
In the first half of the game, the song that plays while the player's team has the ball has been changed because it was a part of the song Moete Hero.The password system has Japanese characters replaced with the English alphabet.The board behind Billy, the instructor, goes from green to blue.When a new game begins, the words above the announcer that say "ON AIR" have been replaced with "TECMO!".Moete Hero, the theme for the Captain Tsubasa anime, used in the intro and the second half of the game, has been replaced.Tsubasa, a spiky-headed, black-haired kid, has been changed to Robin Field, a blonde young adult. The main character (and pretty much all other characters except for the announcer and the referee) have been altered.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. 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. As stated above, the intro was slightly changed.The changes from Captain Tsubasa to Tecmo Cup Soccer Game include: ( September 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.

Present-day games with a " career mode" setting would be inspired by this game's setup.Ĭaptain Tsubasa topped the bi-weekly Japanese Famitsu sales chart in May 1988. Rather than having direct control over the action like a standard soccer sim the game has a cinematic angle with the player having to choose his actions from a timed list and the results of these actions are animated on screen. The game contains elements from role-playing games as the players have skill levels and are mostly controlled by different kinds of text commands.Ĭonsidered to be the first of many games based on the series, which have appeared on many systems, this game was the innovator of games that would be known as "Cinematic Soccer". Tecmo Cup Soccer Game is a heavily Americanized 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 is based on the Captain Tsubasa manga series. Released in 1992 by Tecmo, the objective of the game is fighting your way from junior league all the way to the finals of World Cup. Tecmo Cup Soccer Game, known as Captain Tsubasa in Japan and Tecmo Cup Football Game in Europe, is an association football sports video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
