Japanese FIFA party: Kicking is the link! Oh, wait...
FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa party is wrong like drinking sellotape
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OK. FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa is a football game. You know, soccer, with a ball, a pitch, some goals, 22 men and some corner flags. How would you launch that game if you were the PR guy/gal responsible for it?
Maybe try to get Wayne Rooney or Cristiano Ronaldo to show up? Becks isn't going to the World Cup, but he'd still be a massive coup if you could persuade him to come along in exchange for a few readies.
Nah, Japan doesn't care for all that malarkey. Instead, they went for teen J-pop sensation Beckii Cruel from the Isle of Wight, cross-dressing kick-boxer Yuichiro "Jienotsu" Nagashima and former Sumo Wrestler turned failed kick-boxer, Akebono.
Two of them danced.
Now, we've been thinking about this long and hard and, for one fleeting moment, reckoned we had cracked it. The elusive link between them all? Kicking! The two gentlemen are/were kick boxers. This is a video game about kicking a ball. See? Kicking? Ball? But then we looked at Beckii's discography and found no mention of kicking.
So do tell - if you can find any logical explanation for any of the above. We're all out.
16 Apr, 2010
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Justin was a GamesRadar+ staffer for 10 years but is now a freelance writer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.


