Nintendo World Cup is a very fun football/soccer game that I remember playing very much when I was younger. I decided to make a movie of it just for fun, and I thought some of you might be interested in the result. It's not a timeattack, since the half lengths are fixed. In fact, it takes longer than the fastest possible movie would because there are short pauses to display the score every time one of the teams makes a goal.
I chose to play as Argentina and used a code (that you get in the game) to skip directly to the final match against West Germany*. My goals for this movie were:
- Score each goal in a different way
- Have each player on my team score at least once
- Allow no player on my team to get tackled
I didn't quite meet the final goal, since the easiest way to get the goalkeeper to score was to let the player I controlled get slide tackled.
Some information that might help you understand what's going on at times is that there are three types of kicks. There's the normal kick, the high power kick, and the super kick. Each team has its own super kick, which is performed by either doing a bicycle kick as the ball comes to you or by taking a certain number of steps (this varies with the team) before kicking. You are limited to five of these per half. High power kicks are performed by taking the required number of steps and kicking after you've used up all of the super kicks.
One unusual thing about this game is that players can perform real tackles on the opposing players. These are more powerful than slide tackles in that they knock the victim down for a short while. Therefore, Nintendo World Cup doesn't quite follow the real soccer rules regarding fouls. A related idea is that players have some sort of HP. This decreases when they get tackled or slide tackled. If it gets low enough, they'll be knocked out until the next goal. According to a walkthrough on GameFAQs, the HP also determines which of the two players gets injured during a real tackle. This was the reason I tried to prevent any of my team from getting tackled.
Here's the
link to the FCM that plays the first half of the final match. I'm not sure if I will finish the match, since I've run out of ideas for more goals. Like I said, the original purpose of the movie was just to have some fun playing this great game.
To get the movie to play correctly, you must set the second controller to the Zapper (long explanation).
I'd like to hear your impressions about the movie and any ideas that you might have for scoring more goals or doing other things in the second half.
* The game was first released in 1990, one year after the Berlin Wall fell, so I don't know why it still distinguishes between East and West Germany.