This soccer game was made at the time when Nintendo introduced their four player adapter, and was probably made for the four playing purpose. Then you can choose between many different ground layers, like ice, grass and stone, which adds to the replayability.
When you play a one player game you play the world cup as one of the top soccer countries of that time, and you meet countries in a fixed order. Cameroon in the first match and the final is against West Germany. In an old-school fashion you lose when you play a draw, there's no extra time whatsoever.
In the game you always steer only one character, which you choose before the match starts. You can then give simple orders to you team-mates, like pass, tackle and shoot. Your moves are also limited to these moves. The game is totally lawless, so feel free to make elbow tackles without a wink from the referee. Probably it was made this way to be funnier to play against friends.








1. slangman
26 Sep 2008, 12:48 GMT
Dunno if it has stood the test of time but i doubt i will be getting this since sports aren't my sort of thing.
2. KeeperBvK
26 Sep 2008, 12:49 GMT
This one certainly has stood the test of time. Amazing game especially in 4-player.
3. Bass X0
26 Sep 2008, 14:25 GMT
I expect this will be released soon.
4. dk_xcalibur
26 Sep 2008, 14:27 GMT
Great game. IMO, this is the best sports game to come off of the NES.
5. fco.
26 Sep 2008, 14:53 GMT
The only football game I've ever loved. Please come here quick!
6. lordbowser
26 Sep 2008, 15:21 GMT
This is the only soccer game I've ever enjoyed. Its definitely worth the price of admission.
7. MrLopez
26 Sep 2008, 17:04 GMT
Same characters as River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball!
8. Mickeymac
26 Sep 2008, 22:51 GMT
I'd pass on this, since I can't stand soccer in any form, but my brother might like it.
9. Mr. Cheez
27 Sep 2008, 02:11 GMT
Me neither Mickey, even if it does have Kunio characters. If they made an Ice Hockey game with Kunio characters in it, however, THAT I'd buy!
10. alxtlvra
27 Sep 2008, 05:12 GMT
Watch the video above ... W. GERMANY team? This kind of things makes you feel the unforgetable 80's and early 90's vibe. What a feeling! seriously almost crying!
11. WolfLink22
27 Sep 2008, 07:48 GMT
OMG another NES Game that i could play over and over again and only Soccer game i ever to this day still give a crap about because it just plays way more differently then a Soccer game of today because of different ground layers, like ice, grass and stone, which adds to the replayability. Even getting to switch between who you use in each matchup never got old and omg don't get me started on the music i still have the you lost theme stuck in my head just thinking about this Classic Favorite.Then there are the special moves to kick the Soccer Ball with too sure Soccer games of today still have the basic kicks and head hitting shots but then there is the effects of the Ball cutting like a Saw Blade that i still find cool to this day too.
You can't just find all of the above in 1 Soccer game anymore and Alex one of the Team USA Members is also in another VC Game that USA has too.
If you have never played this game then you are missing out big time.
12. Junichi
28 Sep 2008, 18:18 GMT
Stop calling it 'soccer'.
13. Mr. Cheez
28 Sep 2008, 23:21 GMT
^We here in America call it Soccer.
14. WolfLink22
29 Sep 2008, 02:44 GMT
Junichi I'll call Nintendo World Cup Soccer any time i want since USA has a sport called Football already. You may call USA's Football by something else it's that way with USA too.Shoot Japan may not call Nintendo World Cup Soccer or Football either.
Either way i still want Nintendo World Cup Soccer any way.
15. BF-Medic
29 Sep 2008, 07:19 GMT
Oh, I remember when we used to play this in 4-player mode. Classic stuff! Hope to see this soon
16. Betagam7
29 Sep 2008, 13:29 GMT
I think that the reason we call it "football" is because it is a game where you use your "foot" to maneuvre a "ball" around the pitch.
This is as opposed to America's "Football", a game where you use your "hands" to carry what can only be described as "not a ball" around a pitch.
The rest of the world already have a game like this except they call it rugby and played it before your country and its "football" were discovered/invented.
The difference is that, short of putting "American" in front of its title we've never tried to rebrand your sport with a stupid name like "carryball", hence why we tend to get a bit fed up of hearing our sport referred to as "soccer".
17. Tony
29 Sep 2008, 14:10 GMT
We call it Soccer to avoid confusion with our American football. Calling it Soccer is not an insult just a different name
Anyway, I am looking forward to this game.
18. WolfLink22
29 Sep 2008, 22:31 GMT
What Tony said.
19. Betagam7
30 Sep 2008, 15:09 GMT
I appreciate its not done to deliberately insult but its easy to see how its annoying for the rest of the world to have American's rebranding of a world recognised sport gradually infiltrating the rest of the world simply because it clashes with a name they borrowed for a sport that only they have any real interest in. thus Europe ends up getting FIFA SOCCER all through the 90's
Best not to even get into why we have a Game Boy "COLOR"...
20. antster1983
30 Sep 2008, 15:32 GMT
Woo-hoo! Kunio-kun Soccer!
21. Mickeymac
01 Oct 2008, 03:03 GMT
@Betagam7
It's not like were going to invade your country and making everyone call it "Soccer"! So we changed the name of the sport in order to keep it from getting confused with one that is more popular in our own country. It's not a big deal, really.
@Mr. Cheez
Hell yeah, Kunio Hockey would be awesome!
22. The Fox
05 Oct 2008, 17:03 GMT
Hey, Betagam7, whats the deal with "Chips" and "Crisps"? They're french fries and potato chips, and I demand all British stop using colloquialisms for snack foods. Annoying, isn't it?
As the little flags next to the user names indicate, there are people from all over the world on this site, and you should realize that each country has their own phrases and idioms.
23. WolfLink22
05 Oct 2008, 20:45 GMT
Nintendo World Cup Soccer is coming to Japan this Tuesday.Now i really wish i had a Japanese Wii.
24. michinmuri
06 Oct 2008, 22:48 GMT
Looks like River City Soccer, lol.
25. AlphaNerd01
07 Oct 2008, 01:39 GMT
Awesome. I hate soccer as a sport, but I love this game.
26. WolfLink22
10 Oct 2008, 02:32 GMT
AlphaNerd01 The reasons you may like it maybe are the same reasons as to why i like it.I stated my reasons before if you look at Comment number 11 by me those maybe your reasons as well more detailed or not.
27. Mr 64
28 Oct 2008, 13:17 GMT
Oh my days! Talk about a blast from the past in all the worst possible ways. Absolute garbage! Why not dig out C64 International Soccer too whilst we're here? 8-bit CPUs and football games just don't mix. Novelty footy games have never done it for me either, either Mario Smash Football didn't cut it for me and just got annoying after a bit. Call me a purist but the further away a football game deviates from the grass-roots of meat and potato pies and crumbling terraces, the less I like it!
Please, please, please bring out an Amiga emulator so we can have SWOS! Failing that, the SNES/MD version of Sensible Soccer. SWOS is still the king of football games in my opinion, which is pretty shocking seeing as it was released 14 years ago on a 7 MHz computer!
28. ness
31 Oct 2008, 15:44 GMT
I absolutely love "Nintendo World Cup", one of the best football games of all time^^.
29. Betagam7
06 Nov 2008, 13:19 GMT
"Hey, Betagam7, whats the deal with "Chips" and "Crisps"?"
The deal is that those things have different names in every country and theres no crossover wheras Football is Football everywhere but the USA. So why do we have things being branded "soccer" outside of that country and Game Boy "color"s in the UK?
Not trying to have a go at anyone here, just the stupid company's who market as if eveyone was American. Take your own example and imagine you woke up to a world of "chips" and "crisps" and totally different spellings and see how annoying it would rapidly become for you.
Now feel free to tell me that you "could" care less to really get me on a rant
30. Mr 64
06 Nov 2008, 13:58 GMT
To be fair, "soccer" is an interchangable term in Britain, it does crop up from time to time and the term "soccer" originates over here too. It's a concatination of "Association" from "Association Football" (what is now the FA) I believe from the dawn of professional football. Rugby is actually called "Rugby Football", we just choose to chop the "football" bit off and you could argue that American Football is some bizarre off-spring of rugby.
It's certainly not a tap/faucet level of linguistic discrepancy. I personally don't like the word very much, but we are the ones to blame for it, not the Yanks! And the word "soccer" has done far less to harm our beautiful game than the words "Premier League" anyway.
Back onto the subject... Bring SWOS out please!
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