Tecmo Cup Soccer Game

Tecmo Cup Soccer Game
North American cover art
DeveloperTecmo
PublisherTecmo
ComposerKeiji Yamagishi
SeriesCaptain Tsubasa
PlatformNintendo Entertainment System
Release
  • JP: April 28, 1988
  • NA: September 1992
  • EU: 1992
GenresSports (association football)
Role playing
ModeSingle-player

Tecmo Cup Soccer Game, known as Captain Tsubasa in Japan and Tecmo Cup Football Game in Europe, is an association football sports video game released in 1992 by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The objective of the game is for the player to fight his way from junior league all the way to the finals of the World Cup.

Based on the Captain Tsubasa manga series, 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.