How to play Formation Soccer: Human Cup '90 on Mac
Game summary
A Japan-only soccer game developed by Human for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. It was the first in the Formation Soccer series.
Formation Soccer: Human Cup '90 is a soccer game for the PC Engine that was released in Japan exclusively. It is the first of the Formation Soccer games from Human Entertainment: many of which would end up on the Super Famicom/Nintendo as "Super Formation Soccer", in a similar pattern as Human's Fire Pro Wrestling series which also became Super Fire Pro Wrestling once they started coming out on the Super Famicom. Formation Soccer uses a vertical-scrolling view of the pitch.
The game was designed and released to coincide with the 1990 World Cup event set in Italy. It features sixteen teams, though only eleven of those actually qualified for the World Cup. The player can choose between a single game Exhibition mode and a tournament "Human Cup" mode to choose between.
Teams
The following sixteen teams could be selected for use in either mode:
Italy (the hosts)
Brazil
The Netherlands
U.S.S.R.
Argentina
West Germany
Denmark (Denmark did not actually qualify for the 1990 World Cup)
England
Spain
France (France did not actually qualify for the 1990 World Cup)
Uruguay
Poland (Poland did not actually qualify for the 1990 World Cup)
Yugoslavia
USA
Mexico (Mexico was disqualified during the qualification process)
Japan (Japan did not actually qualify for the 1990 World Cup)
First released: Apr 1990
Play Formation Soccer: Human Cup '90 on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Formation Soccer: Human Cup '90 on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
Formation Soccer: Human Cup '90 installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Formation Soccer: Human Cup '90 like you would on any PC.
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