Nintendo World Cup was made in 1990 by Technōs Japan and published for the NES by Nintendo. The record correctly places it in the Kunio-kun series — the line of games about brawling high-school students that also produced a string of sporting spin-offs.

That lineage is why this is not ordinary football. The game runs from a side view, the pitch has no boundaries in the usual sense, and opponents can be knocked flat with a slide tackle that would draw an instant red card in any real match. Rules effectively do not exist here, and that is the point.

The second pillar is the special shot. With the right run-up you can launch a strike that travels unlike a normal ball and that the keeper struggles to hold. Learning to use those shots, and more importantly to defend against them, makes up most of the game's substance.

Multiplayer matters a great deal. Against the computer it plays as a quick arcade game, but with two people it works best, because all the misconduct finally has an audience. That focus on play in one room runs through the whole Kunio-kun series.

Technōs Japan produced other sporting spin-offs from the same brand — hockey, athletics and dodgeball among them, always with the same attitude to the rules. The formula stayed consistent: take an existing sport, remove the referee, and let a cast built for street brawling get on with it.

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