Argentina at the FIFA World Cup playmaker position was instead filled by Mario Kempes, who ended up becoming the first Argentinian to win the Golden Ball in addition to being the tournament's top scorer with 6 goals. The Dutch side was missing a superstar of their own: Johann Cruyff did not join the 1978 World Cup squads due to the aftermath of a kidnapping attempt which occurred in 1977. He only disclosed this information 30 years later. The closely contested match was influenced by a hostile atmosphere and ended with the Dutch players refusing to attend the award ceremony after Argentina grabbed the title in extra
Tecmo World Cup Soccer unchanged, the lack of support for analog control in the NES version renders it a digital-control-only game that requires almost completely different tactics. The national teams in "Tecmo World Cup Soccer" are as follows (in order, they are available to choose in game "Team Select" menu): "Tecmo World Cup Soccer", released five years after its arcade ancestor, is a direct conversion of "Tehkan World Cup" squeezed with some concessions into the smaller NES hardware. These are the principle similarities: As "Tehkan World Cup" utilized two processors for gameplay and four processors for sound, certain concessions were made to playability on