Having read the Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania comparison threads I was inspired to start another one. I think this one is very interesting since the game engine (or how the game plays) is pretty much identical, even the music and graphics are the same although slightly enhanced for PC-Engine. No problems with scrolling like in the Ninja Gaiden.
I grew up with the NES and Nintendo World Cup so I know that game inside and out. To my suprise I was able to beat the Nekkutsu Koko Soccer in one sitting without much sweat. Pretty much every trick I learned as a kid with the NES game I was able to pull off. I'm aware that the Nintendo World Cup was a reskin of Nekkutsu High School Soccer for Famicom but I really I think that the world cup theme adds a lot of flavour. In today's perspective slightly offensive national stereotypes, the intermission tunes/pictures etc.
I don't have the Famicom cart so I wonder if the PC engine game is just a remaster of that or continuing the story where the Famicom game ended, not that it matters unless you can read japanese.
I have never really liked the other Nekkutse games but both these football games are just blast to play.