 While the license was acquired with time to spare and was carefully planned, internal problems plagued the project's development until it could not be completed anywhere near a commercially usable date.As Mexico '86 was coming closer, U.S. Gold decided to acquire the rights of an older game, Artic Computing's 1984 title "World Cup Football", re-fit it with the properly licensed items, and market it as a revolutionary new title.However, this late effort was received with cynicism from all in the video game industry