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Tehkan World Cup

Name: Tehkan World Cup
Developer: Tehkan

Year: 1985
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Sports
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Trackball: Optical [Direction and Speed]
Buttons: 1 [Kick]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Tehkan World Cup PCB Image

Tehkan World Cup Description

A top-view 2D football soccer game with four-way scrolling movement and fairly realistic game play. Raise world cup etages to win it. The game is trackball operated with one button for shot and pass powered by trackball inertia.

Tehkan World Cup, aka. Tecmo Cup, is the first multi-player soccer game featuring a trackball controller.3 Programmed by Michishito Ishizuka it was released to arcades in 1985 by Tehkan, Ltd., the former name of Tecmo, Inc. Its arrival coincided with the buildup to the 1986 FIFA World Cup. It featured the then colors of several of the world's top teams such as West Germany, Argentina and Brazil, although it did not mention any team by name. It was most commonly released in a cocktail cabinet form factor, while graphically it offered a two-dimensional birds-eye view of the field that was unique for its time. Its trackball control system contributed significantly to its gameplay which was relatively speedy and exhibited a fluidity something akin to ice hockey, with as little as 3 seconds required to score from kick-off. Two-player action could be highly competitive, with players facing each other across the game space while using sweeping arm movements reminiscent of table tennis. Mechanical reliability proved to be the game's Achilles' heel, as the physical nature of play necessitated regular maintenance on high-wear components.

Tehkan World Cup was produced by Tehkan in 1985.

Tehkan released 15 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981.

Other machines made by Tehkan during the time period Tehkan World Cup was produced include Gridiron Fight, Lovely Poker, Pinball Action, Pontoon, All American Football, Bomb Jack, Star Force, Guzzler, Senjyo, and Space Tank.

Tehkan World Cup - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.79 (2 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.00

     Overall 'Like': 4.00
     Fun (Social): 4.00
     Fun (Solo): 4.00
     Collector Desire: 4.00

Technical Impressions Score: 3.50

     Gameplay: 3.50
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 3.50
     Sound/Music: 2.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Information

Most cabinets are cocktail tables, but some versions are uprights that use joystick controls.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Miscellaneous

Visit http://www.soccerclips.com/vidclips/videogames/arcade/tehkan.htm to view video clips of this game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tehkan World Cup Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 26 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 15 of these machines are owned by our active Tehkan World Cup collectors. And of these, 3 are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 11 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Tehkan World Cup.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

This game uses two Z80C CPUs for processing and a Z80C, two AY-3-8910s and one M5205 FM samples for sound.

Legacy

Tehkan World Cup (1985)
World Cup '90 (1989)

Video Clips

Tehkan World Cup Arcade Retro Danuart

Tehkan World Cup (Arcade) [Tehkan] Retro Danuart

Tehkan World Cup (Arcade)

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tehkan World Cup Flyer #2226
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Tehkan World Cup Flyer #5479

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