Tecmo Cup Soccer Gameredirects here.For its Japanese original counterpart, see Captain Tsubasa (FC).
Tecmo Cup Soccer Game (known as Captain Tsubasa in Japan) is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Released in 1992-09-24 by Tecmo, it is a football (soccer) game. In the game you must fight your way from junior league all the way to the finals of World Cup.
Tecmo Cup Soccer Game is a Westernized version of the Japanese Captain Tsubasa game released for the Family Computer system, featuring a different main character, a different introduction and more western-looking players. The game contains elements from role-playing games as the players have skill levels and are mostly controlled by different kinds of text commands.
Differences[]
Tsubasa (Famicom version)
Robin Field (NES version)
The changes from Captain Tsubasa to Tecmo Cup Soccer Game include:
The game's intro was slightly changed. When the game was turned on, a soccer ball can be seen on a blue floor, rather than being accompanied by a young Tsubasa (on a green floor, probably to indicate grass) as in the Japanese version. Also, in the Japanese version, the plane was still shown (without the sky) in front of the logo, while in the American version, the plane was not shown in front of the logo at all.
The main character (and pretty much all other characters except for theannouncer and the referee) have been altered. Tsubasa, a spiky-headed, black-haired kid, has been changed to Robin Field, a blonde young adult.
Moete Hero, the theme for the Captain Tsubasa anime, used in the intro and the second half of the game, has been replaced.
When a new game begins, the words above the announcer that say "ON AIR" have been replaced with "TECMO!". Also, the "JBS" logo has been omitted.
The board behind Billy, the instructor, goes from green to blue. There are no kids sitting around him.
The password system has Japanese characters replaced with the English alphabet.
In Captain Tsubasa, the player had to go through a short little sidequest after each match to have Taro Misaki play on their team, but his Tecmo Cup Soccer Game counterpart - Robin's brother, Cecil - joins the team right away.
The quality of all goalkeepers in the game was dramatically upgraded, with some GKs (particularly the Zaps and Ninjas) being able to stop the special shot of Robin. Also, the GKs of Arabia (Argentina in the original), and Cameroon (Uruguay in the original) are hard to beat.
