Nintendo World Cup 2014 ~ Japan's journey

[Green Majik]

I am trying out Baron von Lector's rom Nintendo World Cup 2014. Fun stuff!

 

I'll be posting vids of my conquest with Japan. 

[Green Majik]

Match 1: just like I remembered, Cameroon is not much of a contest.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYlywsIzLfs&feature=youtu.be

[Baron von Lector]

I sped the gameplay up a little bit compared to the original.  Nothing too dramatic, mainly running speed.  Enjoy, I look forward to your experience with the juggernaut Germans.

[Green Majik]

One of the reasons this rom is so timely: the 2014 World Cup was Germany's first since 1990, and their first since reunification. 

[Baron von Lector]

I remember the 1990 World Cup like it was yesterday.  I was living in Germany at the time, and as unsafe as it was, I remember being on a field trip in school and the bus driver shouting in excitement as he was listening to the game on a headset.

[Baron von Lector]

I just started watching your game, and I've never tried your "walking the ball into the goal" method.  90% of my goals have come off of knocking in a rebound on a blocked shot by the goalie.

[Green Majik]

I remember the 1990 World Cup like it was yesterday.  I was living in Germany at the time, and as unsafe as it was, I remember being on a field trip in school and the bus driver shouting in excitement as he was listening to the game on a headset.

That's amazing! I was lucky enough to watch two matches from this past World Cup in the presence of German fans. I got the sense that their fandom ran deep -- they were excited Germany won it all, but the fans' time together seemed to be even more about the shared experience as a community than it was about the sport itself. I found to be a greatly rewarding experience. 

 

I just started watching your game, and I've never tried your "walking the ball into the goal" method.  90% of my goals have come off of knocking in a rebound on a blocked shot by the goalie.

"Walking the ball into the goal" is an extremely effective method on the lower tier teams, but probably boring to watch. I always treat the first couple games as practice and really ramp up the score. Having just played France in the third match, I'm happy to see that the difficulty has already progressed significantly. 

[Green Majik]

Match 2: USA gets on the board first. How will the Samurai Blue respond?

 

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXeC1zqorA&feature=youtu.be

[Baron von Lector]

What do you use to record your games?

[Green Majik]

What do you use to record your games?

http://tecmobowl.org/topic/66409-tborg-presents-tsb-2016-packers-season/?p=454369

[Green Majik]

Match 4: Japan finds a late groove and sends the French packing in their 110th year of international play.

 

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QGLwgy7f4Q&feature=youtu.be

[Green Majik]

Match 4: Japan has had incredible success in the Asian Football Cup the last two decades. Can East Asian neighbor Russia dial in an upset?

 

>https://youtu.be/0FuhRF8JtmY

[Green Majik]

Match 5: Japan is on a tear. But it would be a mistake to count out Spain, who won the 2008 and 2012 European Cup, not to mention they are the DEFENDING WORLD CUP CHAMPION. (2010).

 

>https://youtu.be/VrWPMOw2k0E