quite difficult, actually, as you don’t really have that much control over the direction and power of your shots. I found Tecmo World Cup ’92 to be pretty playable, although the difficulty can spike significantly the further into the game you get, leading to frustrating matches where you just get swarmed by opponents who promptly scythe you apart with vicious slide tackles. Those who like a touch more simulation and realism in their football games probably won’t enjoy that Tecmo World Cup ’92 goes for a more arcade-styled experience, but if you just want to stick a game on and get stuck right in, then the style being used here should likely be right up your alley. The action is played as a quick clip, and it doesn’t seem possible to commit a foul, no matter how viciously you tackle an opposing player. You can amend which buttons do what, but the default settings see the A and C Buttons used as pass and the B Button used as shoot when you are attacking, whilst A and C operate as tackle and B acts as switch player when you are trying to defend. The arcade roots of Tecmo World Cup ’92 are markedly clear in the gameplay, with a two-button control scheme when you are both defending and on the attack. Tecmo World Cup ’92 focused a lot more on the arcade side of things rather than simulation, with it trying to be faithful to the arcade original.
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The SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis has its fair share of decent Football-Em-Ups, with the FIFA series and a port of ISS Deluxe being the main highlights. The game received slightly above average scores, for the most part, with a lot of 6 out of 10s from a variety of different outlets. Tecmo World Cup ’92 is actually a port of an arcade game from 1990, back when the world was gripped with Soccer Fever during the dramatic World Cup held in Italy. This led me to discovering Tecmo World Cup ’92 for the SEGA Mega Drive, and I decided to stick with it so that I could write about it this week. The tournament itself got me energised to play some football games, leading to me heading back to the fourth gen in order to play some games I hadn’t previous played before. England actually had a pretty decent tournament this summer, reaching the Final of Euro 2020 before suffering a narrow defeat to Italy on penalties.
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