World Cup Football was advertised in Home Computer Weekly issue 85 (Well, briefly mentioned in an advert for other games) but was never released across its planned platforms of C64, Spectrum and Amstrad.
We assume it was to be some kind of management game rather than an action game, as Hill MacGibbon were known more for their educational types of titles. Could be completely wrong of course! :-)
Information is somewhat lacking at the moment for this one, and even World Of Spectrum does not have much information on the game apart from the advert scans. Hill MacGibbon did go on for some years, so was it a licence issue? Was the game by Five Ways Software?
Iain Mew got in touch to inform us that he had a commentator called Chris post on his blog post about MacGibbon’s Run for Gold that suggests World Cup Football ended up as World Cup Soccer (released by Macmillan). This seems very likely what happened – we’ll keep things open for now until further confirmation.
Contributions: Iain Mew, Chris
A commenter called Chris on my own blog post on Five Ways/Hill MacGibbon’s Run for Gold (https://superchartisland.com/run-for-gold/) suggests that World Cup Football ended up as World Cup Soccer, released by Macmillan. It sounds plausible, although I can’t find anything on that game which gives any credits for who made it.
Hi Iain, thanks very much for the heads up – just updated the page quickly. I think it must be the same game, but we’ll keep things open for now.