World Cup Football & World Cup Carnival ZX Spectrum

And to close Soccerama II.....yes that's right....TWO games in one video! Why??? You scream at me, well simple, because they're exactly the same game that's why! To explain, in 1984 Artic released World Cup Football, one of the very first soccer games to be released and was a game I had as a kid. To be kind it wasn't great but it was still nice to play soccer all the same, it was just far too easy to score a goal if you used the infamous zig zag pattern. Also the player sprites are badly drawn and suffer from some of the worse cases of attribute clash ever and the music (a series of football chants such as "When The Saints Go Marching In" and "You'll Never Walk Alone") will drive you batty in no time. It really hasn't aged well at all and it won't take you long to realise you are far better off playing Match Day instead...but still it was the first, or one of, so I guess it has its place in history.... for the completely wrong reasons.

Because two year later US Gold unleashed World Cup Carnival, the official game for the Mexico 86 World Cup Finals.....by recycling Artic's World Cup Football for twice the price as well as adding posters and a badge to the packaging, the rotters! Sure it includes teams from the 86 World Cup, sure it added a training mode where you save penalties and other stuff, sure they took out the music but it still doesn't hide that it's the VERY same game, the players are the same, the gameplay is the same, the attribute clash is the same, it's still piss easy to score a goal with the zig zag technique, it's the EXACT same as World Cup Football.

Their excuse was that they had a World Cup game in the works but it was so terrible they couldn't dare release it, what's more, time was fastly running out and there was no way they could have made a new one from scratch, therefore leaving them to recycle World Cup Football instead....which means there are actually TWO versions of World Cup Carnival....although don't get your hopes up over it because I doubt we'll ever see this "second" version....I mean it doesn't exist does it, it's just lies, lies and more lies. And come to think of it this "terrible" game would have been better off releasing instead of recycling code from a soccer game released two bloody years earlier.

Not surprisingly as a result of their scheme, World Cup Carnival was universally panned and is widely considered one of the worst games ever released on the ZX Spectrum, one of the worst soccer games known to mankind and one of the biggest scams in gaming history.

And so that ends my batch of soccer uploads at long last...and I think it is without question I saved the very worst for very last.

Видео World Cup Football & World Cup Carnival ZX Spectrum канала Spectrum Nostalgia