| World Cup Carnival |
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| Release Date | 1986 |
| Original Publisher | U.S. Gold Ltd (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Sport Game: Action |
| Max. Players | 8 (Turn based) |
| Original Price | £9.95 |
| Controls | Interface 2 (right), Kempston Joystick |
| Sports | Soccer |
| Tie-in Licences | World Cup '86, Mexico (Sports event) from FIFA |
| Other Platforms | Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4 |
| Average mag. score | 25.33% (3 reviews) |
| Martijn's WoS score | 23.9% (68 votes) |
Re-releases
| #1 - Erbe Software S.A. (Spain) | (1986) | ||
| * Release price: 2500.00 Ptas |
Authors/Contributors
| Donald J. Campbell (UK) | - ? | ||
| JJC | - ? |
Authors according to SPOT/SPEX
| @ AS Designs *** Data provided by SPOT/SPEX is unconfirmed. Please help us validate this information! |
Annual Awards
| 1st Least Pleasing Game - 1986 Crash Readers Awards. |
Remarks
| This game was a fiasco, since U.S. Gold basically re-released the ancient Artic game World Cup Football at twice the price. According to "The History of US Gold" by Chris Wilkins: 'At the time Ocean knew something about football with Jon Ritman's Match Day, so Woods and Ward said to Geoff: "Look, football games are really hard, let us do this. We'll get a World Cup game for you, and we'll use our Match Day code." Anyway, something happened there and theoretically Ocean were going to go away and develop the game. Three months before the World Cup we were so busy I hadn't given it much thought. So I asked Geoff if he'd seen anything of the game from Ocean, and he said "No, I'll call them up." He phoned to learn they'd done nothing on it. So we had this license, we had the World Cup coming - and we said "Sh*t we need a game." That's when we went out to every single developer in the UK. Artic were the only one who came forward and said they could do it in time.' |
Remarks
| ZXSR: A notorious release. Was Artic's 1984 release of World Cup with a few posters and wallcharts. Magazines were inundated with complaints. |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | WorldCupCarnival.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | |
| WorldCupCarnival.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (SpeedLock 1) | English |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| WorldCupCarnival.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| WorldCupCarnival.gif | 2,256 | Original | Running screen | |||
| WorldCupCarnival_Front.jpg | 1,301,631 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
| WorldCupCarnival.txt | 15,976 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| WorldCupCarnival(EN).pdf | 312,977 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_Badge.jpg | 358,069 | Original | Badge | |||
| WorldCupCarnival.jpg | 281,943 | Original | Advertisement | |||
| WorldCupCarnival_2.jpg | 105,717 | Original | Advertisement | |||
| worldcupcarnival.rzx | 0 | Original | RZX playback file | - Recorded by Jamie Angus (with rollback) | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_1986WorldCupLeagueTable.jpg | 275,846 | Original | ? | - 1986 World Cup league table | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_Competition-Back.jpg | 97,019 | Original | ? | - Competition | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_Competition-Front.jpg | 28,767 | Original | ? | - Competition | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_PictureSheet.gif | 55,998 | Original | ? | - Picture sheet | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_WorldCupFactsPoster.jpg | 379,245 | Original | ? | - World Cup facts poster | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_WorldFlags1.jpg | 156,472 | Original | ? | - World flags | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_WorldFlags2.jpg | 165,515 | Original | ? | - World flags | ||
| WorldCupCarnival_WorldFlags3.jpg | 143,756 | Original | ? | - World flags | ||
| WorldCupCarnival(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).jpg | 632,855 | #1 | Advertisement |
Magazine Reviews
| Computer Gamer | issue #16-1986/Jul | page 18 | - Review | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #30-1986/Jul | page 14 | - Review: 26% | |
| MicroHobby | issue #83-1986/Jun | page 15 | - Review - Nuevo | |
| Sinclair User | issue #52-1986/Jul | page 24 | - Review: 1/5 | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #8-1986/Aug | page 33 | - Review: 3/10 |
Magazine References
Magazine Advertisements
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #55-1986/May | page 81 | - Advert | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #56-1986/Jun | page 20 | - Full-page ad | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #14-1986/May | page 65 | - Advert | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #15-1986/Jun | page 2 | - Full-page ad | |
| Computer Gamer | issue #16-1986/Jul | page 100 | - Full-page ad | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #28-1986/May | page 115 | - Advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #29-1986/Jun | page 4 | - Full-page ad | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.5 #20-1986/May/15 special "week#3" | page 48 | - Full-page ad | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.5 #21-1986/May/22 special "week#4" | page 48 | - Full-page ad | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.5 #22-1986/May/29 special "week#5" | page 48 | - Full-page ad | |
| Sinclair User | issue #51-1986/Jun | page 46 | - Full-page ad | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #7-1986/Jul | page 37 | - Full-page ad |
Links
| MobyGames | (Information - in English) | |
| RZX Archive | (Information - in English) | |
| RZX Archive - YouTube | (Information - in English) | |
| The Tipshop | (Information - in English) | |
| Wikipedia | (Information - in English) | |
| ZX Spectrum Reviews | (Magazine Reviews) | |
| Spectrum 2.0 | (User Reviews) | |
| The TZX Vault | (Software Preservation) | |
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| ZXInfo | (ZXDB Front End) | |
| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
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