It’s this system of algorithms rather than your physical dexterity that makes Tecmo Cup unique. Your success is generated through an unseen algorithm of your player’s skill level and the AI’s defensive maneuvers. Within the event screen you’re given choices of trying to dribble through the blocking players, passing the ball to a teammate, or trying to take a shot on goal. In the passing screen you can get some sense of where other players are on the field but otherwise these encounters are random. Encountering opposing players is akin to NES RPG’s like the Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy games – you don’t see enemy players coming but instead you’re randomly taken to an event screen when they come upon you. Repeat.Īfter kick off you dribble the ball up the field until you encounter opposing players, decide to pass, or take a shot at the rival goal. Robin’s Hyper Shot takes a huge chunk of guts to complete so you can’t just blast it constantly – especially later in the game where some teams have goalies that can block super shots. You have to lean heavily on Robin’s Hyper Shot to keep up with some of the game’s teams but to keep you from passing to Robin each time all your players have a finite amount of endurance, called “guts”. One team has two brothers whose special attack is to fly through the air and head in an unblockable goal. One specific aspect of Tecmo Cup that strongly reminds me of Japanese RPG’s is that the better players like Robin have super special shots – whirling, zooming shots that will score almost every time. It’s sound strategy to focus on certain players early on to max out their abilities for later games. The more you use players, the more their skills level up. Robin, being the soccer prodigy, has high values for all his skills and can pretty much do everything. A mid-fielder like Ralph is good at passing and dribbling but not shooting while a forward like Kevin is mostly good at taking shots. The players on your team vary in skill based on their positions and assigned skill values. Your team, the Razors, is led by young superstar Robin. Tecmo Cup was and is unlike any sports game I’ve ever played. I remember playing Tecmo Cup obsessively with a friend of mine on the team but we never beat it. I don’t remember how I originally got the game but since I played soccer as a kid my interest in the sport probably led my parents to see the game as a good present. One of these games in particular is Tecmo Cup: Soccer Game for the NES (I love the clarification of “Soccer Game” by the way). I’m not one to let go of these grudges and have kept a mental tally all this time. I’ve not beaten them for a variety of reasons. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.There are some games out there that have haunted me for years. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests.
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